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Can ActionScript really be Faster Than JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 15

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:15:53 GMT

Can ActionScript really be Faster Than JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 15

By Manuel Lemos

Adobe is still claiming that ActionScript (used in Flash) is faster than JavaScript. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal with the guest Zach Kession on the episode 15 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

On the Flash versus JavaScript matter they discussed the probably reasons for the difference of performance and smoothness of animations with Impress.js versus Prezi.

They also debate whether using CoffeeScript can really benefit the productivity of JavaScript developers, as well the benefits of using Underscore.js to manipulate data sets.

JavaScript Zeitgeist 2011 - What JavaScript Developers have been Searching for in 2011?

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:45:23 GMT

JavaScript Zeitgeist 2011 - What JavaScript Developers have been Searching for in 2011?

By Manuel Lemos

The JavaScript Zeitgeist is an initiative meant to determine what JavaScript developers have been more interested in the recent times.

The JSClasses site has just computed and published the top trending searches of 2011.

Read this article to learn what are those trends of the JavaScript world.

Can JavaScript Totally Replace Flash Now? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 13

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:44:45 GMT

Can JavaScript Totally Replace Flash Now? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 13

By Manuel Lemos

Now that Adobe has given up for the development of the Flash plug-in for mobile browsers, many users want them to go ahead and cease Flash development completely, as HTML 5 capable browsers can do most with JavaScript APIs of what can be done with Flash.

The question is: can JavaScript APIs really do all that can be done with Flash? This was the main topic of the episode 13 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal, along with the guest, Dino Gambone, a Web developer enthusiast JavaScript based games.

They also cover the recent capability of Googlebot to execute JavaScript to crawl Facebook comments, the ScriptCover extension for performing JavaScript code coverage and animation timeline visual editing with Timeline.js.

Listen to the podcast or read to the audio transcript now to know more about these topics of discussion.

Official JavaScript Logo, Google Dart, Amazon Silk, Jison parser generator - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 12

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:34:54 GMT

Official JavaScript Logo, Google Dart, Amazon Silk, Jison parser generator - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 12

By Manuel Lemos

Could Google Dart language be a better alternative language than JavaScript?

Will new languages like CoffeeScript emerge using the Jison JavaScript parser generator?

Will the new JavaScript logo proposal be adopted by the whole JavaScript community?

Will Amazon Silk browser provide a faster Web experience for Amazon Kindle Fire tablet users?

These and other topics are discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 12 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript here.

Single Page Apps Trend, Top JavaScript Developers in Every Country, Multi-threading for Node.js - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 11

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:45:10 GMT

Single Page Apps Trend, Top JavaScript Developers in Every Country, Multi-threading for Node.js - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 11

By Manuel Lemos

Single Page Apps are becoming more and more a trend since the introduction of of the Hash Bang (#!) convention in the URLs that makes AJAX application pages crawlable by Google and other search engines that follow the convention. JavaScript frameworks that help building single page apps is one of several topic that Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal cover in the Lately in JavaScript episode 11 podcast.

They also talk about a new initiative to distinguish the top JavaScript developers in every country in the JS Classes site, as well a new extension to add multithreading support to Node.js, PhoneGap to become an Apache project, and more.

Listen to the podcast or read to the transcript to learn about these and other JavaScript topics of interest.

Sprite 3D, Codecademy, Boxed 2D, Twitter Bootstrap - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 10

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:38:05 GMT

Sprite 3D, Codecademy, Boxed 2D, Twitter Bootstrap - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 10

By Manuel Lemos

On episode 10 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal comment on some of the more interesting JavaScript libraries and initiatives released lately like Sprite 3D, Codecademy, Boxed 2D, Twitter Bootstrap toolkit.

They also comment on the latest enhancements of the JSClasses site, which just completed 1 year of age, as well the IndieConf 2011 independent developers conference event and the upcoming visit of Michael to Russia.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to learn more about these JavaScript topics.

SiteApps, Selenium 2, Node.js on Windows, JSMad and PDFKit - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 9

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:33:36 GMT

SiteApps, Selenium 2, Node.js on Windows, JSMad and PDFKit - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 9

By Manuel Lemos

On the Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 9, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal have as guest Arturs Sosins, a top contributor of many interesting JavaScript objects in the JSClasses site, to discuss some of the most interesting news of in the JavaScript world.

They cover SiteApps, a marketplace of JavaScript Web applications, Selenium testing framework version 2 release, the new Node.js version now also available on Windows, JSMad JavaScript MP3 decoding library and PDFKit library for generating PDF documents using Node.js.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript now.

Google+ to Embed 3rd Party JavaScript Apps using Google Caja

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:48:43 GMT

Google+ to Embed 3rd Party JavaScript Apps using Google Caja

By Manuel Lemos

Google social network was just opened and the expectation is that it also allow embedding 3rd party apps like Facebook.

On the Lately in JavaScript Podcast episode 8 (recorded before Google+ opened) Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss the eventual support to embed Google+ Apps written in JavaScript using Google-Caja project to guarantee the security of the Apps without relying on slow loading iframes.

They also discuss the recent launch of the PDF.js project which allows rendering PDF documents using pure JavaScript code.

Additionally, they also comment on the new feature in JSClasses site which allows to easily import large JavaScript packages from version control repositories for publication in the site.

Is JavaScript going to replace PHP? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 7

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:50:24 GMT

Is JavaScript going to replace PHP? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 7

By Manuel Lemos

So it seems that recently Douglas Crockford of Yahoo commented they are considering to replace PHP with Node.js based JavaScript for server side Web applications.

On episode 7 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal have Zachary Kessin, author of the Programming HTML 5 Applications book, to debate whether it makes sense to drop PHP for JavaScript on the server side.

They also discuss other JavaScript related topics of interest like the polemic on whether Firefox is better than Chrome for Web developers, and sources of interesting news about the JavaScript world.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript below.

Attract more JavaScript contributors by becoming a fan of JSClasses at Facebook

Wed, 18 May 2011 18:12:28 GMT

Attract more JavaScript contributors by becoming a fan of JSClasses at Facebook

By Manuel Lemos

The JSClasses site has been growing at nice increasing pace but it would be better if more and more JavaScript objects were submitted to the site.

You can help by making the site more visible for instance in social networks like Facebook.

This article tells about the newly launched JSClasses site fan page at Facebook, as well about other things you can do to promote the site in order to attract more contributors that will share even more great JavaScript objects.