The Best of the Week (Jan. 24): HTML5 Zone

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the HTML5 Zone (Jan. 24 to Jan. 30). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. Modular JavaScript in the Browser with CommonJS Compiler

With the advance of HTML5, formerly static web-pages are turning into sophisticated web-applications. Now we expect JavaScript code to be scalable and modular. But how when JavaScript has no built-in facilities to combine distinct scripts?

2. 10+ Handy and Reusable jQuery Code Snippets

Over the years, jQuery became a must-use for every web developer. This article includes a series of 10+ handy jQuery code snippets you may save and copy to use at your own discretion. These snippets are super easy to adapt to match your own script.

3. Warning about ColdFusion 10 and ORM Logging

A difference between ORM-logging in ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 10 results in a bloated console log that is far larger than it needs to be. You can take these steps and read about how to change to a rolling file appender.

4. Getting Started With Node.js and Visual Studio

This is first in a series of post dedicated to helping you get up to speed with Node.js. This post will not make any attempts to explain why node is interesting or why you should learn it. Even if you know node, this post will have value in that it will show you how to work with node using Visual Studio.

5. Methods for Optimizing AngularJS

Developers at Scalyr talk about ways to optimize AngularJS framework for use in their log monitoring tool. By using four custom directives, developers were able to decrease "Next Page" log response time from 1.2 seconds to 25 milliseconds.