Showing posts with label JavaScript. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JavaScript. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Backbone.js – 1.0 Released...

Backbone.js is a very popular JavaScript framework, used in many of today's busiest websites.  Today it has it's first official “one point oh” release.  Congratulations!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

RAW Image File Processing – in JavaScript

Nothing special about this package that I can see except for the fact that it's running in your browser.  Despite the fact that I've been working with web apps for over 10 years now, I'm still blown away that they can do compute-intensive things like image processing and cryptography, in an interpreted language like JavaScript...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Mozilla Gives It the Old College Try...

Recognizing that many developers (myself most definitely not amongst them) look down upon JavaScript as a sort of “toy” language, Mozilla makes a valiant attempt to spiff up its image.  You JavaScript decriers out there: does this change your mind?

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

JavaScript Best Practices...

A nice little compilation and discussion of mostly common-sense practices – but if you're new to JavaScript, this is quite handy!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

JavaScript Prototypes...

Yehuda Katz is on a roll, with a nice post about JavaScript prototypes...

Friday, August 12, 2011

JavaScript Function Invocation...

A nice article by Yehuda Katz on a subject many JavaScript programmers don't really understand...

Monday, May 30, 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Seriously Geeky...

What if you wanted to run Linux right in your web browser?  How would you do it?

Well, of course what you would do is to write a JavaScript emulation of an x86 processor and its peripherals, then port Linux to that.  Or at least that's what Fabrice Bellard did, just for fun.  Be sure to check out the technical notes.

Awesome, dude!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Amazing What You Can Do...

...in a modern web browser.  A JavaScript stats package, including graphing...

Monday, March 14, 2011

JavaScript Garden...

This is potentially of use to any JavaScript jockeys out there...

Sunday, January 23, 2011

So You Think You're a JavaScript Whiz?

Try this mind-bender!  What does this JavaScript expression do, if executed in a browser?
($=[$=[]][(__=!$+$)[_=-~-~-~$]+({}+$)[_/_]+($$=($_=!''+$)[_/_]+$_[+$])])()[__[_/_]+__[_+~$]+$_[_]+$$](_/_)
The answer can be found here, once you give up trying to figure it out...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Monday, December 6, 2010

MathJax...

Interesting new JavaScript library.  Interesting, that is, if you want to display equations and formulae on your web site...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Cryptography in JavaScript...

Challenging objective: “build a secure, powerful, fast, small, easy-to-use, cross-browser library for cryptography in Javascript” – claimed met.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Crockford on JavaScript...

Transcripts and videos of Douglas Crockford's lecture series on JavaScript.  I haven't read or watched them yet, but hey, it's Crockford – you know it's going to be good...