News and interviews about the latest happenings in the JavaScript world. Hosted by Manuel Lemos of the PHPClasses.org site and Michael Kimsal of the JSMag magazine. It is recorded in MP3 format at least once a month in the beginning of each month. http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/category/podcast/ 2012-05-18T11:37:00Z JavaScript,JSClasses,Web,Developers,podcast,Manuel Lemos,Michael Kimsal no info@jsclasses.org JSClasses.org site http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/category/podcast/ http://files.jsclasses.org/graphics/jsclasses/Lately-In-JavaScript-Podcast.jpg http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/31-Shall-we-always-use-semicolons-in-JavaScript--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast-episode-18.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/31-Shall-we-always-use-semicolons-in-JavaScript--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast-episode-18.html">Shall we always use semi-colons in JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 18</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Watch the video, listen to the podcast, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.</a></div> </div> 2012-05-04T09:19:35Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/30-Participate-in-the-Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast-in-Video-with-Google-Hangouts.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/30-Participate-in-the-Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast-in-Video-with-Google-Hangouts.html">Participate in the Lately in JavaScript podcast in Video with Google Hangouts</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">The upcoming episodes of the Lately in JavaScript podcast will be recorded in video using the Google Hangouts service.<br /> <br /> 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.</a></div> </div> 2012-04-25T10:08:06Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/29-Would-you-Pay-for-Sophisticated-JavaScript-Development-Tools--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-17.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/29-Would-you-Pay-for-Sophisticated-JavaScript-Development-Tools--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-17.html">Would you Pay for Sophisticated JavaScript Development Tools? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 17</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Listen to the podcast or read the transcription to learn more about these and other JavaScript topics that were discussed.</a></div> </div> 2012-04-04T11:25:58Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/28-Can-Apache-24-Match-Nodejs-Event-processing-efficiency--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-16.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/28-Can-Apache-24-Match-Nodejs-Event-processing-efficiency--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-16.html">Can Apache 2.4 Match Node.js Event processing efficiency? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 16</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">Apache 2.4 was just released. Among other enhancements it provides a new processing mode that works based on events, somewhat like Node.js.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Listen to the podcast or read the transcript now to learn about these and other JavaScript topics.</a></div> </div> 2012-02-29T13:20:26Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/27-Can-ActionScript-really-be-Faster-Than-JavaScript--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-15.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/27-Can-ActionScript-really-be-Faster-Than-JavaScript--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-15.html">Can ActionScript really be Faster Than JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 15</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.</a></div> </div> 2012-01-31T09:15:53Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/25-Retrospective-of-the-JavaScript-World-in-2011-and-What-to-Expect-for-2012-Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-14.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/25-Retrospective-of-the-JavaScript-World-in-2011-and-What-to-Expect-for-2012-Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-14.html">Retrospective of the JavaScript World in 2011 and What to Expect for 2012- Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 14</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> They also covered some of the most impressive JavaScript libraries released in 2011 and what they expect for 2012 in the JavaScript world.</a></div> </div> 2012-01-04T10:50:42Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/23-Can-JavaScript-Totally-Replace-Flash-Now--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-13.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/23-Can-JavaScript-Totally-Replace-Flash-Now--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-13.html">Can JavaScript Totally Replace Flash Now? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 13</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Listen to the podcast or read to the audio transcript now to know more about these topics of discussion.</a></div> </div> 2011-11-30T10:44:45Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/21-Official-JavaScript-Logo-Google-Dart-Amazon-Silk-Jison-parser-generator--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-12.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/21-Official-JavaScript-Logo-Google-Dart-Amazon-Silk-Jison-parser-generator--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast--Episode-12.html">Official JavaScript Logo, Google Dart, Amazon Silk, Jison parser generator - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 12</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">Could Google Dart language be a better alternative language than JavaScript?<br /> <br /> Will new languages like CoffeeScript emerge using the Jison JavaScript parser generator?<br /> <br /> Will the new JavaScript logo proposal be adopted by the whole JavaScript community?<br /> <br /> Will Amazon Silk browser provide a faster Web experience for Amazon Kindle Fire tablet users?<br /> <br /> These and other topics are discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 12 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.<br /> <br /> Listen to the podcast or read the transcript here.</a></div> </div> 2011-11-01T07:34:54Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/20-Single-Page-Apps-Trend-Top-JavaScript-Developers-in-Every-Country-Multithreading-for-Nodejs--Lately-in-JavaScript-Podcast-Episode-11.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/20-Single-Page-Apps-Trend-Top-JavaScript-Developers-in-Every-Country-Multithreading-for-Nodejs--Lately-in-JavaScript-Podcast-Episode-11.html">Single Page Apps Trend, Top JavaScript Developers in Every Country, Multi-threading for Node.js - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 11</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Listen to the podcast or read to the transcript to learn about these and other JavaScript topics of interest.</a></div> </div> 2011-10-04T18:45:10Z http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/18-Sprite-3D-Codecademy-Boxed-2D-Twitter-Bootstrap--Lately-in-JavaScript-Podcast-Episode-10.html <div style="clear: both"> <div style="margin-top: 1ex"><a href="http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/18-Sprite-3D-Codecademy-Boxed-2D-Twitter-Bootstrap--Lately-in-JavaScript-Podcast-Episode-10.html">Sprite 3D, Codecademy, Boxed 2D, Twitter Bootstrap - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 10</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">By Manuel Lemos</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 1ex">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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to learn more about these JavaScript topics.</a></div> </div> 2011-09-05T05:38:05Z