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Building Applications with jQuery UI
Scott González demoes creating web applications with jQuery UI, showing the widget factory, the unified API, how to create new widgets, the CSS framework, and themes.
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The Once And Future Script Loader
Kyle Simpson reviews the script loading history and discusses current script loading techniques and the browser and HTML support for them.
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CoffeeScript is For Closers
Brandon Satrom introduces CoffeeScript, enough for a developer to get an idea about the language and to be able to get started.
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CoffeeScript: JavaScript Evolved
Scott Davis introduces CoffeeScript through a demo, showing how to create a Hello World application and why it is an improvement over JavaScript.
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1,000,000 Daily Users and No Cache
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm shares the lessons learned while scaling their game platforms to handle millions of users, each game being built by small teams of two developers without dedicated ops.
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Embedding Ruby and RubyGems Over RedBridge
Yoko Harada introduces RedBridge, aka JRuby Embed, a Java API for calling JRuby code that is treated as regular Java objects, explaining its relation to JSR223 and demoing how to use it.
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How We (Mostly) Moved from Java to Scala
Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.
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Mobile JavaScript Framework Bake Off!
Roland Barcia introduces Dojo Mobile, David Kaneda talks about SenchaTouch 2, while John Bender lures developers to jQuery Mobile.
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A Quick Tour of Dart
Gilad Bracha discusses Dart, its type system, interfaces, generics, ADTs without types, built-in factory support.
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Improve Your Java with Groovy
Ken Kousen demoes 10 cases when he says it’s better to use Groovy: XML (and JSON), JDBC, I/O (Files), Collections, Closures, Builders, AST Transformations, Meta-programming, Spock, and Gradle.
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Getting Truth Out of the DOM
Yehuda Katz discusses techniques for keeping data out of the DOM based on the idea that retrieving such data from the DOM involves a performance penalty and may affect data integrity.
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Mojito: A Tale of Two Runtimes
Matthew Taylor introduces Yahoo! Mojito, a web development framework that can be used to deploy JavaScript components that can run either on the server or a plethora of clients.
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