World Cup Frenzy Too

The Germany - England match was a treat to watch. Germany played a fast paced attacking game and England helped them with having very little defending. The Argentina - Mexico game was also tight. But Argentina came out all guns blazing with a smashing second goal from the right foot of Tevez. Yesterday's Brazil - Chile game was wonderful as well. Chile really played great even though they were 3 goals behind. They played aggressive and attacked. But the Brazilians were too much for them. A great team performance complimented with extravagant passing and finishing saw Brazil win by 3 goals to nil. Im eagerly waiting for the Spain - Portugal match today. Torres would want to come out and exhibit his skills, period.

World Cup Frenzy

We, at our flat, constantly follow the FIFA World Cup 2010 with great enthusiasm. Most of us support Argentina, 1 Italy and 1 Brazil. We saw 4 matches up until now. The France v/s Uruguay match was a total waste of time. South Africa proved to to be a great match for Mexico and managed to draw a match which was thought to be Mexico's. South Korea destroyed a poor Greece by 2 Goals to register the first win for a team in the World Cup 2010. Argentina could have easily scored 6 goals in the match against Nigeria if it were not for the Nigerian Goal Keeper Enyeama. Great work from Nigeria anyway and they would give South Korea a run for their money. 

Javascript Debug

I started working with Javascript some years back and at those times to get hold of a js issue was hard. Then came firebug. The tool analyzed the js stuff, gave a console where we could assign new Javascript variables, call functions etc. The Dom tab gave the variables currently declared in the DOM so that analyzing a variable got easier. The Net tab gave all the access made by the page. This included the images, css, js files and even XHR ! Debugging a script became easier with the Script tab.

But that was not enough, as for all things. YSlow came along which gave you a precise idea of the stuff that made your web page slow. Page Speed from Google also gave a great idea of the same. Cookies was introduced which let you view a cookie and modify it.

The debugging in IE was also some thing that developers looked forward to. Developer Bar gave many of the options that Firebug gave. Companion JS is a great tool that let you debug Javascript. Fiddler let you act as a proxy between IE and the server so that you could change a request to fetch a file (js/css) from the local disk.

Smush.it is something that I got to know recently which gives you a compressed version of images thus increasing the response time for a web site. Javascript compression and obfuscation are techniques that we use every time for the js response time reduction.

Many stuff to keep in mind and many to implement to create a great web app.