Lately in JavaScript podcast

34. Speech input for Visual HTML 5 Editors - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 20

Posted on: 2012-07-03

Visual HTML editors have evolved to the point that now it is possible to speak text that is recognized and entered automatically in the editor. That was one of the several topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 20 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Other discussed topics include improving on jQuery features with the jqBootstrap Validation and jQuery++, and end to end chat system totally based on JavaScript with Node.js.

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33. Rewarding JavaScript Developers - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 19

Posted on: 2012-06-11

The JavaScript Innovation Award is going to reward developers that share innovative JavaScript components. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 19 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They received Arturs Sosins, one of the top contributors of the JS Classes site, to discuss this and other topics like executing JavaScript code faster with LLJS, running Mac OS integrated Node.js applications with NodeObjC, the Adobe Brackers Web editor, adding physics to 3D scenes with PhysiJS, and testing JavaScript code with Douglas Crockford JSCheck.

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31. Shall we always use semi-colons in JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 18

Posted on: 2012-05-04

The recent controversy about the refusal of the JSMin project to support certain unusual cases on which semi-colons were not used, raised an intense debate on whether you should always use semi-colons to delimit your JavaScript statements. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the the episode 18 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also discussed the nightmare of dealing of JSON encoded date values on different browsers, converting C/C++ libraries to JavaScript with the Emscripten project, among other interesting recent topics and happenings in the JavaScript worlds.

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30. Participate in the Lately in JavaScript podcast in Video with Google Hangouts

Posted on: 2012-04-25

The upcoming episodes of the Lately in JavaScript podcast will be recorded in video using the Google Hangouts service.

This is a brief note about when the next episode will be recorded and on how you can participate in the recording sessions if you are interested to have a voice and interact with other podcast participants giving your opinion on the different subjects that we will discuss.

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29. Would you Pay for Sophisticated JavaScript Development Tools? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 17

Posted on: 2012-04-04

Bret Victor presented his game development platform that provides sophisticated JavaScript development features that allow for instance to interactively change your JavaScript code while the game is running.

Would you pay to have a tool like this to develop your JavaScript projects more productively? This was one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 17 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Among other topics, they also covered other interesting JavaScript topics like Felipe Moura's Root3D 3D modeling tool based on CSS 3 and JavaScript, choosing task specific JavaScript frameworks with the MicroJS site, the new PHP extension that runs JavaScript code using the V8 engine.

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28. Can Apache 2.4 Match Node.js Event processing efficiency? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 16

Posted on: 2012-02-29

Apache 2.4 was just released. Among other enhancements it provides a new processing mode that works based on events, somewhat like Node.js.

In the episode 15 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss whether Apache 2.4 can be used with the same advantages of Node.js with the new event based processing mode.

Other than that, they also discuss other happenings in the JavaScript worlds like the use of UI sheets to make faster AJAX applications, Twitter to abandon the hash bang URLs, and the difficulties of dealing with times and dates exchanged between the browser and the server.

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

Posted on: 2012-01-31

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.

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25. Retrospective of the JavaScript World in 2011 and What to Expect for 2012- Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 14

Posted on: 2012-01-04

The year 2011 has ended with lots of interesting developments in the JavaScript world. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the episode 14 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Things like the progressive death of Flash, the increased pace of development of newer browser versions, single page Web apps, etc.. were just a few of aspects they commented.

They also covered some of the most impressive JavaScript libraries released in 2011 and what they expect for 2012 in the JavaScript world.

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

Posted on: 2011-11-30

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.

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

Posted on: 2011-11-01

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.

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