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Scaling JS

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:27 +0000

Series of talks on writing scalable JavaScript applications.

sharejs.org

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:43:52 +0000

LIbrary for concurrent editing on the web.

SourceMap

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:14:09 +0000

This could grow into a useful tool – a system for mapping between compiled javascript (e.g. something thats been minified) and it’s original source form. Would make browser debugging much easier.

Runtime Performance Measurement of Box2D

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:33:50 +0000

Several implementation s of Box2D are compared, showing that for common tasks JavaScript is still* orders of magnitude slower that native compiled code. (*and probably always will be for many types of problem)

Moment.js – A lightweight javascript date library

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:55:39 +0000

A date and time library for JavaScript, available via node package manager.

HTML5 context menus

Rich — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:27:34 +0000

A brief video guide to using the menu element in HTML.

Page Visibility API

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:41:01 +0000

Aurora 10′s just landed and it includes the Page Visibility API – enabling JS apps to know when they’re in the background, and thus throttle down, or perhaps get on with some housekeeping that woudl otherwise interrupt the user.

Chrome Experiments Workshop

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:47:58 +0000

A new set of data visualisation norms is beginning to emerge on the web. For that to happen, there need to be simple tools, that enable larger numbers of people to want to publishing their data in forms that can be made beautiful. These are some very useful tools.

The Convergence

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:46:10 +0000

Neat example of how an old school platform puzzle can easily make the jump to the web using HTML5′s canvas element and JavaScript.

JSConf.EU Slides

Rich — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:20:40 +0000

A collection of the slides from JSConf.eu 2011

CORS with Modern Browsers

Rich — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:17:19 +0000

Useful review of some of the gotchas and workarounds needed if you’re wanting CORS code to work in multiple browsers.

The Open Web Stack

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:41:33 +0000

An extensive summary of the web technology stack.

bergie/VIE – GitHub

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:29:31 +0000

In-page RDFa editing…

heatwave

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:39:01 +0000

A realtime heatmap / codecoverage tool for JS.

Node Tuts

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:36:20 +0000

Note JS screencast tutorials.

JSON-LD 1.0

Rich — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:43:48 +0000

Draft level (but promising) ideas for context based modelling of linked data in JS.

JSMeter Project

Rich — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:51:00 +0000

Microsoft analyse JS benchmarks and find they have no relevance to common JS-based web apps.

Freebase Suggest

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:06:51 +0000

Very cute indeed. An autosuggest client & service for jQuery that provides renderable objects with detailed info.

UglifyJS

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:19:49 +0000

Uglify contains an Abstract Syntax Tree, so anyone interested in doing any language parsing JS tools or projects might like to give it a look.

Kue

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:52:19 +0000

Kue – a javascript job queueing system. Details on GitHub