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Main on January 25th, 2011 by Pingdom
Building websites and web applications today is not only about being a great programmer, it’s even more important to be a smart programmer. This means to re-use existing code and applications when possible instead of re-inventing the wheel.
Open source has been around for ages and much of the web is built using it. Every developer knows about Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP).
But what about all the other open source projects out there? As a web developer you can save lots of time or optimize the performance of your applications by using many of the other projects that are available.
Lets take a look on what’s out there, free for everyone to use.
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Main on May 11th, 2010 by Pingdom
If you’re using jQuery, a good thing you can do is to use the jQuery file hosted on one of the three public content delivery networks (CDNs) provided by Google, Microsoft and Edgecast (via MediaTemple).
This has several benefits:
- You offload your own servers.
- You increase the odds that the file is cached, since other sites will be linking to the same file.
- A CDN will probably deliver the file faster than you can.
So which of these free CDN options will give you the best performance?
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Main on March 26th, 2010 by Pingdom
Five years ago, no one had heard about jQuery. It was just an idea in the back of Javascript guru John Resig’s head. Today, jQuery is by far the most popular Javascript library in the world and is used by over 28% of all websites on the internet.
jQuery is open source, web developers love it, it’s been embraced by a slew of big companies, and is close to becoming a de facto standard for website development. It doesn’t just have the support of the open source developer community behind it, it’s even received official support from Microsoft.
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Main on June 11th, 2008 by Pingdom
Which Javascript frameworks are the most common? To answer that question, we here at Pingdom have examined a set of almost 200 popular websites to see if they use a Javascript framework, and in that case which framework they have chosen. The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top [...]
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