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Backbone.js 1.0 Released
After 2.5 years of development, version 1.0 of Backbone.js has been released. Backbone.js is the popular JavaScript Model/View library used for many popular single-page web applications, including USA Today, Rdio and Airbnb.
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Edge.js Combines Node.js with .NET
The Edge.js project combines Node.js with the .NET platform. Developers can use C# on Node.js or provide Node.js functionality to C# applications-- allowing them to use the best tool for each task. InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with author Tomasz Janczuk about the project and his future plans.
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Canvas-Based Chart.js Version 0.1 Released
Chart.js, a canvas-driven Javascript charting library, was released under the MIT open source license by Nick Downie on March 17th as an alternative to SVG-based charting libraries.
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PeerJS 0.1.7: A WebRTC Wrapper For P2P In The Browser
Michelle Bu and Eric Zhang announced the release of PeerJS 0.1.7 on March 6th as a wrapper around WebRTC, a W3C initiative meant to facilitate P2P communication in the browser.
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Stripe Open Sources Abba, an A/B Testing Framework
Stripe has open sourced their JavaScript A/B testing framework called Abba.
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Node.js 0.10 Released
The Node.js development team has released version 0.10 of node.js, the Javascript-based platform for building high-performance asynchronous servers. The release features an easier to use module for handling streams, better error handling with domains, and performance improvements. The team also announced that after version 0.10, one more stable release (0.12) will follow before its 1.0 release.
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Grunt 0.4.0 Released: An Emphasis On Modularity
The Grunt team updated their Javascript task runner to version 0.4.0 on February 18th in their ongoing effort to decouple the library into more modular parts.
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Eclipse Orion 2.0 Now Runs Locally on Node.js
Eclipse Orion 2.0 has been recently released with support for Node.js, Projects, more and improved Shell commands, better JavaScript code assist and performance improvements.
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Oracle Updates NetBeans for HTML5
With the latest 7.3 release of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE so developers can more easily build HTML5-based user interfaces for mobile and web applications, with code completion capabilities for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS3, and a new Nashorn-powered JavaScript editor. Netbeans also gains a new stand-alone JPQL editor that allows developers to test JPQL queries directly from the IDE.
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Meet Travis CI: Open Source Continuous Integration
The Travis CI Foundation transitioned to a brand new build system on January 30th, both simplifying and bolstering the capacity of their open source continuous integration testing solution.
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Reveal.js: A 3D Presentation Framework; Version 2.2 Released
Hakim El Hattab released version 2.2 of reveal.js on January 28th, fixing a handful of bugs and implementing a host of new features in the JavaScript 3D presentation library. Reveal.js, like other work from Hattab, leverages modern browsers to exploit CSS 3D transformations to explore depth of the browser canvas.
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Google App Engine Adds Support for Java 7
Google App Engine introduces experimental support for Java 7, Cloud Endpoints, and Cloud Messaging Service for Android.
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Daniel Jebaraj on Succinctly ebooks
Daniel Jebaraj shares with InfoQ the idea behind the launch of Succinctly series ebook and also shared the future roadmap.
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JavaScript Now First Among Equals on GNOME
The GNOME desktop environment popular on Linux-based systems is making JavaScript its primary language for application development. While other languages will be supported, JavaScript will receive the most support. This controversial decision has sparked debate over the merits of the selection.
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One Less Browser Engine: Opera Switches to WebKit
Opera will release new versions of their browser for mobile and desktop based on WebKit. They are also going to integrate Chromium.