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TypeScript Gets Faster Compiler
The TypeScript team is building a new, light-weight compiler core to replace it’s existing one. Early results show upto 5x performance improvements compared to the existing compiler.
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Delayed Ember.js 1.6 released
Ember.js 1.6 has been released to the community, following delays caused by the addition of an AMD loader. However, this delay has been largely unremarked upon by the Ember community, with users excited about the new features in version 1.6 and the promise of 1.7.
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ThoughtWorks Radar July 2014: Trends in JavaScript, Microservices, Conway’s Law and Decentralization
ThoughtWorks has recently published their Technology Radar July 2014 (PDF) noticing important trends in the JavaScript ecosystem, microservices, Conway’s Lay and infrastructure decentralization.
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Visualize.js - JavaScript Visualization Library for JasperReports
TIBCO has recently released Visualize.js, a JavaScript framework for embedding reports, visualizations and analytics, as part of TIBCO Jaspersoft 5.6. Visualize.js is a JavaScript API framework used to embed interactive HTML5 JasperReport Server reports & visualizations, bundled with Jaspersoft BI Enterprise and Professional, and as an add-on to Jaspersoft BI Express.
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BrainBrowser: v2.0 of JavaScript Library for Neuroimaging Released
BrainBrowser -- the JavaScript library for web-based 3D visualization tools aimed at neuroimaging -- has released version 2.0.
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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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Raddish: Node.js Framework with Support for Threads and Sockets
Jasper van Rijbroek has released Raddish, a new Node.js framework with "ridiculous speeds" that also comes with out of the box support for threads and sockets. According to its own notes, Raddish aims to be "amazingly fast". Van Rijbroek told InfoQ that by using a fallback system Raddish allows developers to write less code to reach their goals.
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Google Launches Gmail API Beta
At the last Google I/O Google has introduced a new Gmail API aiming at "giving developers flexible, RESTful access to the user's inbox, with a natural interface to Threads, Messages, Labels, Drafts, and History", and bringing developers multiple benefits over IMAP, says Google.
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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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Dartium Comes To Android
Dart 1.5 released last week with a focus on mobile development. This includes a version of Dartium that works on Android along with editor improvements to support debugging of mobile web apps built using Dart.
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Chrome Dev Editor: A New JavaScript and Dart IDE
A Google engineer has made available Chrome Dev Editor (CDE) during Google IO 2014, a new IDE for creating Chrome Apps and web apps for the desktop and mobile devices. CDE supports JavaScript and Dart.
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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.
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Cayley: A Graph Engine Inspired by Google’s Knowledge Graph
Barak Michener, a Software Engineer working for the Google Knowledge Team, has open sourced a personal project called Cayley, a graph database inspired by Freebase and the Google Knowledge Graph, the later powering Google’s search engine. Freebase is a collection of free structured data, currently at ~2.7B facts and counting, and an API for querying this data.
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Node Security Project Aims at Making Node.js More Secure
Node Security Project has been quietly working at improving Node.js security for a few months now. The project has the goal of auditing Node.js existing module base to help "improve Node landscape and provide confidence to developers and enterprises about the state of security in Node.js land."
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Orion 6.0 Brings Language Tooling Support for JavaScript
Orion 6.0 will be released this month, bringing with it improvements to the language tooling support for JavaScript development.