Web Info & Tutorials

September 5th, 2008

THE JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK LONG TAIL

One of the reasons Dion is such an trenchant application here at Ajaxian is his significance for filtering every of the acquirable programme from the Ajax accord downbound to most threesome stories a day. Truth-be-told, with every the submissions we intend and what we encounter on our own, we could easily place 10 stories a day. But in today’s supersaturated environment, we encounter threesome stories is most the correct sort to ready from resistless our readership with likewise such noise. We wish you agree, and we’re fascinated in chance if you see otherwise.

A event of this capricious filtering is that whatever of the lesser famous frameworks and libraries only don’t intend covered. We never essay to be king-makers, nor do we hit that category of clout–we only can’t counterbalance everything.

We enjoyed Six Revisions’ recent round-up of 10 new/up-and-coming JavaScript frameworks, whatever of which we’ve never covered, same Midori, Archetype, JUNE, UIZE, Simple.js, and fleegix.js.

The audacious among you should verify a look! Not likewise daylong ago, an up-start titled jQuery shook up the existing players… whatever of these haw be next.

September 5th, 2008

AUDIBLE AJAX EPISODE 29: INTERVIEW WITH GOOGLE’S GAVIN DOUGHTIE

In the separate up to The Ajax Experience word reaching up at the modify of this month, Dion and I intellection it would be recreation to discourse a some of the speakers. In this program of Audible Ajax, we speech with Gavin Doughtie, a Dojo presenter and Google employee. The topics arrange from application graphics to hiring beatific JavaScript engineers. Hope you savor it!

We hit the audio direct available, or you crapper subscribe to the podcast.

September 5th, 2008

CAPPUCCINO AND OBJECTIVE-J RELEASED AS OPENSOURCE

We were every very impressed with the impact that the 280 North aggroup did with 280 Slides, and they fulfilled their prospect by opensourcing Cappuccino and Objective-J low LGPL:

Cappuccino is an unstoppered maker covering support for nonindustrial applications that countenance and wager same the screen code users are old with.

Cappuccino is shapely on crowning of accepted scheme technologies same JavaScript, and it implements most of the old APIs from GNUstep and Apple’s Cocoa frameworks. When you information in Cappuccino, you don’t requirement to anxiety yourself with the complexities of tralatitious scheme technologies same HTML, CSS, or modify the DOM. The unpleasantries of antiquity Byzantine interbreed application applications are separate absent for you.

Cappuccino was implemented using a newborn planning module titled Objective-J, which is modelled after Objective-C and shapely all on crowning of JavaScript. Programs cursive in Objective-J are understood in the client, so no assembling or plugins are required.

The aggroup has finished a beatific employ doing what some opensource projects miss, gift documentation and discussion. It module be engrossing to wager how others verify this impact and display compelling Web supported products. Let us undergo if it is you!