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jQuery.imageLoader 1.0 Released
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 9 commentsA while ago I wrote an article on how to dynamically load images using jquery. This has turned out to be one of my most popular posts and I got a lot of feedback on it. As a follow-up I decided to package it up as a real-life jquery plugin and release it into the [...]
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Load Your Ads Last
Posted on November 19th, 2009 2 commentsNobody likes ads but we can all agree they are a necessary component of doing business online. I recently had some experience dealing with adify, a aggregating ad platform which pipes in banners from a multitude of sources some with questionable practices in regards to loading performance. I had just launched a beatifully crafted website that employed all the tricks in the book for quick page loads and it was snappy… until we embedded the ad code. I like to load my images asynchronously and I like to execute javascript only once the document has finished loading so imagine the pain of patiently watching little animated gif spinners swirling away for as long as 6-30 seconds because the browser is choking on javascript from the banner ads in the middle of the page. Normally the solution would be to fix the javascript, but being a third party ad network, the embedded code was far beyond my control, so clearly this needed rethinking. I needed to figure out how to load the ads asynchronously as well.
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eROI releases Moonit into the wild
Posted on September 14th, 2009 2 commentsAfter months of development, and over a year of brainstorming, Moonit LLC unveiled moonit.com at TechCrunch50 2009 today. As the primary back end developer for this site I felt compelled to be a huge cheerleader for this site as it is the latest example of the incredible talent of the developers, designers and managers at eroi. In [...]
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Asynchronous Image Loading with jQuery
Posted on April 9th, 2009 28 commentsI thought it would make for a good change of pace to switch gears from back end development to front end development. So far I’ve focused primarily on php development which makes sense since that is my job here at eROI. There are plenty of opportunities to get my hands dirty doing javascript development, and [...]
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