JavaScript Unlimited

"Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntro..."

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:23:06 GMT

"Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntrospection) the WebKit JavaScriptCore engine, with the GObject type system. In a more concrete sense, Seed enables you to immediately write applications around a significant portion of the GNOME platform, and easily embed JavaScript as a scripting-language in your GObject library."

–Seed

Web Runtime for Nokia S60 devices

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:26:26 GMT

The WRT allows developers to write applications for the S60 using HTML, JS and CSS

http://library.forum.nokia.com/index.jsp?topic=/Web_Developers_Library/GUID-4D13AF3F-4733-44E7-996F-F27A11C9D6BF_cover.html

YUI Doc: A New Tool for Generating JavaScript API Documentation » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:02:39 GMT

JS code doesn't have a lot of options for documentation generation – a couple exist, but certainly don't have the support and validity that YUI brings. Very interesting.

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/08/yuidoc/

Appcelerator Titanium

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:42:07 GMT

An interesting AIR-like platform, but focused on HTML/JS apps. True open source built on Webkit+Gears with extensible capabilities. This is compelling stuff.

http://titaniumapp.com/

Getting Started with JavaScript Unit Testing and YUI Test

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:05:19 GMT

"YUI Test is our framework for unit testing JavaScript. The goal of YUI Test is to make creating JavaScript unit tests fast and easy. We know from experience that developers’ main complaint about unit testing is that it takes too long, so everything about YUI Test is designed to make this process easier."

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/01/yuitest-getting-started/

GnomeShell

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:14:21 GMT

The Gnome Shell is powered by Clutter and JavaScript

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

CouchDB from Far Away

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:30:16 GMT

I thought I’d try and describe CouchDB from the point of view of someone who’s been using and developing for it for a couple months. Hopefully I can manage to paint a bit of an overall picture that tries to help new comers understand some of the more basic ideas of CouchDB.

http://www.davispj.com/couchdb/overview/far-away.html

Unit Testing in JavaScript

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:26:32 GMT

Last week a colleague asked for my help finding better unit test tools for Java Script. He's done some digging on the state of the art with JavaScript unit tests and finds the whole lot wanting.

http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2008/11/unit-testing-in-javascript.html

RESTful Jaxer | Aptana

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:23:09 GMT

With Jaxer 1.0, you can easily create a variety of web services: RESTful, RPC-based, and almost anything else you can imagine. Hooks are already in place for a generic web service and for automatic RPC-based services. Here I'll demonstrate a simple RESTful service based on the generic web service hook.

http://www.aptana.com/blog/uri/restful_jaxer

EtherPad: Real-time Editing with JavaScript

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:18:17 GMT

http://ejohn.org/blog/etherpad-real-time-editing-with-javascript/

ExtPlayer - An MP3 Player developed with Adobe AIR and Ext JS

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:14:52 GMT

http://extjs.com/blog/2008/11/24/extplayer-air-and-ext/

ejacs - Google Code

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:13:18 GMT

Ejacs is an Ecma-262 compliant JavaScript interpreter written entirely in Emacs Lisp. It should work in GNU Emacs versions 22 and higher.

http://code.google.com/p/ejacs/

Creating Adobe AIR game controlled with a Wii remote

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:10:52 GMT

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&postid=10884&loc=en_US&productid=4

JazzRecord is ActiveRecord for JavaScript

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:35:46 GMT

"JazzRecord is a simplified ActiveRecord clone for JavaScript platforms with database access. It currently supports Gears and Adobe AIR. Like ActiveRecord, Jazz is free and open-source software. And in being inspired by ActiveRecord, Jazz seeks to minimize its learning curve by mimicking ActiveRecord style and conventions."

http://www.jazzrecord.org/

JSSpec

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:59:41 GMT

"JavaScript BehaviorDrivenDevelopment Framework"

A JS test framework, used by the MooTools project and others.

http://jania.pe.kr/aw/moin.cgi/JSSpec

Windmill - JavascriptTests

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:37:57 GMT

"Windmill is an Open Source AJAX Web UI Testing framework that was originally built to automate testing for the Chandler Server Project at OSAF. After spending time with Selenium we realized we had a variety of needs that weren't being fulfilled and built Windmill from the ground up."

The Windmill project has a JS testing framework as part of its comprehensive web app test suite.

http://trac.getwindmill.com/wiki/BookChapter-4-3-JavascriptTests

JsUnit (the second)

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:37:11 GMT

"JsUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests in JavaScript. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. JsUnit is a port of JUnit 3.8.1 originally written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It covers the core system and the examples."

So apparently there are two different JsUnits, which is kinda poor.

http://jsunit.berlios.de/

Test - JavaScriptMVC

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:03:24 GMT

"Test is a JavaScript testing library that simulates your application functionality and verifies it's working correctly. You can do this by simulating DOM events and combination events like write and drag. You can also test your Ajax functionality by simulating Ajax requests. Then use assertions to check for correct behavior."

This appears to be designed to work with the JavascriptMVC framework, but other references in the site imply that it can be used with non-JavascriptMVC setups.

http://javascriptmvc.com/learningcenter/test/learn.html

JSMock - A Mock Object library for JavaScript

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:59:39 GMT

"JSMock is a fully featured Mock Object library for JavaScript that provides the necessary tools to do effective interactive based testing. JSMock provides expectation recording and matching, and has the ability to return, throw, and stub on object method calls. The interface is simple and easy to use, which makes testing easy."

http://jsmock.sourceforge.net/

JSCoverage - code coverage for JavaScript

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:58:57 GMT

"JSCoverage is a tool that measures code coverage for JavaScript programs."

http://siliconforks.com/jscoverage/

JavaScript Assertion Unit Framework

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:58:08 GMT

http://jsassertunit.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html

QUnit - jQuery JavaScript Library

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:54:30 GMT

QUnit is the unit testrunner for the jQuery project.

http://docs.jquery.com/QUnit

JsUnit

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:53:07 GMT

"JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and mutiple machines running different OSs. Its development began in January 2001."

http://www.jsunit.net/

Blackbird - Open Source JavaScript Logging Utility

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:18:36 GMT

"Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again."

http://www.gscottolson.com/blackbirdjs/

Safely parsing JSON in JavaScript

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:12:56 GMT

I wrote this, but cross-promotion is what it's all about, right?

http://funkatron.com/site/comments/safely-parsing-json-in-javascript/

Jaxer CRUD

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:53:07 GMT

"With this in mind, I’ve worked up some code example for CRUD operations using the Jaxer database API. This is a simple example, intended to help folks climb up the Jaxer learning curve. The complete source code for the example is at the bottom of this post."

http://beavercreekconsulting.com/blog/2008/08/jaxer-crud/

Extreme JavaScript Performance

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:44:36 GMT

"JavaScript engines are serving as the test bed for new forms of dynamic language optimization. No other language is seeing this level of competition and rapid improvement that JavaScript is. This is optimal considering that JavaScript is one of the most widely-deployed programming languages available."

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/10/07/extreme-javascript-performance

Jaxer 1.0 Release Candidate now available. | Aptana

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:43:06 GMT

"Aptana Jaxer, the open-source Ajax server that embeds the Mozilla browser engine server-side, is nearing its first release. There's been lots of work on Jaxer with significant community feedback and ideas coming from the Jaxer betas over the summer. This latest (and probably last before 1.0) release candidate packs in some great performance enhancements like native JSON as well as a brand new built-in capability for easily dispatching RESTful and RPC service requests. And like before we're looking for feedback before we finalize and ship 1.0."

http://www.aptana.com/blog/khakman/jaxer10rc

JSCocoa — A bridge from JavascriptCore to Cocoa

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:44:45 GMT

"JSCocoa bridges Cocoa to JavascriptCore (WebKit's JS engine). It allows you to call C code, ObjC code, use C structs, and build Javascript classes inheriting from ObjC classes."

http://inexdo.com/JSCocoa

Er.js: Erlang-in-JavaScript

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:35:22 GMT

"Erlang-style concurrency with JavaScript 1.7"

http://beatniksoftware.com/erjs/

Practical Functional JavaScript: Code Samples

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:43:32 GMT

http://osteele.com/talks/ajaxian-2008/samples/

Raphaël—JavaScript Library

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:38:48 GMT

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. In case you want to create your own specific chart or image crop-n-rotate widget, you can simply achieve it with this library.

http://raphaeljs.com/

Nihilogic: 23 pretty JavaScript fractals

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:25:14 GMT

"The previous post about the size optimized Mandelbrot renderers didn't really do the Mandelbrot set justice in terms of mathematical and aesthetical prettiness. So, armed with my two good friends, Canvas and JavaScript, I set out to further explore the infinite beauty and complexity of both the Mandelbrot set and other fractals."

http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/10/23-pretty-javascript-fractals.html

Introducing JStORM - Uriel Katz Blog

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:14:21 GMT

"I am happy to announce the first beta of JStORM,a complete rewrite of GearsORM to support multiple backends,currently supporting Jaxer(MySQL and Sqlite) and Google Gears(Sqlite)."

AIR support is also in SVN.

http://www.urielkatz.com/archive/detail/introducing-jstorm/

Life: The game in Canvas

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:09:35 GMT

Cool use of JS and the Canvas element (which is present in AIR, among other browser tech-based desktop platforms).

http://ajaxian.com/archives/life-the-game-in-canvas

Ajaxian » New Netflix Developer APIs

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:08:10 GMT

"Since IMDB lacks an API (and the community-provided APIs seem to be in various stages of disrepair — note that the site linked to in this story is now down), this fully-supported offering from Netflix seems quite interesting indeed. Check out their blog post announcing the features and their new developer portal."

Ripe for a variety of apps, it seems.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/new-netflix-developer-apis

Practical Functional JavaScript

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:53:09 GMT

"Oliver Steele gave a great talk at The Ajax Experience this week on Practical Functional JavaScript."

http://ajaxian.com/archives/practical-functional-javascript

Learning Advanced JavaScript

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:42:29 GMT

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

Hidden Features of JavaScript - Stack Overflow

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:57:35 GMT

"Even though JavaScript is arguably the most important Client Side language right now (just ask Google) it's surprising how little most web developers appreciate how powerful it really is."

Yeah, these aren't really "hidden," but hey.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61088/hidden-features-of-javascript

"eval is Evil The eval function is the most misused feature of JavaScript. ..."

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:59:11 GMT

`eval` is Evil

The eval function is the most misused feature of JavaScript. Avoid it.

eval has aliases. Do not use the Function constructor. Do not pass strings to setTimeout or setInterval.

–Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language