Erik Arvidsson seems to be having fun going through exersizes getting JavaScript to do something his way. The latest little foray is Using catch-alls to implement super.
Firstly, catch-alls are the ab ....... read more Tue, 02 Dec 2008
Decoupling data and UI layers with PubSub architecture
Marcus Westin (who we featured on finger print) gave a talk at the SF JavaScript meetup on a top that is very interesting: One common issue in my experience are intricate dependencies between the U ....... read more Wed, 03 Dec 2008
CanvasTurtle
Eiten Suez, author of jMatter, has been up to some fun hacking recently. He just released CanvasTurtle a JavaScript and Canvas version of the old favourite TurtlePascal.
You can build snow flakes with ....... read more Thu, 04 Dec 2008
A great example of sharing; Sizzle Engine in Dojo Foundation
Voting has started in Dojo land to take in John Resigs Sizzle next-gem CSS selector engine.
This is incredibly exciting, as it shows how Ajax libraries are working together more and more. Instead of ....... read more Tue, 02 Dec 2008
SmartGWT 1.0: Huge open source widget set and more
You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0.
It is a ....... read more Tue, 02 Dec 2008
JavaScript Bra Size Calculator
Now this could only fly on a Friday ;)
Ed Spencer has coded up a bra size calculator in JavaScript: One of the more mesmerizing websites I've worked on recently was for a lingerie boutique in the U ....... read more Fri, 28 Nov 2008
Mouse entering and leaving versus over and out
Greg Reimer is doing really interesting work with reglib and he now has a neutral post on events and how he favours the pattern of mouse enter / leave to mouse over / out.
He shows an example using t ....... read more Fri, 28 Nov 2008
SproutCore: Mixins and Talk
If you skip in 20 minutes to the presentation above you will find Charles Jolley talking about SproutCore: During this presentation I actually built and deployed a small application on stage but t ....... read more Fri, 28 Nov 2008
Interactive iPhone Console using JSCocoa
KUMAGAI Kentaro has created a JSCocoa based interactive console for the iPhone: I?ve been struggling with transform property of UIView for long time. at last, I?ve decided to create UIMonkey that ....... read more Mon, 24 Nov 2008
NetBeans Adds JavaScript 1.7 Support
Dion and I were just talking about NetBeans (Suns free Java IDE) with some colleagues the other day. To those in the Java community, just mentioning NetBeans can conjure up some of the worst memori ....... read more Wed, 26 Nov 2008
Trying to be private in JavaScript
Erik Arvidsson has an updated take on instance private, class private, package and friends.
One thing that shoots out at you is actually at the end: Gmail was written without any true private membe ....... read more Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Ejacs: Why you would want to a JS runtime in Emacs Lisp
I had to hold this back until Friday, because you will need some time to read Steve Yegge talking about his new project Ejacs: Ejacs is an Ecma-262 compliant JavaScript interpreter written entirely ....... read more Fri, 21 Nov 2008
Detect Ajax Framework with WTFramework
Because viewing the source is too bothersome, we now have WTFramework (short for What The Framework , obviously), a bookmarklet that will detect and display the Ajax / JavaScript frameworks used in ....... read more Tue, 18 Nov 2008
Reglib and jQuery Demo
We posted on reglib, the new declarative event based library by Greg Reimer. I was a little confused at first, but Greg has posted a follow up which includes a demonstration comparing reglib to jQuery ....... read more Tue, 18 Nov 2008
yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo?s BOSS API
BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get t ....... read more Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Guid0: JavaScript GUIDs
Our own Michael Mahemoff is at it again, creating a simple little GUID generator called Guid0: Guid0 is a GUID library for JavaScript. Okay, it doesn't yet do official, bona fide, 128-bit, GUIDs ye ....... read more Fri, 14 Nov 2008
Timing in JavaScript and browsers can?t be trusted
This is officially the week of John. If he delivers top notch posts for the rest of the week he wins an Ajaxian award or something. Maybe we need to bring back the pack of cards where each card is a ....... read more Wed, 12 Nov 2008