Latest JS Classes blog posts

JavaScript Innovation Award Challenge

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:23:29 GMT

By Manuel Lemos

The JavaScript Programming Innovation Award is initiative that will give prizes and recognition to authors that publish innovative JavaScript objects.

This award did not start yet but hopefully will be started soon. Read this article to learn more about this initiative and what you can do to help making it start as soon as possible.

Shall we always use semi-colons in JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 18

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:19:35 GMT

Shall we always use semi-colons in JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 18

By Manuel Lemos

The recent controversy about the refusal of the JSMin project to support certain unusual cases on which semi-colons were not used, raised an intense debate on whether you should always use semi-colons to delimit your JavaScript statements. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the the episode 18 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also discussed the nightmare of dealing of JSON encoded date values on different browsers, converting C/C++ libraries to JavaScript with the Emscripten project, among other interesting recent topics and happenings in the JavaScript worlds.

Watch the video, listen to the podcast, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.

Participate in the Lately in JavaScript podcast in Video with Google Hangouts

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:08:06 GMT

Participate in the Lately in JavaScript podcast in Video with Google Hangouts

By Manuel Lemos

The upcoming episodes of the Lately in JavaScript podcast will be recorded in video using the Google Hangouts service.

This is a brief note about when the next episode will be recorded and on how you can participate in the recording sessions if you are interested to have a voice and interact with other podcast participants giving your opinion on the different subjects that we will discuss.

Would you Pay for Sophisticated JavaScript Development Tools? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 17

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:25:58 GMT

Would you Pay for Sophisticated JavaScript Development Tools? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 17

By Manuel Lemos

Bret Victor presented his game development platform that provides sophisticated JavaScript development features that allow for instance to interactively change your JavaScript code while the game is running.

Would you pay to have a tool like this to develop your JavaScript projects more productively? This was one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 17 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Among other topics, they also covered other interesting JavaScript topics like Felipe Moura's Root3D 3D modeling tool based on CSS 3 and JavaScript, choosing task specific JavaScript frameworks with the MicroJS site, the new PHP extension that runs JavaScript code using the V8 engine.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcription to learn more about these and other JavaScript topics that were discussed.

Can Apache 2.4 Match Node.js Event processing efficiency? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 16

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:20:26 GMT

Can Apache 2.4 Match Node.js Event processing efficiency? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 16

By Manuel Lemos

Apache 2.4 was just released. Among other enhancements it provides a new processing mode that works based on events, somewhat like Node.js.

In the episode 15 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss whether Apache 2.4 can be used with the same advantages of Node.js with the new event based processing mode.

Other than that, they also discuss other happenings in the JavaScript worlds like the use of UI sheets to make faster AJAX applications, Twitter to abandon the hash bang URLs, and the difficulties of dealing with times and dates exchanged between the browser and the server.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript now to learn about these and other JavaScript topics.

Can ActionScript really be Faster Than JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 15

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:15:53 GMT

Can ActionScript really be Faster Than JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 15

By Manuel Lemos

Adobe is still claiming that ActionScript (used in Flash) is faster than JavaScript. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal with the guest Zach Kession on the episode 15 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

On the Flash versus JavaScript matter they discussed the probably reasons for the difference of performance and smoothness of animations with Impress.js versus Prezi.

They also debate whether using CoffeeScript can really benefit the productivity of JavaScript developers, as well the benefits of using Underscore.js to manipulate data sets.

JavaScript Zeitgeist 2011 - What JavaScript Developers have been Searching for in 2011?

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:45:23 GMT

JavaScript Zeitgeist 2011 - What JavaScript Developers have been Searching for in 2011?

By Manuel Lemos

The JavaScript Zeitgeist is an initiative meant to determine what JavaScript developers have been more interested in the recent times.

The JSClasses site has just computed and published the top trending searches of 2011.

Read this article to learn what are those trends of the JavaScript world.

Retrospective of the JavaScript World in 2011 and What to Expect for 2012- Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 14

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:50:42 GMT

Retrospective of the JavaScript World in 2011 and What to Expect for 2012- Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 14

By Manuel Lemos

The year 2011 has ended with lots of interesting developments in the JavaScript world. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the episode 14 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Things like the progressive death of Flash, the increased pace of development of newer browser versions, single page Web apps, etc.. were just a few of aspects they commented.

They also covered some of the most impressive JavaScript libraries released in 2011 and what they expect for 2012 in the JavaScript world.

Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:48:12 GMT

Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

By Manuel Lemos

This is just a short notice to let you know about a new initiative meant to encourage authors improve their participation in this site.

Read this article whether you are already a contributor or you are planning to start contributing.

Can JavaScript Totally Replace Flash Now? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 13

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:44:45 GMT

Can JavaScript Totally Replace Flash Now? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 13

By Manuel Lemos

Now that Adobe has given up for the development of the Flash plug-in for mobile browsers, many users want them to go ahead and cease Flash development completely, as HTML 5 capable browsers can do most with JavaScript APIs of what can be done with Flash.

The question is: can JavaScript APIs really do all that can be done with Flash? This was the main topic of the episode 13 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal, along with the guest, Dino Gambone, a Web developer enthusiast JavaScript based games.

They also cover the recent capability of Googlebot to execute JavaScript to crawl Facebook comments, the ScriptCover extension for performing JavaScript code coverage and animation timeline visual editing with Timeline.js.

Listen to the podcast or read to the audio transcript now to know more about these topics of discussion.