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Using a JavaScript Profiler for Fun and Profit: HTML5 Canvas Example

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0 replies - 3604 views - 01/25/12 by Simon Sarris in Articles

JavaScript Modules

One of the first challenges developers new to JavaScript who are building large applications will have to face is how to go about organizing their code. Most start by embedding hundreds of lines of code between a <script> tag which works but quickly...

1 replies - 4067 views - 01/24/12 by David Padbury in Articles

From Java to Node.js

I’ve been developing for quite a while and in quite a few languages.  Somehow though, I’ve always seemed to fall back to Java when doing my own stuff – maybe partly from habit, partly because it has in my opinion the best open source selection out...

0 replies - 5347 views - 01/10/12 by Christopher Smith in Articles

DZone Top Articles of 2011: Why Java Developers Hate JavaScript

This is the first entry in DZone's series that will revisit the top articles of 2011 throughout the month of January 2012.  As a Java developer, I used to hate JavaScript. At one time I used to say “friends don’t let friends use JavaScript”.

23 replies - 21702 views - 01/03/12 by Gordon Dickens in News

There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript

About 3 years ago, I launched my first product. I built it with two fabulous partners, who continue to produce awesome things. It was a little app, and a tool I thought made for better web. It is no longer online, due to costs, it was a URL aggregator...

2 replies - 4641 views - 12/29/11 by Sara Chipps in Articles

HTML5 on Android 4.0: Way Better, Still Behind iOS 5

So affirms Sencha, in the latest installment of their HTML5 developer scorecards series.Four-sentence version:

0 replies - 6017 views - 12/20/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Riak with node.js

Lots of interesting applications are being developed nowadays with the combination of node.js and a NoSQL store.  Learn how to use Riak from...

0 replies - 2595 views - 12/10/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

Nodejs and MongoDB, A Beginner’s Approach

This is not a book and I didn’t try to sell a book to you.

0 replies - 6686 views - 12/02/11 by Kristiono Setyad in Articles

A Look at the NoSQL Landscape

Take a look at the current landscape of NoSQL stores and figure out why you might need NoSQL in this recent podcast where Bruce Elgort talks with Mark Myers from the London Developer Co-op.  Here's a shortlist of the things they will discuss:

1 replies - 3597 views - 12/01/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Performance of Google’s V8 Javascript engine in Solr

The use of scripting languages to add new functionality to systems is something that I’ve always found very helpful. You don’t have to download the source code of the system, if it has “scriptable” parts you can add simple functionality in minutes...

0 replies - 3490 views - 11/15/11 by Emmanuel Espina in Articles

Developing with HTML5, CoffeeScript and Twitter's Bootstrap

This article is the fourth in a series about my adventures developing a Fitness Tracking application with HTML5, Play Scala, CoffeeScript and Jade. Previous articles can be found at:

0 replies - 3777 views - 10/21/11 by Matt Raible in Articles

Google's "Dart" on the JVM

Google's newest programming language can now be run on the JVM, thanks to the JDart project hosted on Google Code. Unveiled at the goto conference last week, the Dart language is seen by some to be suitable for Java developers who can't get into Javascript.

0 replies - 6074 views - 10/18/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Douglas Crockford Answers DZone's Questions on JavaScript

CoffeeScript, node.js, ECMAScript, and even Google's new Dart usurper language were topics of discussion last week when I had the unique opportunity to meet one of the major luminaries in the world of JavaScript while he was speaking at North Carolina State...

2 replies - 7754 views - 09/13/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Google Dart to “ultimately ... replace JavaScript”

The following keynote will be held at the GOTO Aarhus 2011 Conference on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011: “Dart, a new programming language for structured web programming” This post explains what Dart is all about and how it relates to JavaScript.

5 replies - 12527 views - 09/12/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News

CouchDB jQuery Plugin Reference

I’ve had a difficult time finding documentation on the CouchDB jQuery plugin that ships with CouchDB. So, I’ve decided to create my own reference and share it with you. This should cover almost the entire CouchDB API that is available through the...

2 replies - 4767 views - 09/11/11 by Bradley Holt in Articles