Web Dev Digest Episode 4
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Welcome to the Web Dev Digest. 
This is episode number four, for Monday, July second, 2007.
I'm your host, Ara Pehlivanian.

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Hello and welcome the show.

Firebug for iPhone
The world's most beloved web development tool is already available for use on the iPhone. Joe Hewitt creator of the popular Firefox extension Firebug, has put together a special version of the tool especially for use on the new Apple device. Rather than force you to debug directly on the iPhone, Hewitt has set up a Python web server that acts as a proxy between it and your main development machine. That way, you can work on your full sized keyboard and monitor while testing on the device.


Optimizing Ajax on Rails
Shanti Braford of Sprout it dot com has written an article on Vitamin called "Five ways to optimize Ajax in Ruby on Rails". In it he targets five possible sources of latency including the database, the app server and the web server. Though the server side code examples are in Ruby, the optimization principles are language agnostic and worth taking a look at.


iPhone Safari notes via Ajaxian
Ajaxian has picked up on Abe Fettig's "iPhone Safari notes" blog post where he details several issues he's discovered with Safari on the newly christened Apple device. Notable among his findings is that most mouse events don't work, or work incorrectly.


jQuery 1.1.3
A new version of jQuery has been released with an incredible eight hundred percent speed improvement while maintaining the same twenty kay footprint. Version one point one point three includes over eighty bug fixes, blazing fast DOM traversal, and rewritten event and effects systems. The next and last version of the one point one branch is slated to be released in late July.


Mashing up Microformats
Jeremy Keith has written an eye opening piece on mashing up Microformats. If you've ever wanted to expand on them because they didn't do what you wanted them to, read his article first. In it he illustrates how to use existing formats together to overcome many of their incorrectly assumed shortcomings.


Adaptive Path's UX Week
The schedule for Adaptive Path's Washington D.C. User Experience Week is now final. Speakers include Deborah Adler from Target, Jan Chipchase from Nokia and the hundred dollar laptop interface design team. Register before July thirteenth for a discount rate.

Other Events
Creative commons salon will be taking place on July eleventh in San Francisco
The Ajax Experience West will be taking place on the twenty seventh July, also in San Francisco
And the Adobe AIR bus tour will be making a stop in LA on July sixteenth


Outtro
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You've been listening to the Web Dev Digest. The show where we look back on the day's web development news.
 This was episode number four, for Monday, July second, 2007.
Show notes with links to the news covered in this episode can be found on ara pehlivanian dot com.