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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.
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Prototype Releases Version 1.5, New Website, and Documentation
The popular Prototype Javascript framework has released version 1.5 including a new website an online documentation.
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Virtual Earth in 2 lines of javascript
Virtual Earth can now do 3-D maps and three cities are now available: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Atlanta.
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Phobos: Will we have JavaScript on the Server-side again?
A recent editorial on Ajaxian asks what it would be like to write JavaScript on the client and server. Phobos, a Java.net project, is doing just that. The goal of Phobos is to show that Java can be a successful platform for server-side scripting. Server-side JavaScript would allow code-sharing between the client and server and only one language required for web development.
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moo.fx 2.0 released with Fx.Style while Animator.js avoids inheritance
moo.fx 2.0 has been released featuring new effects to modify any CSS property, the color properties of elements, and to internally scroll long divs. An interesting alternative not using inheritance but providing similar functionality is the Animator.js library. moo.fx and Animator.js are JavaScript effects frameworks designed for speed, robustness, and small size.
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Spam Prevention without CAPTCHA Images
The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit offers a control that reduces spam on web logs and forums without requiring users to enter a CAPTCHA.
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MSXML and Internet Explorer
A new version of IE has been released, and with it more confusion about which is the right version of MSXML. Adam Wiener clarifies the situation.
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ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 released today
Today the Microsoft ASP.NET team announced the released of ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1. There are many changes from the previously released builds and announced support for the Safari web browser. An exciting additional note is promised support for a source modification license.