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Tag Archives: closure

Performance matters

I just read this on an email from a Google’s Closure developer: Adding runtime checks for invalid usage is something we have policy against. It adds to the code size as well as to the runtime cost. I totally agree. Developers should be responsible for their usage of APIs or third party libraries, while these [...]

Tech talks at LEVEL Studios

Today we have a Tech Meeting at LEVEL Studios and I’ll be doing a quick demo of some tools we have been using in our current project, to help during our development: Using Closure Compiler to detect Javascript syntax errors and remove warnings. Using QUnit to test a REST api The power of WebSockets and [...]

More updates to Mooml coming soon

I’ve been very busy lately, both with spaniards.es and at work. Too much stuff to do. Nevertheless, I’ve been working lately on a version of Mooml that does not rely on with/eval. The problem of using eval (which has bad reputation but is used every time we parse JSON -unless you use this- or load [...]

Dojo y yo

Back in November 2008 I had a chance to work with Dojo on a project for Cisco WebEx. I didn’t like it at all. I was used to the simplicity of jQuery and Mootools and I couldn’t understand how Dojo had been designed so complicated. Well, one year later I just realized that it is [...]

Things to do

To do list: Try Appcelerator (downloaded.. don’t like it very much, have to spend more time with it) Install iPhone SDK 3.2 (downloading installing…) Study LinkedIn API Study Twitter API Take a look at YQL Play with Google Closure JS library Play with Dojo JS library That’s it for now. Let’s see if I can [...]

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Eneko Alonso is a software engineer and UI developer with more than eight years of experience in software and web development. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California and works at LEVEL Studios.

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