Ryan Tomayko

CDN Catalog —

We should be doing more of this:

If you’re building a modern website then you’ll be needing some javascript libraries and css.

Rather than hosting these common libraries on your own server, you should Use a Content Delivery Network. Lucky for you Google, Microsoft and Yahoo host a range of popular javascript and css which you can directly link to for free. This saves your bandwidth and speeds up your website load time.

The great thing about the shared CDN approach is that the resources are cached once and reused across all sites, often without even making a validation request.

I’d seen the JavaScript libraries before but I’d never considered using this approach with CSS. The YUI CSS reset is a perfect example of where a shared CDN provides the most benefit. If every site that employed the basic CSS reset used this URL, it would effectively be baked into the browser with no overhead after the first request.

Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage —

Nice looking pure JS charting library:

I’ve been seeing more and more of these charting libs lately and they all look great.

Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure —

Interesting. I’ve been using the jquery-1.2.3.js hosted on google code for a few months now. Maybe I should have read the TOS…

jQuery evangelism —

I need to give jQuery a serious look. Prototype’s Ajax.Request stuff is crippled (no PUT or DELETE) to the point of being worthless; the jQuery selector magic looks a lot more intriguing than what you get with Prototype, too.