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JS.Class and Helium updates

In Helium, JS.Class, JavaScript on 9 March 2010 with 1 comment

Just a quickie to let you know I’ve pushed out new minor releases of JS.Class and Helium tonight. The updates in JS.Class 2.1.4 center around a totally rewritten package manager that uses an event cycle to trigger dependency downloads instead of polling packages to find out when they’re ready to load; this should make a [...]

Load everything asynchronously

In Functional, Helium, JS.Class, JavaScript, Metaprogramming on 18 December 2009 with no comments

A couple weeks ago there was rather a lot of excitement over the fact that Google released a new Analytics snippet that loads the tracking library asynchronously. This is indeed great news, for reasons pored over in the aforelinked articles. But let’s take a closer look at Google’s implementation: var _gaq = _gaq || []; [...]

Helium: a package server for JavaScript

In Git, Helium, JS.Class, JavaScript, Metaprogramming, Ojay, PackR, Ruby, Yahoo! UI on 2 November 2009 with 7 comments

Last week, my former employer theOTHERmedia open-sourced the last project I worked on there: Helium. It’s a web application that lets you deploy JavaScript packages from Git and load them on-demand into any website by including a single script tag. There’s been a lot of innovation in JavaScript deployment recently, and Helium fits a particular [...]