Author Archives: jiren

StreamTable.js – The next generation search filter

Posted on April 23, 2013

So, you think you should search data? Or filter it?  And now, stream … what? Searching for data has a performance price – we need heavy duty server resources and have delayed responses. See the LinkedIn search. Filtering for data … Continue reading →

Posted in Javascript, Search | Tagged , , , , | 14 Comments

filter.js – Client side search filtering using JSON and jQuery

Posted on September 28, 2011

Speed for search result filtering is critical. Its fine for site users to wait for some time (maybe a few seconds) to load the search results but after that filtering better be fast otherwise people lose interest. To give a … Continue reading →

Posted in Javascript | Tagged , , | 204 Comments

Pro tip: Increase webpage performance using sprite, data-uri and jammit

Posted on January 16, 2011

For quite some time at Josh Software, we have been concentrating on improving backend server performance. You can read about load testing and bench-marking and improving upload performance using nginx upload module. This post is about improving frontend performance by … Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Tagged , , , , , , | 23 Comments