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24. Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

Posted on: 2011-12-22

This is just a short notice to let you know about a new initiative meant to encourage authors improve their participation in this site.

Read this article whether you are already a contributor or you are planning to start contributing.

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22. Tutorial Video on Importing Classes from Git, SubVersion and CVS Repositories

Posted on: 2011-11-21

This is a small note about a tutorial article and a video that was just posted to explain how to quickly import package files from remote version control repositories based on CVS, SubVersion, as well as Git which is now also supported.

Read this article, especially if you are a contributor or you are willing to share your JavaScript objects in the JSClasses site.

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21. Official JavaScript Logo, Google Dart, Amazon Silk, Jison parser generator - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 12

Posted on: 2011-11-01

Could Google Dart language be a better alternative language than JavaScript?

Will new languages like CoffeeScript emerge using the Jison JavaScript parser generator?

Will the new JavaScript logo proposal be adopted by the whole JavaScript community?

Will Amazon Silk browser provide a faster Web experience for Amazon Kindle Fire tablet users?

These and other topics are discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on episode 12 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript here.

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20. Single Page Apps Trend, Top JavaScript Developers in Every Country, Multi-threading for Node.js - Lately in JavaScript Podcast Episode 11

Posted on: 2011-10-04

Single Page Apps are becoming more and more a trend since the introduction of of the Hash Bang (#!) convention in the URLs that makes AJAX application pages crawlable by Google and other search engines that follow the convention. JavaScript frameworks that help building single page apps is one of several topic that Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal cover in the Lately in JavaScript episode 11 podcast.

They also talk about a new initiative to distinguish the top JavaScript developers in every country in the JS Classes site, as well a new extension to add multithreading support to Node.js, PhoneGap to become an Apache project, and more.

Listen to the podcast or read to the transcript to learn about these and other JavaScript topics of interest.

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19. Top Developers in Every Country

Posted on: 2011-09-28

A new feature was just launched in the JSClasses and PHPClasses sites that allows seeing which are the top developers in each country that have contributed to the sites.

Read this article to learn more about top developers by country and how you can get featured on these tops.

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17. JSClasses site 1st Anniversary

Posted on: 2011-08-25

Today we celebrate the first anniversary of the JSClasses site. Lots of accomplishments were achieved but more are planned for the future.

Read this article to learn about the current achievements and the plans for the future so you can help in making the JSClasses site better for all JavaScript developers.

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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.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript now.

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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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13. Attract more JavaScript contributors by becoming a fan of JSClasses at Facebook

Posted on: 2011-05-18

The JSClasses site has been growing at nice increasing pace but it would be better if more and more JavaScript objects were submitted to the site.

You can help by making the site more visible for instance in social networks like Facebook.

This article tells about the newly launched JSClasses site fan page at Facebook, as well about other things you can do to promote the site in order to attract more contributors that will share even more great JavaScript objects.

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11. Jobs for developers in JavaScript Professionals Directory

Posted on: 2011-04-20

The JavaScript Professionals Directory was just opened. Any JavaScript developer can join for free to receive job offers from companies looking for JavaScript professionals.

Along with this, the JavaScript jobs board of the JSClasses is also taking open for publishing job offers to developers that joined the JavaScript professionals directory. Job posting is also free.

This article explains in more detail how the JavaScript Professionals directory and the jobs board works.

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