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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.
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Community-Driven Research: Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 16th question about: "Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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jQuery's Github-Driven Plugin Repository Launched
The jQuery Foundation launched its new plugin repository on January 16th in an attempt to bolster and consolidate third-party development against the jQuery core library.
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Twitter Open Sources Flight, an Event-based Component Framework
Twitter has open sourced Flight, the JavaScript framework used internally in production to provide functionality for their website.