HTML5 Boilerplate & HTML5 Reset
HTML5 Reset (by Monkeydo) and HTML5 Boilerplate (Paul Irish & Divya Manian) are new HTML5 project skeletons. If you’re about to start a new HTML5 site, you can reach for one of these all-in-one kits that include everything you need to write great, forward-looking code, while still maintaining support for legacy [...]
Connect
Tim Caswell and TJ Holowaychuck, both of whom are members of the ExtJS team, have just released Connect: a middleware framework for NodeJS. In his blog post announcing Connect, Caswell cites Ruby’s Rack as an inspiration for the project.
A Connect server runs a set of middleware modules, each of which performs a specific action when [...]
AppengineJS
Yes, it’s true! You can now run Javascript applications on Google’s App Engine platform thanks to the new AppengineJS project. The project is based on Rhino, the Java-based Javascript runtime, which is why it can run on Google’s Java- and Python-only platform. Of course, since Rhino has been around forever, simply executing Javascript on App [...]
New Tutorials
There have been several handy tutorials released lately, and I thought it might be useful to collect a few of them here.
Ben Lister’s blog post, Getting Started with HTML5 Local Databases, is a clear, thorough introduction to client-side SQLite databases. The definitive resource is still Apple’s client-side storage reference, but Lister’s article is probably [...]
Exciting stuff this week—a lot of it Node.js-related. Node is reaching a critical mass, and now is a great time to get on board. With that, here’s the news:
RequireJS 0.11.0
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of RequireJS, the non-blocking, asynchronous dependency manager/build tool for Javascript. Well, with the brand new 0.11.0 release, it’s [...]
Well folks, I’ve got to admit, it was a bit of a slow news week in the Javascript world. But rest assured, I didn’t come to write this post empty-handed.
Garbage Collection
This week, the Ajaxian/WebOS Developer Relations guys linked to a great in-depth article on Palm’s website about garbage collection in Javascript. It goes into a [...]
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There seems to be a growing number of magazine-style PDF publications out there. This is a short list of some of the ones I’m aware of. What other ones do you know of?
PHP Architect – http://phparch.com
MySQL Magazine – http://www.paragon-cs.com/mag/
GroovyMag – http://groovymag.com
Python Magazine – http://pythonmagazine.com
JSMag – http://www.jsmag.com
Rails Magazine – http://railsmagazine.com
The Rubyist – http://therubyist.com
Java Express – http://dworld.pl/javaexpress [...]
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