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

Updated on: 2012-12-12

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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.

Listen to the podcast audio, or watch the podcast video or read the transcript to learn more about these and other JavaScript topics.


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

Updated on: 2012-10-05

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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.

Listen to the podcast now, or watch the podcast video or read the podcast transcript to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topics covered in this episode.


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

Updated on: 2012-08-02

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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.

Listen to the podcast audio, or watch the podcast video, or read the podcast transcript to learn more about these and other interesting JavaScript topic discussed in the episode.


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

Updated on: 2012-10-09

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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.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the podcast video, or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting topics of the what happened lately in the JavaScript world.


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

Updated on: 2012-06-11

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

Updated on: 2012-03-03

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

Updated on: 2012-01-31

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

Updated on: 2014-01-24

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

Updated on: 2011-12-01

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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

Updated on: 2011-11-01

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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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