Lately in JavaScript podcast

16. SiteApps, Selenium 2, Node.js on Windows, JSMad and PDFKit - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 9

Posted on: 2011-07-29

On the Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 9, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal have as guest Arturs Sosins, a top contributor of many interesting JavaScript objects in the JSClasses site, to discuss some of the most interesting news of in the JavaScript world.

They cover SiteApps, a marketplace of JavaScript Web applications, Selenium testing framework version 2 release, the new Node.js version now also available on Windows, JSMad JavaScript MP3 decoding library and PDFKit library for generating PDF documents using Node.js.

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15. Google+ to Embed 3rd Party JavaScript Apps using Google Caja

Posted on: 2011-07-01

Google social network was just opened and the expectation is that it also allow embedding 3rd party apps like Facebook.

On the Lately in JavaScript Podcast episode 8 (recorded before Google+ opened) Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss the eventual support to embed Google+ Apps written in JavaScript using Google-Caja project to guarantee the security of the Apps without relying on slow loading iframes.

They also discuss the recent launch of the PDF.js project which allows rendering PDF documents using pure JavaScript code.

Additionally, they also comment on the new feature in JSClasses site which allows to easily import large JavaScript packages from version control repositories for publication in the site.

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14. Is JavaScript going to replace PHP? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 7

Posted on: 2011-06-06

So it seems that recently Douglas Crockford of Yahoo commented they are considering to replace PHP with Node.js based JavaScript for server side Web applications.

On episode 7 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal have Zachary Kessin, author of the Programming HTML 5 Applications book, to debate whether it makes sense to drop PHP for JavaScript on the server side.

They also discuss other JavaScript related topics of interest like the polemic on whether Firefox is better than Chrome for Web developers, and sources of interesting news about the JavaScript world.

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12. JavaScript jobs for JavaScript professionals, BrazilJS event - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 6

Posted on: 2011-04-28

On this episode of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, the hosts Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal have as guest Felipe Moura who came to talk about BrazilJS, a large event totally dedicated to JavaScript that will take place in Brazil in May.

They also comment on the JavaScript professionals directory and the JavaScript jobs board just launched in the JSClasses site.

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10. Developing JavaScript Applications using PHP functions - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 5

Posted on: 2011-03-28

PHP.js is a JavaScript library that provides the same functions as the PHP language in JavaScript. Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal interview Brett Zamir, one of the main developers of the PHP.JS project, to tell us more about it on episode 5 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

On this episode they also discuss the JavaScript related improvements of the latest releases of Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10 and Opera 11.

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8. Chrome OS, WebOS 2, jQuery 1.5 - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 4

Posted on: 2011-02-15

On episode 4 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss the relevance of Google Chrome OS for Web developers in general and the opportunities to developer better Web applications using special Chrome features like the Native Client interface.

They also comment on the announcement of HP Palm WebOS 2.0 and its use of JavaScript, and the release of jQuery 1.5.

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6. AJAX 2, Microsoft SunSpider cheating? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 3

Posted on: 2010-11-29

On episode 3 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss the enhancements of the XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification.

They also discuss the allegation that Microsoft could be cheating by making IE 9 perform much better than other browsers on specific tests of the SunSpider benchmark.

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4. JavaScript performance optimization tricks - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 2

Posted on: 2010-10-28

In this episode of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal discuss an unusual technique to accelerate the load of slow pages which have content retrieved from external sites using JavaScript.

They also discuss the techniques of optimizing JavaScript code presented in the High Performance JavaScript book.

Also on this episode it is discussed the launch of the jQuery Mobile project and the new Node.js screencasts site.

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3. Is NodeJS going to be the PHP of JavaScript - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 1

Posted on: 2010-09-29

In the first episode of the Lately in JavaScript podcast, Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal have Mário Valente as guest to discuss interesting topics of the current JavaScript scene, like progress of NodeJS to become a server side Web development solution similar to PHP but in JavaScript.

They also discuss matters such as why JavaScript is much better than Flash, the convinience of implementing JavaScript components and objects in the Object Oriented way, and getting seed funding for startup companies oriented to JavaScript and other Web technologies.

Also covered are the latest objects published in the JSClasses site and the latest interesting articles published in the JSMag magazine.

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