December 2009
9 posts
“But chances are, you know that, and don’t need to be convinced of the wonder of...”
– Alex Iskander on the new SC.Animatable
SproutCore 1.0.1041: New SproutCore, New Core Team...
I pushed a new gem today. SproutCore 1.0.1041/1.0.1042 (both build numbers point to the same release due to a bug in Gemcutter) is mostly a maintenance release with lots of minor bug fixes, but it also includes experimental support for an exciting new feature called SC.Animatable.
SC.Animatable is a mixin you can apply to a view which will then automatically animate certain properties on the...
Runtime-Sets →
New docs on using Sets and IndexSets in SproutCore. I’m working on a longer post describing how these two data structures works. They are super efficient ways to keep track of queues and indices that actually make much of the great performance in SproutCore possible.
Great tools to add to your own tool belt.
Roots Deliver Nutrients →
If you’ve wanted to implement push in your SproutCore app, give Root’s a look by the ever amazing Alex Iskander.
Cut Your JavaScript Load Time 90% with Deferred...
In Faster Loading Throug eval() a introduced a new technique for improving load time of JavaScript applications called deferred evaluation. As a follow up to the micro-benchmarks I performed in that test, I wanted to see how much deferred evaluation could improve load time in a full end-to-end test.
Background
In case you didn’t read the other post, deferred evaluation is a technique that...
SproutCore at Velocity Fall 09 →
Just a reminder - I will be talking about some of the new loading techniques we are working on for SproutCore 1.1 at Velocity Only Fall next Tuesday, Dec 8.
The conference is online - which means you can attend from your own desk. Why travel when you know you’d just spend the time hacking on your laptop anyway. Hack and listen from the comfort of your own desk!
If you’re interested...
#sproutcore on IRC
The IRC channel has been really active lately on #sproutcore. SproutCore is used in enough places now that there is usually a real expert with a lot of experience available to talk to you these days.
If you need some help or just want to introduce yourself, drop on by!
#sproutcore on freenode.net