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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.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcription to learn more about these and other JavaScript topics that were discussed.

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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.

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

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

Posted on: 2012-01-19

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.

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24. Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

Posted on: 2011-12-22

This is just a short notice to let you know about a new initiative meant to encourage authors improve their participation in this site.

Read this article whether you are already a contributor or you are planning to start contributing.

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22. Tutorial Video on Importing Classes from Git, SubVersion and CVS Repositories

Posted on: 2011-11-21

This is a small note about a tutorial article and a video that was just posted to explain how to quickly import package files from remote version control repositories based on CVS, SubVersion, as well as Git which is now also supported.

Read this article, especially if you are a contributor or you are willing to share your JavaScript objects in the JSClasses site.

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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.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript here.

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

Posted on: 2011-10-04

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.

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19. Top Developers in Every Country

Posted on: 2011-09-28

A new feature was just launched in the JSClasses and PHPClasses sites that allows seeing which are the top developers in each country that have contributed to the sites.

Read this article to learn more about top developers by country and how you can get featured on these tops.

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17. JSClasses site 1st Anniversary

Posted on: 2011-08-25

Today we celebrate the first anniversary of the JSClasses site. Lots of accomplishments were achieved but more are planned for the future.

Read this article to learn about the current achievements and the plans for the future so you can help in making the JSClasses site better for all JavaScript developers.

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

Posted on: 2011-07-29

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.

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