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Lovefield: An SQL-like Query Engine by Google
Lovefield is a JavaScript library providing an SQL-like query engine to web developers who want the benefits of a relational database.
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WHATWG Is Standardizing Web Streams
After gestating for more than a year on GitHub, the project Streams has now been adopted by WHATWG in an effort to standardize a web streaming API. The project is led by Domenic Denicola, the man that started the work on Promises, currently part of the upcoming ECMAScript 6.
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AngularDart Reaches 1.0
The Angular team has released AngularDart 1.0, which contains a lot of new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. It is the first version of the framework with the stamp "production-ready".
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WebStorm 9 Supports Meteor, React and Polymer
WebStorm 9, JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA-based IDE, comes with a number of new features and enhancements, including support for Meteor, React, Polymer, PhoneGap, Ionic, and others.
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Microsoft's JavaScript Engine Learns New Tricks For Windows 10
The Internet Explorer team at Microsoft recently detailed changes to the JavaScript engine coming in Windows 10. A significant change is the addition of a second tier in the Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler to reduce startup time.
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AngularJS 1.3 Improves HTML Forms
The upcoming AngularJS 1.3 release arrives with a heavy focus on improved form data manipulation. While this version solves some real-life pain points, for some developers, it may not be an automatic upgrade.
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Debugging Apps in Chrome and Safari with Firefox
Mozilla has implemented the protocol adapters that enable remote debugging in Chrome for desktop or Android and Safari/iOS. They are to be integrated into WebIDE.
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Yahoo Drop the Axe on YUI
Yahoo has just announced they will immediately stop all new development on Yahoo User Interface (YUI).
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Facebook Releases Graph API v2.1 and Updates Platform Policies to Forbid Like-gating
New Facebook Graph API v2.1 incorporates several commonly requested features that build on the changes in v2.0, says Facebook. The company has also sparked a certain amount of reactions announcing changes to its platform policies that prohibit well-established like-gating practices.
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ASP.NET Two-Factor Authentication, Web And Mobile Tooling Improvements
Visual Studio Update 3 was released last week and includes some framework and tooling improvements relevant to web and mobile developers. We go through some of these, including the ASP.NET identity update supporting two-factor authentication, new Visual Studio-Azure integrations as well as several updates to the Apache Cordova Tooling preview.
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Cloud 9 IDE 3.0 Now Runs in Ubuntu Containers via Docker
Cloud 9 has recently launched a new version of their online IDE. Usually, online developer tools are simpler than their native counterparts, some even refusing to call them IDEs. But Cloud 9 does not want to be just a rich editor, incorporating more and more features of a traditional integrated development environment.
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Codio: A Multi-language IDE with Its Own Ubuntu Instance
Codio is a browser-based IDE supporting a large number of languages and including its own Ubuntu instance to test the code.
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Bootstrap 3.2 Adds Responsive Embeds Among Others
Bootstrap 3.2 adds responsive embeds, objects and iframes, several new responsive utility classes, a considerable number of small improvements and bug fixes.
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Ampersand.js: a New "Non-Frameworky Framework" to Rival Backbone.js
&yet has released Ampersand.js, a "non-frameworky" framework for building JavaScript applications, heavily inspired by Backbone.js. Ampersand.js distinguishes itself from Backbone.js primarily by being more modular and adding some new (fully optional) features.