#abaaso

[attackio]

abaaso 4.0.0 - MutationObserver

I've implemented the MutationObserver in pre-4.0 on github, with a fallback to DOM Mutation Events for observer garbage collection (to avoid memory leaks). Right now I'm passing the "raw" Mutation Records which are like audit events. There's value in the entire history as well as refining it to a digest. Elements fire "change" events as a result. You can add a "change" listener to document to watch for added or removed Elements. abaaso

[attackio]

Some ideas for abaaso 4.0.0

The first thing I'd like to do is drop support for IE8. The second thing I'd like to do is move DataStores into WebWorkers; I'm sure moving that processing out of the UI thread will allow for greater responsiveness while complex sorts are occurring. I'm also considering dropping the syntactic sugar, or at least making it a lazy load feature which is disabled by default. If I removed the hooks entirely, the nature of abaaso would be closer to jQuery, where results of $() would return an instance of abaaso, which has the current namespace decorated on the prototype. This is likely to happen for future proofing the framework.

Updated: Surprisingly this is mostly done; I just need to look at how I can I use WebWorkers without losing convenience of the local DataStore.

[attackio]

abaaso gets Channels!

Channels is a concept from CSP (I'm reading up on this, bare with me), which holds a message so a process/machine can "take" it asap; it only holds a single message at any moment, and returns either a "continue" or "pause" command. If you try to "put" something in the Channel while it's occupied, you'll receive a "pause", if the channel was empty you'll receive a "continue" meaning the channel is now occupied. You can instantiate a channel with `$.channel()`, which has "put" & "take" methods. I've used Promises (Deferreds) for the async nature of this implementation, because `yield` won't be available in browsers for a while. I've also extracted this implementation, and released it as a node module named cqueue. abaaso

[attackio]

abaaso 3.10.3 - Much faster data sorting

This release continues the theme of 3.10, with a rewritten `data.sort()` for `DataStores`. The new sort leverages `Array.sort()` by generating a decision tree (function) on the fly, in lieu of a more complex implementation. The original postman sort scaled well compared to methods that included walking the keys while iterating the records (Big O!), but it was simply destroyed in a benchmark against Array.sort(). I assume the V8 engineers have put a lot of effort into making that method fast. abaaso

[attackio]

abaaso 3.10.0

This release features a rewritten Promises/A+ implementation, which is about 10x faster and much more competitive compared to other implementations. This refactoring naturally led to rewriting the DataStore IO methods, which was needed, as they've been growing since the beta and where originally Observer oriented. I dropped about 500 lines of code and gained a significant amount of speed. abaaso

[attackio]

turtle.io 0.11.13 / abaaso 3.9.4

These versions fix a Server to Server 304 bug, and in general worked the kinks out of the Etag cache. I'm seeing 0-5ms response time on a local server handling cached Etags, so on a fast cloud, like Joyent, turtle.io could handle a huge amount of transactions/s. abaaso turtle.io

[attackio]

abaaso 3.9.0

This release brings great new features! The initial version of math has been introduced, which has some basic functions used to calculate coordinates; this will likely grow during the 3.9.x life cycle. Other notable changes are: - Changing DataStore instances such that this.events is false by default - Created client.scroll() & element.scrollTo() which return Deferreds so you can easily chain functionality once the scrolling as completed - Refactored element.create() to accept HTML strings as the type parameter and utilize element.frag() - Refactored client.size() to be lazy loaded & to utilize documentElement if available - Updated client.mobile() & client.tablet() - Removed resize listener on window - Created client.scrollPos() for easy look up - Created math subclass - Created math.bezier(), math.dist(), & math.sqr() - Decorating math on Math for sugar - Refactored utility.fib() to use array.fib() by default and added an optional second parameter to trigger recursive behavior - Moved some methods around internally - Fixed LICENSE - Fixing a regression in utility.clone() that affected only IE8

[attackio]

Started working on new publishing platform "Let It Be Known"

Let It Be Known, or libk for short, is a side project I just started working on today. Since Yahoo purchased tumblr, I've been considering alternative platforms for my words, and I just haven't found one I like, so I'm going to make one instead. The core application is going to be an API server, and then the front-end will be a separate project, allowing anyone to write new clients for the API in the future. I'm hoping to have a prototype up and running by the weekend.