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PS3 looks pretty good...

Gorgeous jQuery IU file manager

The basic idea of PJAX is that you update only the parts of the page that change when the user navigates through your app. However, unlike a normal AJAX app that returns only data (JSON) from the server, a PJAX request actually contains normal HTML that has been generated on the server

In light of the new bunch of unit testing ideas going around, thought this might be interesting. Note: Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a form of TDD that attempts to involve non-technical stakeholders in the development process.

An awesome JS library, feature detection

An open-source CSS Authoring Framework. Uses SASS (similar to lesscss) so you can write cleaner CSS. Has tons of built-in mixins and a very nice CSS sprite generator

Paper.js, Processing.js and Raphaël are the leading libraries for drawing on the Web right now.This article covers the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the information you need to make the best choice.

Node JS is a server-side javascript framework which allows you to work with low level networking protocols. Built on top of V8.

In the red corner, weighing in at just 29Kb (uncompressed), is knockout.js; a pure JavaScript library that simplifies the creation of dynamic user interfaces. Knockout is library agnostic, so it can easily be used with any of the most popular JavaScript libraries already available, but it works particularly well with jQuery, and uses jQuery.tmpl as its default templating engine.

Google announces a new programming language (Dart) as a possible javascript alternative.

So you have seen all the cool stuff WebGL can do, how do you do it? Well, turns out it is not too hard with Three.js. This short presentation shows how to do cool things with WebGL.

An enhanced version of JavaScript with a more Ruby and Python like syntax, but, at the end of the day, "it's just JavaScript."