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libuv Status Report
Ryan Dahl posted a status report for libuv to the Node blog, and described some of the background to libuv and reviewed the features implemented so far. This includes non-blocking TCP sockets (using IOCP in Windows), non-blocking named pipes, UDP , timers, child process spawning, asynchronous DNS , asynchronous file APIs…
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jQuery Mockjax
jQuery Mockjax ( GitHub: appendto / jquery-mockjax , License: MIT or GPL ) by Jonathan Sharp is a library for mocking jQuery's network requests. This can be useful when writing tests. It can mock the same data types that jQuery supports: text, HTML , JSON , JSONP , Script, and XML .
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 …
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jquery-expander
The Expander Plugin (License: MIT and GPL ) by Karl Swedberg can collapse part of an element's content and add ‘read more' links. Truncation is based on characters, and this can be changed along with many other things when invoking the plugin:
$ ( selector ). expander ({ slicePoint : 100 , preserveWords : true , expandText …
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NodObjC
NodObjC ( npm: NodObjC ) by Nathan Rajlich is an Objective-C bridge:
It uses the BridgeSupport files to dynamically generate an API from an Objective-C " Framework", and uses node-ffi to dynamically interact with the Objective-C runtime.
If you're an Objective-C developer, then you should be able to follow this basic app structure:
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jQuery 1.6.4
jQuery 1.6.4 is out already! This version fixes issues discovered in the last release:
# 10194 - Data attribute names with single dash-surrounded letters cannot be accessed by the camel-case name
# 10208 - $("form").live("submit", fn) not fired from <button type="submit"> in IE8
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Windows Performance Boost
I noticed Ryan Dahl post a link to these Node http_simple benchmarks on Twitter:
nodejs v0.5 benchmarks gist.github.com/1166690 (still some work to do on libuv backend but Windows is on par with Linux now!)
- @ ryah
This is good news for Windows developers, and again demonstrates the phenomenal progress we're seeing on libuv.
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Node 0.5.4
Node 0.5.4 was released last week. This version introduces yet more Windows improvements through libuv. It can now be built on Microsoft Visual Studio via GYP . There are also bug fixes, and V8 has been updated to 3.5.4.
Multimeter
Multimeter (npm: multimeter ) is another interesting project by James Halliday. This one generates …
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jquery.terminal
jquery.terminal ( GitHub: jcubic / jquery.terminal , License: LGPL 3 ) by Jakub Jankiewicz helps create client-side command-line applications. With one line of code it'll display an interpreter for JSON - RPC services, and even supports authentication. Keyboard shortcuts like ctrl+d are supported, and history can be saved to local storage.
