Bookmarks for 7 Dec 2009
- 1.3 Radically opening up data and promoting transparency
UK government opens up even more… "'Public data' are 'government-held non-personal data that are collected or generated in the course of public service delivery'.Our public data principles state that:
* Public data will be published in reusable, machine-readable form [...and much more...]" (government data open_data )
- AJAX from Scratch: Implementing Mutual Exclusion in JavaScript — Developer.com
Ways of avoiding potential race condition problems in Javascript. (javascript concurrency algorithms ) - How to: Map your data easily | News | guardian.co.uk
Kevin Anderson on doing great things with maps: "Many of the first data mashups involved plotting data on a map, and it's never been easier to map data with a new generation of tools" (infographics mapping tools tips ) - js-test-driver – Project Hosting on Google Code
"The goal of JsTestDriver is to build a JavaScript test runner which:1. easily integrates with continuous builds systems and
2. allows running tests on multiple browsers quickly to ease TDD style development." (javascript testing development tools frameworks ) - John Resig – Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (dynaTrace Ajax)
"After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax, I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. [...] dynaTrace provides some information that I've never seen before – in any tool on any browser." (javascript performance tools profiling internet_explorer testing )
