Okay, the news this week leans pretty heavily towards general web development stuff rather than Javascript specifically, but it’s good stuff. I promise.
ChromeKit
ChromeKit is a new library for creating desktop-like UI elements in the browser. It allows you to create windows with full chrome that allow you to do all of the things you’d expect [...]
Another week is on its way out, so it’s time to look back at some of the cool stuff you folks have been working on in the week that was.
Ext JS is now Sencha
Ext JS, the company behind the Ext JS Javascript libraries and tools, has changed its name to Sencha. To go along with [...]
I just played with JSonduit, and was able to make a data feed from the JSMag blog feed in about 6 minutes.
http://jsonduit.com/feedinfo.html?id=7q6 takes you to the feed info, with the ability to create a custom widget for display on a site.
With some slightly stronger authoring tools, this would allow ‘common folk’ to identify parts of [...]
Connect
Tim Caswell and TJ Holowaychuck, both of whom are members of the ExtJS team, have just released Connect: a middleware framework for NodeJS. In his blog post announcing Connect, Caswell cites Ruby’s Rack as an inspiration for the project.
A Connect server runs a set of middleware modules, each of which performs a specific action when [...]
JAVASCRIPT UI ARCHITECTURE PART II
Kyle Simpson continues his look at JavaScript front-end architecture.
GRAPHING WITH FLOT
Jason Gilmore introduces the Flot graphing library.
GOOD CODING PRACTICES
Evandro Miller illustrates some of the most common JavaScript bad usage cases and shows alternatives to accomplish the same tasks with clean, non-obtrusive script.
SECURING WEB APPLICATIONS PART II
Tom Hughes-Croucher wraps up his look [...]
AppengineJS
Yes, it’s true! You can now run Javascript applications on Google’s App Engine platform thanks to the new AppengineJS project. The project is based on Rhino, the Java-based Javascript runtime, which is why it can run on Google’s Java- and Python-only platform. Of course, since Rhino has been around forever, simply executing Javascript on App [...]
