Node.js now running on webOS. webOS 2.0 just came out and they use node on the OS so developers can write services for webOS phones in javascript. are they even selling the palm pre anymore?
Node.js now running on webOS. webOS 2.0 just came out and they use node on the OS so developers can write services for webOS phones in javascript. are they even selling the palm pre anymore?
Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours » Startup Monkeys. the game is very well done. you can scroll the board infinitely and place tiles.
Jackalope : Real time web stats. uses web sockets to create real-time heat maps of where user’s mouse is and where they’re clicking. if you click in a random place really quickly you can see it show up on the heat map.
Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down | Encosia. makes a couple good points about when not to use jquery’s document ready method.
Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large. some interesting comments about node and the difficulties of scaling. makes a really good point about how certain large scaling problems might require completely different patterns then your existing technology. via ram.
Ajaxian » SproutCore @ JSConf: SeedJS, great features, amazing demos. sproutcore demoed some cool features for ipad/iphone multitouch.
404 Page using CSS3 transforms/transitions · WebKitBits. that’s pretty impressive for not a lot of javascript.
Teux Deux. a nice and simple to-do list web app. via casey.
SublimeVideo. javascript plugin for controlling video in html5. looks nice.
nzakas’s computer-science-in-javascript – GitHub. guy has a bunch of standard CS algorithms (binary search, base64 encoding, etc) in javascript for teaching purposes. Come to think of it, javascript is pretty good language for teaching programming at a high school level. Code in notepad, run and debug in Firefox and it’s applicable to making your myspace profile even uglier.
Daring Fireball: PastryKit. seems apple has a demo website that uses javascript/css to do fixed-position content in the iphone browser (previously thought to be impossible) and change the default scroll-speed to make it work more like a native app. very interesting.
Highcharts – Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage. paid javascript library that makes some pretty nice canvas-based charts.
Mr Speaker presents: Parcycle. A HTML5 Canvas Particle System. nifty tool. not sure what i’d use it for. but nifty.
mkelly12’s google_closure_compiler – GitHub. rails plugin for optimizing your javascript.
Detecting Google Chrome Frame. how to detect google chrome frame in IE by user string or javascript.
High Performance Web Sites :: SpriteMe makes spriting easy. it’s a bookmarklet that suggests and generates a sprite image and css for any given page. that’s pretty impressive.
jQTouch — jQuery plugin for mobile web development. hit version 1.0. looks pretty good by default.
jquery nano. 5 lines of code to do some simple templating for javascript objects. came in handy today.
XUI | javascript micro-framework. i was thinking someone should write a stripped down jQuery for iphone web apps. someone did.
ActiveRecord.js Released as Beta: Adds Object Relational Mapping to JavaScript | Aptana. has nothing to do with Rails except using the library name. works with all major web browser storage libraries or just storing stuff in memory.
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