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An epic interview/group discussion featuring Brendan Eich where he walks through JavaScript’s history, warts and all. A lot of back-story and interesting tangents here. It’s almost two hours long but worth the listen to get more insights into JavaScript and its development.
JavaScript Jabber
An easy to understand JavaScript DSL to make writing and debugging integration tests in an English-like Cucumber/Gherkin-style simpler. It interacts with your app via a real browser to test its state against your expectations.
MojoTech
Frontend Masters
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A look at some of the more sophisticated or interesting ways to create and work with objects, including ES6’s proxies and symbols. If you want to do some diving into JavaScript’s more technical parts, you should enjoy this.
Bjorn Tipling
Last week I linked to the awesome slides but now Google has uploaded the full talk. Addy Osmani show us how to master the Chrome DevTools for effective memory management to tackle things like memory leaks, pauses, bloat, etc.
Addy Osmani
Nordic.js is a 2 day JavaScript conference in Stockholm. It’s sold out but you can sign up for free to watch the live stream on September 18-19 featuring speakers like Leah Culver, Tom Dale, Jina Bolton and Douglas Crockford.
NordicJS
Jobs
In Brief
FullStack: A New Node and JS Conference in London, UK (October 23-24) news
Skills Matter
Socket.IO 1.1.0 Released: The Fast, Reliable Real-Time Communications Engine news
Tony Kovanen
JSFest Oakland: A Week of JS Events by the Community (Dec 7-13) news
JSFest
Yahoo! Stopping All New Development on YUI news
Yahoo Engineering
Building A Simple Cross-Browser Offline To-Do List With IndexedDB And WebSQL tutorial
Smashing Magazine
Preventing Function Signature Mismatch in ES5 and ES6 tutorial
Axel Rauschmayer
Building a Chat App with node-webkit, Firebase, and AngularJS tutorial
SitePoint
What you need to know about block scope: let tutorial
ES6 Rocks
ECMAScript 6: What's Next for JavaScript? video
Axel Rauschmayer
A Discussion on AngularJS's Learning Curve podcast
Front-end Developer Cast
Use Node.JS and Arduino to Build A Weather Display node
Node Disassemble
Cross-Storage: Cross Domain Local Storage with Permissions code
Enables multiple browser windows/tabs, across a variety of domains, to share a single localStorage.
Zendesk
Ideal Image Slider: A Clean, Smart Image Slider in Vanilla JS code
Gilbert Pellegrom
PostScribe: Asynchronously Write JavaScript, even with document.write code
Krux
AngularStrap 2.1.0: AngularJS Native Directives for Bootstrap 3 code
Olivier Louvignes
A Proof-of-Concept Rewrite of The jQuery UI Widgets to Use Web Components code
TJ VanToll
Blast.js: A jQuery Plugin That Breaks Apart Text for Easier Manipulation code
Mozilla Hacks
A Set of True JavaScript Controls Created Using ECMAScript 5
The ECMAScript 5 specification, supported by all modern browsers, adds a host of key features that were missing in JavaScript. Wijmo 5, a collection of UI widgets, utilized these new features to create a suite of true JavaScript controls. Check out the faster, lighter, and more mobile Wijmo 5!
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