That's fantastic news, Mattias - great job!

On 1/3/07, Mattias Hising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today we released a new version of PokerRoom.com, the worlds 3rd
> largest poker site. The site has approximately 100,000 - 200,000
> visits a day and at peak we serve poker games to 25,000 - 30,000
> users.
>
> The new front-end platform is running on PHP 5 with the Smarty
> Template Engine (http://smarty.php.net) for templating, presentation
> plugins and front-end caching. The old version of PokerRoom used a lot
> of legacy javascript code and maintenance was hell. In order to avoid
> this we started looking for a javascript library that was:
>
> 1. Small in order to decrease download-time and minimize used bandwidth
> 2. Easy to start using
> 3. Well documented
> 4. Had a big community
> 5. Were extensible
> 6. Where fun to use and easy to teach PHP-developers.
>
> We evaluated jquery, dojo, mochikit and prototype+scriptaculous. In
> the end we did not find any library/framework that could match the
> jquery library. The community (this list mainly) has been a treasure
> for a lot of answers and we have had very nice support by Christian
> "Tablesorter" Bach as well.
>
> We use jquery for
>
> - Client Validation (input verification and ajax-calls for business
> verification) (http://www.pokerroom.com/signup.php)
> - Inline Popups (for avoiding popups to 90% and not break processes)
> plugin: thickbox
> - Ajax-posting of forms (send message, create gift voucher) plugin: form.js
> - Rewriting urls (add external logging and create a popup (the 10%))
> - Generate dynamic content (validation ) using Michael Gearys DOM-creator
> - Sorting tables with Maestro Bachs Tablesorter plugin.
> - A lot more
>
> We will start using jquery more heavily after this release. Thanks to
> the community for discussing and creating this great piece of library.
>
> http://www.pokerroom.com
> http://www.casinoroom.com
>
> Mattias Hising (http://www.hising.net)
> Front-End Architect PokerRoom.com / bwin Games (http://www.bwin.com)
>
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