Simon Willison’s Weblog

Hot Code Loading in Node.js. Blaine Cook’s patch for Node.js that enables Erlang-style hot code loading, so you can switch out your application logic without restarting the server or affecting existing requests. This could make deploying new versions of Node applications trivial. I’d love to see a Node hosting service that allows you to simply upload a script file and have it execute on the Web.

# 31st January 2010, 1:57 pm / blaine-cook, deployment, erlang, javascript, node, nodejs

Dojo 1.4.1 vs jQuery 1.4.2pre on Taskspeed. John Resig’s reponse. When JavaScript libraries compete on performance, everybody wins.

# 29th January 2010, 2:19 pm / benchmarks, dojo, javascript, john-resig, jquery, performance

Dojo: Still Twice As Fast When It Matters Most. Alex Russell shows how Dojo out-performs jQuery on the TaskSpeed benchmark, which attempts to represent common tasks in real-world applications and has had code that have been optimised by the development teams behind each of the libraries.

# 28th January 2010, 10:40 pm / alex-russell, benchmarks, dojo, javascript, jquery, performance, taskspeed

jQuery 1.4 Released. With comprehensive release notes. Huge performance improvements and a ton of very sensible enhancements to the API—far too many to summarise.

# 14th January 2010, 10:37 pm / javascript, jquery, releasenotes