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[pic from Christian Hellman's “Reclaiming HTML5” talk at SuperVan JS mini con]

In my last post, HTML5 Canvas with Dave Shea, I mentioned the abundance of tech talent in Vancouver, and how all of us Vancouverites benefit from their presence. Here's a case in point: not two days after Dave's presentation, the VanJS Meetup group presented SuperVan JS: 5 speakers on a Saturday afternoon, on all things JS.

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CivicActions has been working with Google's “Make the Web Faster” project team to make some (last minute) improvements that make Drupal 7 faster.

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I was extremely pleased with my DrupalCon Paris session on jQuery for Designers and Themers. It was a great success – my best session yet. UPDATE: Watch the video here. You can see the slides at tinyurl.com/jQuery-Designers and download the sample theme code from drupal.org/project/jq4dat. I made a couple of references to blog posts and work I've done with jQuery during the session:

• I wrote a jQuery dashboard plugin that uses jQuery UI's Sortable library to make an iGoogle-like dashboard with an example server-side implementation.
• Calling drupal_get_js() and drupal_get_css() from page preprocess functions creates an unnecessary performance hit. This blog post discusses a technique that allows javascript and CSS to be added in the page preprocess function without needing to call drupal_get_js() and drupal_get_css().

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Last week the Witness Hub was updated with new enhancements and features -- most obviously, the Hub Map is now also on the home page!

Here is a video demonstration:

This feature required asynchronous loading of the Hub Map, including it's full-screen switcher and chunk marker loader code and features, on-load of the 'Map' tab (a Hub-customized version of jQuery tabs).

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The node review module is quite handy, but I've been developing another module for one of our projects.