A Shiny New Me: Bridging The PhoneGap: ChildBrowser Plugin
This is the first post in a series that I have been meaning to write for a while. PhoneGap (now called Cordova) is the defacto platform for building native applications with HTML5. In the past few years we have seen quite a few JavaScript frameworks pop up to help you with your UI, which has…
Source: burkeholland
Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17” laptop screen or an iPhone.
Source: getskeleton.com
scttnlsn: Why I’m excited about JavaScript and Node.js
I’m really excited about the web. For the first time, I am seeing it as a medium to deliver applications that rival native user experience and take advantage of the web’s distributed nature. With browsers becoming increasingly capable, applications can now be built entirely with JavaScript and run…
Source: scttnlsn
Shaper is an extensible framework for JavaScript syntax tree shaping, created by Olov Lassus.
Shaper manipulates the syntax tree representation of your JS source code, and then turns it back into source code again. It goes very far to keep all your source code formatting, indentation, whitespace and comments intact.
Source: jsshaper.org
LAMP Replacement: The Jason Stack
Janos stands for: JavaScript, Node.js, and a NoSQL database. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer:
It is very fortunate for JavaScript programmers that two things have become popular: JSON as a data transfer format (for web services etc.) and NoSQL databases. Both are perfect fits for JavaScript: JSON uses JavaScript syntax. Schema-less databases make things as flexible on the database side as they are on the programming language side; you get the advantages of object-oriented databases without their messiness.
Even if I’m collecting some more interesting examples of Node.js + NoSQL database, I’m still not convinced that Node’s event-oriented approach is meant to replace the Apache + Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby or the heavy lifting Tomcat + Java server side components. But I can see it used in the “small- to medium-scale” apps.
Original title and link: LAMP Replacement: The Jason Stack (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
Source: nosql
AliceJS - (A Lightweight Independent CSS Engine) is a micro JavaScript library focused on using hardware-accelerated capabilities (in particular CSS3 features) in modern browsers for generating high-quality, high-end visual effects.
Source: blackberry.github.com
destroy/dstorey: The makeup of the Open Web stack
The Open Web has never had as many capabilities as it has today. We’re seeing an explosion in new or updated specifications, and prototype and stable implementations to go with them. This blog post will look back as the platform we have had available (Called Open Web 0 here) and then looks forward…
Source: dstorey
Full Fucking Service: Reckless web development practices are encouraging idiots
Or, how content is suffering because of lazy people who don’t understand that a strong web relies on addressable content with access to all.
Reckless web development practices are encouraging idiots and prolonging the cycle of ignorance in front-end development and its associated industries.…
Source: fullfuckingservice
Responsive Design Testing: Test your responsive web designs
Responsive Design Testing is a great tool by Matt Kersley to test responsive web designs. You can quickly test your designs in multiple screen widths.
You can even share a link with someone by adding your URL to the end of the testing page. For example: google.com.
Special thanks to Ryan Carson of Carsonified for sharing this on Twitter.
Source: thechangelog
Smooth CoffeeScript is a free book about CoffeeScript and programming. Over 200 pages to guide you and 35 exercises to solve.
Go from scratch through functional programming in Underscore over object orientation to a client and server web application with HTML5 Canvas and WebSockets.
No previous programming knowledge is required. If you already know a scripting language then scan through the Language part and dive into the Paradigm chapters.
The download includes everything except a functioning installation of CoffeeScript; see coffeescript.org and page 9 in the book to get started. There are two editions of the book and its software included:
Challenge edition is for self study. It is in ‘Smooth CoffeeScript - No Solutions.pdf’ and the src-no-solutions directory.
Instructor edition has in-line solutions for all exercises. Peek here if I did not explain things well enough for you to solve an exercise. It is in ‘Smooth CoffeeScript.pdf’ and the src directory.
Source: autotelicum.github.com
Present JavaScript in its native environment.
If you’re making a presentation on JavaScript, make it in JavaScript.
Write your slideshow in HTML, style it with CSS and control it with some jQuery-powered JavaScript. When you’re done, Fathom.js even lets you sync the video of your presentation quickly and easily.
Fathom.js comes with mouse, keyboard and scroll bar navigation built in and provides a simple API for creating your own custom interfaces.
Source: markdalgleish.com
Addy Osmani Presents jQuery & JavaScript Articles for the Dev Community
Addy Osmani is a member of the jQuery Bug Triage and API Docs teams and offers up his blog with current and modern takes on JavaScript development.
Source: addyosmani.com
GameBoy Online is a GameBoy Color emulator written purely in JavaScript by Grant Galitz. The video is done either through HTML5 <canvas> or by a fallback of creating BMP binary picture format data URI strings and appending the result to regular HTML img tags.
Save states are implemented through the window.localStorage object, and are serialized/deserialized through JSON. SRAM saving is also implemented through the window.localStorage object, and are serialized/deserialized through JSON. In order for save states to work properly on most browsers, you need set the maximum size limit for DOM storage higher, to meet the needs of the emulator’s save data size.
You can download GameBoy Online’s sourcecode and/or read more about it at it’s GitHub repository
Source: grantgalitz.org
Beginning JavaScript is the site accompaniment for Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax written by @codepo8.
Beginning JavaScript even offers a free pdf download chapter excerpt so you can get a feel for what you are getting into!
You should buy the book (here!), aside from what you’ll learn, but to support JavaScript, proper JavaScript references and also to support the author.
Even if you don’t own it, you can still look at and download the code examples, which are quite detailed and great building blocks for learning proper JavaScript.
Source: beginningjavascript.com
