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Freckle: Time tracking with style

Blogs - 13 hours ago

Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy are back with another web site, this time Freckle, a new take on time tracking.
Thomas posted about it on his site and shared that it uses an early build of scripty2 which lead me to peak around on GitHub. It looks nice indeed.
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HTML 5 Gecko Build

Blogs - 13 hours ago

Henri Sivonen has posted an exprimental Gecko build that parses HTML 5:

The level of quality is “It runs and some pages render!” This build is not at all suitable for normal browsing use. Please don’t use it with your usual Firefox profile. There are numerous known issues starting with b read more

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Project Deploy: Customize project directory

Blogs - 19 hours ago

Project Deploy is a simple Web application that lets you make a few choices on what your Web project needs, and then it generates a directory structure for you:

It offers a couple unique features from other project folder downloads such as customization, valid XHTML, HTML, and CSS, but t read more

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CanvasTurtle

Blogs - 19 hours ago

Eiten Suez, author of jMatter, has been up to some fun hacking recently. He just released CanvasTurtle a JavaScript and Canvas version of the old favourite TurtlePascal.
You can build snow flakes with code like this:
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Visual Event: See where behaviour has been added to a page

Blogs - 1 day 13 hours ago

Wouldn’t it be nice to take a view of your application and see where the behaviour has been added? That is what is shown above, and it is courtesy of Allan Jardine and his new Visual Event tool.
Once you hover over an event, you get to see the code that will run:

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Decoupling data and UI layers with PubSub architecture

Blogs - 1 day 19 hours ago

Marcus Westin (who we featured on finger print) gave a talk at the SF JavaScript meetup on a top that is very interesting:

One common issue in my experience are intricate dependencies between the UI and data models. Decoupling these is a huge benefit with respect to maintainability. The read more

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SmartGWT 1.0: Huge open source widget set and more

Blogs - 2 days ago

You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0.
It is a tour de force of not only a huge widget library, but he explains how it is much more:
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