The WebDevRadio podcast did an interview with Frank Zammetti, who has a multi-part series in JSMag on JavaScript development with Palm Pre’s webOS.  Have a listen!

Den Bagus has a writeup comparing four open source JavaScript frameworks, and I’d never heard of any of these.  Slightly embarrassing to say the least, but we’re all here to learn, right?  :)
The four he mentions are Ajax.org, UIZE, Ample and Hemlock.  I’ve just started looking at Ajax.org, and will give the others a look [...]

From Alan Williamson’s blog
As promised, I have packaged up the new javascript plugin for use with OpenBD and you can now download and start playing.
I am personally very excited about this step forward. I always believed that CFML is the best web scripting language out there on the market and when people see how easy [...]

The YUI team recently released a new version of the YUI Test framework, aimed at the YUI 3.0 library.  This article from the YUI blog describes some of the new features in more detail, but probably the biggest feature for many will be the support for mock objects.  Developers accustomed to having mock object support [...]

The qooxdoo framework recently released its 1.0 version.  I remember first looking at qooxdoo back in 2007 when evaluating JS frameworks for a company I was working at.  qooxdoo was a bit of a ‘dark horse’ at the time – we ultimately decided on YUI at that point, largely because of the documentation available for [...]

Ben Nadel has released a new JavaScript MVC framework – corMVC.  It is intentionally small, doesn’t require any sort of webserver or server-side language, and was “designed to be lowest possible entry point to learning about single-page application architecture”.  This looks like it might be a fun little project to play with and learn from, [...]

The Palm webOS team has put together a tool they call “Ares“, a web-based IDE.  It looks to be built on the Mozilla Bespin project, which itself is pretty slick, although still a bit too early for me personally to migrate to on a daily basis.  If there was a way to incorporate basic code [...]

We’re able to see the first release of Opera’s new JavaScript engine “Carakan”, bundled with the alpha release of Opera 10.5 today.  You can read more about the release here, or read more of the details about Carakan in their first announcement about it back in February.
Running the Sunspider benchmark, Opera claims that their Carakan [...]

We’ve had an increasing number of problems related to Google Checkout over the past 2 weeks.  If you have an issue receiving your PDFs after paying with Google Checkout, please contact editor@jsmag.com and include the email address you registered with and your Google Checkout receipt and we’ll take care of it ASAP – typically within [...]

We’re proud to be helping sponsor the upcoming jQuery Camp in Durham, NC.  You can visit http://ncjquerycamp2.eventbrite.com/ for more information or to sign up.  This one day event will be a great time to meet up with some of the region’s top “front-end engineering” minds, some of whom also happen to be top jQuery contributors [...]