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CodeMirror 3.0 Released
CodeMirror, an in-browser code editor, has released version 3.0, adding support for right-to-left scripts, arbitrary fonts and line heights, and inline widgets.
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Twitter Bootstrap Ecosystem Continues to Grow
Bootstrap Hero recently launched a list of over 200 resources for Twitter Bootstrap. The article catalogs a wide range of UI widgets and other resources showing just how comprehensive the ecosystem is becoming.
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Amazon Embraces Node.js
Amazon has released a developer preview SDK for deploying JavaScript applications running on Node.js. The development kit comes as a NPM module (ZIP) which is installed on Node.js then called in order to access a number of AWS services: EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and Simple Workflow.
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Nashorn Proposed as Replacement JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK
Oracle's multi-language lead Jim Laskey has proposed a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, Nashorn, as an OpenJDK project.
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Google Open Sources Testacular, a JavaScript Test Runner
Google has open sourced Testacular, a JavaScript test runner based on Node.js. The tool can be used to test all major web browsers, can be integrated with CI tools, and it works with any code editor.
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50 Tricks for Faster Web Applications
Jatinder Mann, an Internet Explorer PM at Microsoft, held the session 50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster at BUILD 2012, providing many tips for creating faster web applications.
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Moscrif – Cross Platform Mobile Development with JavaScript
Moscrif is a cross-platform mobile development environment built on a custom virtual machine. Although this platform provides access to native device functionality, the programming language is a customized version of JavaScript.
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Icenium: Doug Seven on Building Hybrid Mobile Apps for iOS and Android
Icenium is a framework developed by Telerik for building cross platform hybrid mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript. Doug Seven explores the necessity of the framework, its features and provides reactions from the community.
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Eclipse Orion: A Browser-based Editor for Web Applications
The Eclipse Foundation has released Orion 1.0, a browser-based editor for web applications written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
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Atmosphere 1.0: Asynchronous Communication For Java/JavaScript
Atmosphere 1.0 is a new Java/Scala/Groovy framework that attempts to abstract asynchronous communication between the web browser and the application server. It transparently supports Web Sockets, HTML5 Server Side events and other application server specific solutions when available, with long polling as a fallback.
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Community Questions TypeScript and Compile-to-JavaScript Languages
Since TypeScript's release, the software community has had mixed reactions to this new language, with some embracing TypeScript’s way of writing type safe JavaScript and others questioning the existence of the entire compile-to-JavaScript genre.
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Handle Multiple Postbacks with AspQ
AspQ helps you to handle multiple postbacks without any complicated coding. It simplifies the task of developers who want to handle multiple postbacks with ease without compromising performance.
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Interview on Scripted, A JavaScript Editor for Local Development from VMware
Scripted is a new browser-based JavaScript code editor which works locally, having the content being served by a Node.js web server. The editor is being developed by VMware based on Eclipse Orion’s editor component. Scripted was created for developers who want to work locally with a simple and lightweight tool instead of a fully blown IDE.
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Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros
Mozilla Sweet.js enables developers to enrich JavaScript by adding new syntax to the language through the use of macros. This helps developers to customize the JavaScript syntax for their style, or to expand it by creating a new JavaScript-based DSL useful for their niche domain.
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Google Improves Dart and Provides an SDK
Google has released an SDK for Dart and several new language features and improvements, such as: an Editor, Dartium, faster VM, a numbers of libraries, a package manager and others.