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Cappuccino and Objective-J released as opensource

Blogs - 2 days ago

We were all very impressed with the work that the 280 North team did with 280 Slides, and they fulfilled their promise by opensourcing Cappuccino and Objective-J under LGPL:

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop read more

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Audible Ajax Episode 29: Interview with Google’s Gavin Doughtie

Blogs - 2 days ago

In the run up to The Ajax Experience conference coming up at the end of this month, Dion and I thought it would be fun to interview a few of the speakers. In this episode of Audible Ajax, we talk with Gavin Doughtie, a Dojo contributor and Google employee. The topics range from browser graphics [.. read more

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The JavaScript Framework Long Tail

Blogs - 2 days ago

One of the reasons Dion is such an effective editor here at Ajaxian is his sense for filtering all of the available news from the Ajax community down to about three stories a day. Truth-be-told, with all the submissions we get and what we find on our own, we could easily post 10 stories a [...] read more

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gameQuery:

Blogs - 2 days ago

Selim Arsever wants to make it easier to great JavaScript games, so he created gameQuery, based on jQuery.
gameQuery allows you to declare animations, which are made of one image with a succession of frames just like in a css sprite. An animation in itself doesn't exist until it's associated w read more

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jTPS: Animated Sortable Datagrid jQuery plugin

Blogs - 2 days ago

The data grid above is a jQuery plugin jTPS that creates a table you can sort and page through, using nice animations, all via a simple call out:
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IE 8 Security and nosniff

Blogs - 3 days ago

Eric Lawrence posted on IE 8 security issues in the beta 2 release, which include:

Restricting document.domain
In Internet Explorer 7, the following set of calls would succeed:
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Zend Framework 1.6: Dojo, SOAP, Testing, Tooling, and more

Blogs - 3 days ago

Andi Gutmans announced Zend Framework 1.6 which includes the new Dojo support which they put to work on the site itself:

With this release we continue to provide enterprise-grade features with our new Zend_Soap component, which brings PHP-style simplicity to building and exposing SOAP we read more

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Dojo Multifile Uploader with Flash

Blogs - 3 days ago

SitePen continues their work on Deft with a multi-file uploader:

The Dojo Toolkit now has support for multi-file uploads, thanks to the new Deft project. The dojox.form.FileUploader class embeds a hidden SWF file in the page which, when triggered, will open a system dialog that supports read more

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Brendan discusses how TraceMonkey is climbing faster; Ruby on the Web with V8

Blogs - 4 days ago

Brendan Eich jumped right in and benchmarked the tip of tree for TraceMonkey, with the V8 version that came with Google Chrome:

We win on the bit-banging, string, and regular expression benchmarks. We are around 4x faster at the SunSpider micro-benchmarks than V8.
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Adding Custom Tags To Internet Explorer, The Official Way

Blogs - 4 days ago

There have been some clever tricks to create new custom tags in Internet Explorer, such as the createElement trick. However, I never realized that Internet Explorer itself provides a facility to define new tags in the markup and have them styled, since Internet Explorer 5!
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