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  • Ecma Standardizes Dart

    Ecma International has standardized the first edition of Dart, ECMA-408.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Google Web Fundamentals and Web Starter Kit

    Google has published a number of guidelines and boilerplate code for cross-platform responsive website design.

  • Guidelines for Responsive Website Design

    This article includes several guidelines for creating websites that scale for different screen sizes and form factors.

  • GitHub Open Sources the Atom IDE

    GitHub has open sourced their Atom IDE including the Atom Shell framework, Atom Core, and the Atom Package Manager (apm).

  • Facebook Open-Sources PlanOut, a Framework for Online Field Experiments

    PlanOut is Facebook's language for online field experiments supporting "A/B tests," factorial designs, and more. According to Facebook, PlanOut makes possible to separate experimental design from application code and allows experimenters to concisely describe their designs. Facebook claims to be using PlanOut to run over a thousand experiments each day that involve hundreds of millions of people.

  • jQuery Stops IE 6 and IE 7 Support in v1.13

    jQuery will drop support for Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 "somewhere in 2015", jQuery Foundation president Dave Methvin stated on the official jQuery blog last week. This change will go hand in hand with the release of jQuery 1.13. The release 1.12 will be the last one with official support for the named versions of Microsoft's default browser for Windows.

  • Ember.js 1.5 Released: New Testing Features, Improved UX

    The Ember.js team has released version 1.5, with new testing features, and an eager URL update that will “provide for a better UX 99% of the time,” according to Ember core team member Robert Jackson. Jackson, posting on the Ember.js blog, described the new version as having “a ton of bug fixes and small improvements” as well as new features in the release.

  • Meteor 0.8: Blaze Release Overhauls Rendering System

    Meteor has released version 0.8, bringing an “an overhaul of Meteor's rendering system.” Meteor’s next generation live templating engine, Blaze, includes support for fine-grained DOM updates, jQuery integration and simpler API. Blaze replaces the live page update engine Spark that was introduced in version 0.4 in 2012.

  • Meteor 0.7.1 Release Brings Dev Accounts, Further Improvements

    Matt DeBergalis has released version 0.7.1 of Meteor, with the improvements to oplog and minimongo, CSS preprocessing, and Meteor developer accounts. Version 0.7.1 includes added support to minimongo for what DeBergalis refers to on the Meteor blog as “more of the ‘estoteric corners’ of the MongoDB query language."

  • Elm 0.11 Improves JavaScript Interop

    Elm’s recent 0.11 release aims to simplify using the FRP language in combination with Javascript.

  • Testing End-to-End with Nightwatch

    Nightwatch is a recently released acceptance framework based on Node.js that uses Selenium WebDriver API to automate web applications testing. The tool promises a simple syntax which enables the writing of end-to-end tests using JavaScript and CSS selector that runs against a Selenium server.

  • CoffeeScript 1.7 Released: Adds Chaining Without Parenthesis, Multiline Strings and More

    Jeremy Ashkenas has released version 1.7 of CoffeeScript, and with it introduced some highly anticipated changes to the popular JavaScript transpiler. Version 1.7 includes one of the most popular requests for the language; support for chaining without parenthesis.

  • DevDocs, a One Stop Shop for Reference Documentation

    DevDocs combines multiple reference documentation sets, commonly used by software developers, in a single web site. DevDocs takes advantage of this centralization to offer crosscutting features such as a searchable interface, keyboard shortcuts, common layouts or a common table of contents. DevDocs currently includes documentation for HTML, HTTP, Javascript and Ruby, among others.

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