Lately in JavaScript podcast

Crawling AJAX Web sites using HTML5 pushState support - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 30

2013-05-13T09:29:35Z

Crawling AJAX Web sites using HTML5 pushState support - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 30

By Manuel Lemos

Now that both Google and Bing support crawling sites that use HTML5 history pushState, developers are free to use it in AJAX based Web sites navigation. That was one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in episode 30 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about Chardin.js for overlaying page help instructions, creating page screenshot clips with PhantomJS, supporting functions with a variable number of arguments, and detecting the inadvertent use of global variables using Debug.js.

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Better JavaScript Development Tools - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 29

2013-04-04T08:04:39Z

Better JavaScript Development Tools - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 29

By Manuel Lemos

JavaScript development and debugging tools evolved and now we have great tools like Slowmo.js to visualize the execution of JavaScript code and sites like Runnable to try JavaScript code on the browser and server side (with Node.js).

This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 29 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about the HTML5 <template> tag, rendering PDF documents with JavaScript on server side, animated graphics with SVG.js, version control in JavaScript with JS Git, and demoing Web site features with Intro.js.

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Faster JavaScript with asm.js - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 28

2013-03-05T11:57:56Z

Faster JavaScript with asm.js - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 28

By Manuel Lemos

asm.js is a subset of JavaScript meant to execute code faster, especially for JavaScript converted from C or C++, but can also execute on browsers. This one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos, Michael Kimsal and Arturs Sosins in the episode 28 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about making languages execute faster with alternative memory allocation methods, using IndexedDB and other file storage APIs, better asynchronous programming with Async.js, and the comparison between languages with Lord of the Rings characters.

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Speed up JavaScript using HTML5 LocalStorage - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 27

2013-02-06T08:33:12Z

Speed up JavaScript using HTML5 LocalStorage - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 27

By Manuel Lemos

JavaScript can load faster if HTML5 LocalStorage is used to cache the scripts on the browser side. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 27 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked a new library to evaluate JavaScript code complexity, PhoneGap 2.3 improvements, the use of the strict mode in production JavaScript code, using advanced HTML5 and JavaScript based animations to get the attention of site users, the first edition of the JavaScript Programming Innovation Award.

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JavaScript World Review of 2012 and 2013 Expectations - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 26

2013-01-07T12:43:19Z

JavaScript World Review of 2012 and 2013 Expectations - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 26

By Manuel Lemos

Will Wordpress shift from PHP to JavaScript? Will EcmaScript 6 become the basis of JavaScript? What will happen with JavaScript in 2013?

A review of the happenings in the JavaScript world in 2012 and the expectations of 2013 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 26 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about the JavaScript Programming Innovation Award that is starting in January, the Nashorn JavaScript engine for Java, the debate of using events and promises as alternatives to callbacks, the growing support for WebRTC in different browsers, the problem of not styling with CSS graphics drawn in canvas objects, and the Freelance Path community for freelancers.

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Does JavaScript Really Need OOP Classes? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 25

2012-12-12T11:54:13Z

Does JavaScript Really Need OOP Classes? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 25

By Manuel Lemos

Ecmascript 6 is adding support to classes of objects in JavaScript like we have in other languages, but the interest of that is not consensual among the JavaScript community.

That was one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 25 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also cover other interesting JavaScript related topics like the Web Platform site, using Object Properties, writung memory efficient JavaScript, the JavaScript API you never heard of, and the new system of levels and missions implemented in the JS Classes site to make it more fun and engaging for site contributors.

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Improving the Quality of Your JavaScript Code - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 24

2012-11-05T09:30:42Z

Improving the Quality of Your JavaScript Code - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 24

By Manuel Lemos

One way to improve the quality of your JavaScript code is to resort to tools to detect the problems and test your JavaScript applications. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 24 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also discussed other topics like Web based JavaScript editors, unobtrusive JavaScript code, and using Node.js on RaspberryPi devices.

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JavaScript as Base of Windows 8 Applications - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 23

2012-10-03T10:31:20Z

JavaScript as Base of Windows 8 Applications - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 23

By Manuel Lemos

Windows 8 applications will be using the WinJS library to script Windows applications using JavaScript code. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the episode 23 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also cover other interesting topics like using AngularJS for data binding user interfaces, JavaScript libraries to flip Web page content like book pages, genetic algorithms implemented in JavaScript, and a Gantt chart editor JavaScript library.

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The Speed of JavaScript Implementations - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 22

2012-09-03T09:58:22Z

The Speed of JavaScript Implementations - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 22

By Manuel Lemos

Recently, Google released the project Octane that aims to measure the performance of different JavaScript implementations using benchmark scripts that call real world JavaScript libraries.

That was one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the episode 22 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about implementing your own version of Yahoo! Pipes using JSPlumb library, the new PHP VM to execute PHP code using JavaScript, displaying large videos on page backgrounds with BigVideo.js, a comparison between different JavaScript Physics engines, and using Cross-Domain AJAX versus JSONP.

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Web Developers Need More Usable Browsers - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 21

2012-07-30T10:05:30Z

Web Developers Need More Usable Browsers - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 21

By Manuel Lemos

Web browsers are getting more powerful and complex with the introduction of many features desired by Web developers.

However, the lack of usability of certain new features is such, that it is hard even for experienced developers to realize that those features are available now.

That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 21 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also covered the growing dominance of jQuery and the announcement that jQuery 2.x will no longer support IE 6/7/8, implementing resumable uploads of large files with DNDUploader, the Mozilla Shumway VM for emulating Flash in JavaScript.

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