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October 2009 JSMag now available

Here’s a rundown of what we’ve got lined up for you in this issue.
Stateful jQuery Plugins – Learn about creating your own, from Scott Gonzalez.
IDE Head to Heard part I – Shea Frederick reviews JavaScript functionality in the leading IDEs.
Dojo Confessions – Rebecca Murphey compares Dojo with jQuery.
Inline Editing with YUI – Christian Tiberg demonstrates [...]

Have your picture on our cover!

Each month, JSMag selects a photo from the JavaScript user community to be on our cover.  If your photograph is chosen, you’ll win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com.  Interested in submitting?  It’s easy!

Upload your photo to flickr.com and tag it as ‘jsmag’.
Photos should be black and white.
Photos should be high resolution (approximately 2400 px [...]

August JSMag now available

Here’s a rundown of what we’ve got lined up for you in this issue.
Cross-Domain AJAX with Pure JavaScript – Frank Zammetti shows you just how it’s done.
Events, the Marco-Polo of JavaScript – Join Shea Frederick as he takes a closer look at event
handling in JavaScript and just what it’s good for.
The Yahoo! Query Language and [...]

JavaScript Magazine – JSMag – July 2009 now available

The primary goal of JSMag has been to bring you interesting and useful information to help improve your use of JavaScript.  The secondary goal has been to expose new voices and ideas that you might not otherwise have stumbled across.  While I think we’ve been successful thus far, some of the feedback received has led [...]

JSMag June 2009 now available

Buy it today!
Build Scripts: Optimize Code for Every Environment
Tom Hughes-Croucher demonstrates how to develop a build process to optimize your javascript code.
Behavior Driven Development
Ed Spencer walks you through using the Jspec tool to think about testing in a new way.
Don’t be lax about AJAX attacks
Concerned about security in your applications? You should be, and
Robert Cameron [...]

JSMag May 2009 now available

The May 2009 JSMag is now available. This month:

Mashups from the Ground Up (Josh Holmes)
Flex/AJAX Bridge Gotchas (Michael Pelz-Sherman)
Demystifying Custom Events in jQuery (Rebecca Murphey)
Web Testing with Windmill (Adam Christian)
RIA Revolution (Leon Gersing)
Book excerpt from “JavaScript for Programmers” (Deitel, Deitel)
Community News (Matt Henry)

More info can be found at http://jsmag.com/latest

Call for JavaScript authors

JSMag is always looking for article contributions from the talented JavaScript community.  Want to share a new technique you’ve developed or learned?  Want an excuse to explore some of your favorite tools more deeply than you normally get to?  Write an article for JSMag!
Email your ideas to editor@jsmag.com and we’ll get the ball rolling.  FYI: [...]

Book drawing contest winner

We held a drawing for a copy of the new book “JavaScript for Programmers” (Deitel & Deitel, from Prentice Hall) from all users registered to JSMag (no purchase necessary).  By the power of rand(), the selected winner is Alvin Ashcraft!  Congrats Alvin!  Alvin can also be found working over at Dzone’s .NET zone in some [...]

Cover art contest

JSMag is holding a contest to find a cover photo for its next issue.  The selected winner will receive a gift certificate to BN.com or Amazon.com (winner’s choice) and a free subscription to JSMag.
Submitted photos need to be black and white, and at a resolution for printing, but other than those requirements, the subject matter [...]

JSMag now supports Google Checkout

We’ve had Google Checkout support on GroovyMag for a couple months now, but had not enabled it for JSMag until today.  As with everything, there may be a hiccup, but initial tests on our end showed it to be working.  Some users had notified us that they couldn’t purchase using PayPal, but Google Checkout should [...]