Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Joe Hewitt Firebug power user demo
Category: Utility
The video shows you the subtle features within:
- Highlighting the DOM that you know your Ajax call will eventually update, and see Firebug showing you what is updated
- The profiler at work: the difference between time spent only in that function, versus including recursive calls into other functions
- Tying into the profiler from your code
- Tips and tricks for the inspector, profiler, network, and more
It is always interesting to see the creator of a tool show you how they use it.
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Hello Dion,
Not working on my side (tested it from two different PCs / network).
Now ok. At least I can tell sound is crap. ;-)
Sorry about that.
The video currently shown here is from last year, I think they mistakenly put the older one up. There was a newer one filmed last week on the 1.0 release. Until they update this page you can see it on the YUI Theater.
Just when you thought Firebug couldn’t get more beautiful…you learn more about it. Thanks for posting this Dion!
The video of last week’s presentation, “Welcome to Firebug 1.0,” can be found on the YUIBlog. Note that there was some audio hissing introduced in the transcoding on Yahoo Video, but the audio (and video picture) is clearer on the downloadable version available from that blog article. -Eric
I just don’t understand how a guy can talk about such an interesting subject and yet be as dull as this guy. Brilliance, it seems here, has nothing to do with communication skills.
What I don’t understand is how he kept himself from interjecting “Man, I’m one smart mofo!” after every few sentences. If I created Firebug (then made it better, and then better still and then released a version that made the other versions look like toys), I’d be wearing a t-shirt and baseball cap that said “One smart mofo” and had a picture of me on it.
Yes, people would think I was nuts. But I’d be like “screw you, I invented Firebug!”
I think we should all be glad Joe Hewitt created Firebug and not me.
Do you think his “um” count be higher than palosi’s blink count?
sorry – just had to bang him a bit, you know bring him down to our level. ;-)
awesome, –love any and all the good Firebug references that are available. This is good stuff. I really want to become better with this great tool. Thanks for posting this info, Dion!
Argus: I’d like to see how well you do presenting something technical at a Yahoo or Google. Wheres the vidcast from the last presentation you gave so we can take notes?
Dorks. All of you!
var db = new DeuscheBag;
db.name = “Ajaxian Commenter”;
db.say(“Blah Blah – I am so smart!”);
db.die();
db.reincarnate(“frog”);
db.die();
db.reincarnate(“worm”);
db.die();
Powerful tool. And Joe Hewitt is so handsome.
Well done, very powerful web developing tools, especially for javascript!