Twitter Engineering: Introducing Flight: a web application framework

Introducing Flight: a web application framework

Last year we rolled out a major reimplementation of the Twitter website. In addition to shifting the rendering of our page content to the server (which achieved significant performance gains), we re-envisioned the entire client-side infrastructure with a clean, robust and easy-to-learn framework which we call Flight. Today we’re making Flight available to the open source community under the liberal MIT license as a framework for structuring web applications.

Whether you use Flight as the JavaScript framework for your next web project, or just as source for new ideas, we look forward to learning from diverse perspectives via community feedback and contributions on GitHub.

via Twitter Engineering: Introducing Flight: a web application framework.

jQuery Enlightenment | by Cody Lindley | 1st Edition | based on jQuery 1.3.2

A book for jQuery developers who have surpassed the introductory concepts

via jQuery Enlightenment | by Cody Lindley | 1st Edition | based on jQuery 1.3.2.

Just read this book cover to cover over the weekend.  Excellent guidance although not fully current with jQuery 1.7+.  Really like the use of code snippets in jsbin.com as well.

USA Docs – Bootstrap 2.1 Responsive Reference Site

Check out my new reference site USA Docs. It has copies of the USA founding documents for reference and was built using Twitter Bootstrap 2.1 and responsive design.  Runs in online or offline mode on all platforms including:  iPhone, Android, iPad, and modern browsers.

USA Docs Home

Dropbox Rewrote Its Entire Browser-Side Codebase In 1 Week

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The engineering team at Dropbox re-wrote its browser-side codebase one week last July, according to a post on the Dropbox tech blog. The rewrite was done to translate all of its JavaScript into a language called CoffeeScript.

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Going to check out js2coffee this weekend. Playing with Spine currently and liking it.