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Tidbits
YUI updated and cleaned up its website . There's a little discussion happening at Hacker News as well, with a lot of interaction with the YUI developers.
Avoiding The Quirks: Lessons From A JavaScript Code Review - Addy Osmani gives a series of quick tips for writing your JavaScript
The Backbone.js Todo List Refactored - Part 2: Being Reactionary
Debugging the Filesystem API (HTML5Rocks)
Listen to this week's podcast (September 9, 2011)
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It's inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles (hey, I think I remember listening to that talk live!).
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News organizations have a responsibility that the things they report are indeed true, and if they start bending that rule, why would we give them the benefit of credibility to them in other cases? A recommendation for people working with news is to employ more critical thinking, just as they were taught to be in the first place, and investigate before they blindly republish.
The spirit of the web - about respecting users
The other part in this is the reason why probably so many believed it, …
News roundup: JavaScript under attack!
Posted on September 19, 2011, 10:24 pm, by David Calhoun, under News .
(Podcast edit: I mistakenly mention Respond.js , which is actually a media query polyfill - I'm actually talking about Responsive images )
Google Dart
By far the biggest news of the week isn 't JavaScript, but rather a language called Dart (formerly Dash?), which certain factions …
Libraries and Frameworks
Responsive-Menu is a jQuery plugin to display menus as a select dropdown on mobile devices
jQuery Boilerplate is a boilerplate for creating jQuery plugins.
wru is a unit test framework for node.js and Rhino
box2dweb is a port of Box2DFlash 2.1a to JavaScript.
JSONDB is a tiny script to pack and unpack (flatten and unflatten) JSON for transmission over the fire
Listen to this week's news podcast (June 11, 2011)
Tons of new stuff and new conferences up!
By the way, don't forget to take advantage of O 'Reilly's 50% discount deal on JavaScript books during the next few days. (EDIT: the discount applies to ebooks only)
yokul yokul is an attempt at using the ...
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Of microlibraries and nanolibraries If you've been following along lately, you know that there's been a plethora of small JavaScript libraries that have been released, particularly by the prolific Dustin Diaz. Previously we've seen a proliferation of jQuery plugins, but it seems that the JavaScript ...
Libraries
morf is a library that allows you to use even more easing functions than just the standard CSS3 ones (linear, ease-in, ease-out, etc.)
Meow is a Growl-inspired notifier for webpages (requires jQuery)
Tidbits
test262: Industry JavaScript Standards Test Available
Refactoring Javascript with kratko.js (kangax)
New entity …
JSMag News Roundup for July 10, 2011
This week the podcast returns! Thanks for listening! Still working on getting a proper podcast XML setup, so stay tuned in.
Lessons from a rewrite
Whenever a famous JavaScript person writes a post, they usually get a lot of attention, and sometimes undeservedly so. However, Rebecca Murphey has been writing good posts lately that do deserve your attention, because they address practical problems that we're all facing as a community …
No podcast this week, but there's a ton of links to pore over! Have a great week, and tune in next time!
Libraries
pdf.js reads PDFs with JavaScript (wow!)
jsmad is a JavaScript port of libmad, which can play MP3s! Right in your browser! ( FF 4+ and Chrome 13 with Web Audio API enabled through about:flags)
flow.js aims to be a DOM Level 3 polyfill. Is it a good idea? Some think not .
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