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Firebug aids Mashup Development
Phil Rees has written an introduction to Firebug using the Google Mashup Editor (still in limited beta) and his DanceMaps mashup. He walks through everything from CSS to Yahoo! Pipes and how Firebug helps web development.
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jQuery Gaining Traction With 1.2 and jQuery UI
jQuery is quickly becoming the Ajax library of choice for many. jQuery 1.2 was released yesterday and has many new features. A preview/teaser of jQuery User Interface was shown as well.
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TrimPath Junction - Bringing Rails Style MVC to JavaScript
TrimPath Junction has been quite active since it was reinvigorated by Google Gears back in July. A new OnLamp walkthrough showcases the project which bring Rails style MVC to JavaScript.
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Internet Explorer increases cookie limit to 50
Internet Explorer will now support 50 cookies per domain, but the performance implications of large HTTP request sizes require caution on the part of web developers.
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Analyzing JavaScript in Respect to Performance
In a new article Kirk Pepperdine has taken a detailed look at the topic of JavaScript performance. The article looks at common areas such as getters/setters, memory leaks, and bad micro benchmarking.
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Mozilla Paints the Future of Web Scripting with Monkeys
There has been a lot of Monkey talk going on in the Mozilla circles centered around 5 different projects at Mozilla. All of the projects are powerful and telling about the future of browser scripting.
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Tibco releases PageBus - Ajax publish/subscribe component
A few days ago Tibco announced the availability of PageBus, which is a framework to allow publish/subscribe between Ajax components on the browser side. Furthermore Tibco made PageBus an open source project under the BSD license. PageBus provides an important component for building mashups in RIAs in a more flexible, loosely coupled way.
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Google Gears Continues Momentum with ORM API and Support From Popular Javascript Projects
The Google Gears team recently blogged about their roadmap and development process. It covers what the focus will be for the next few months and emphasizes their plan to keep Gears' development out in the open. The first (official) version of the GearsORM project has also been released.
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JavaScript: Its Evolution as a Language
JavaScript has been progressing steadily since it received a significant update as ECMAScript edition 3 in 1999. The latest proposal Netscape's ECMAScript Edition 4 for JavaScript 2.0 is available online. John Resig, the creator of jQuery project, has posted some thoughts on his blog.
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A Comparison of Push vs Pull Ajax
Based on their experimental study, Engin Bozdag, Ali Mesbah and Arie van Deursen of the Delft University of Technology have compiled a technical report on the trade offs in Push versus Pull approcahes to achieve real-time event notifications in AJAX applications.
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Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino
At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.
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Interview: Rails and JavaScript Wizards
Thomas Fuchs, author of the massively popular Scriptaculous JavaScript library and Michael Buffington, well-known Rails programmer and author of the surprise hit online-game Unroll (llor.nu) have a casual conversation with Obie Fernandez about the power of mixing JavaScript with Ruby on Rails and smart development.
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Visual Studio 2007 Preview
Do you wonder what will be in the next edition of Visual Studio? MSDN's Showtime has a copy of the TechEd presentation on the upcoming "Orcas" release. Highlights include framework multi-targeting, rich CSS support, enhanced JavaScript Intellisense and debugging.
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ASP.NET AJAX Released: Will AJAX Finally Be Popular On ASP.NET?
According to the annual survey conducted in September by Ajaxian.com, ASP.NET developers lagged behind other AJAX-enabled implementations. With the release of ASP.NET AJAX, that is all set to change.
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Turning Java into Javascript with J2S
Interface21's Ben Alex has recently been examining Java2Javascript Pacemaker (J2S). J2S includes a Java to Javascript compiler along with support for standard Java packages such as java.lang, java.io and java.util.