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"Processing.js is the sister project of the popular Processing visual programming language, designed for the web. Processing.js makes your data visualizations, digital art, interactive animations, educational graphs, video games, etc. work using web standards and without any plug-ins. You write code using the Processing language, include it in your web page, and Processing.js does the rest. It's not magic, but almost."

"If you're a web designer or developer it is very likely that you already use Firebug for Firefox every day. If you have not even installed it yet it is about time you check it out. Firebug is packed with useful features that make the life for web developers much easier. Being able to inspect an element on a page and instantly get access to the html and css used to render it is my personal favorite and the fact that it is possible to edit the code and see the result instantly is an insanely useful feature. Although Firebug is packed with features there are several interesting extensions that enhance its capabilities. This post gives you an overview of the best Firebug extensions that may increase your productivity even further."

"The fastest bug fixes are the ones you can make and test right on the spot. However, many times access to the web server in order to update JavaScript files is not possible, convenient, or is potentially dangerous (affects all users if your fix fails miserably). "

" jQuery HTML5 Uploader is a lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you to quickly add an upload system a-la-Gmail into your web app."

"Ender is a full featured package manager for your browser. It allows you to search, install, manage, and compile front-end javascript packages and their dependencies for the web. We like to think of it as NPM's little sister. Ender is not a JavaScript library. It's not a jQuery replacement. It's not even a static asset. It's a tool for making the consumption of front-end javascript packages dead simple and incredibly powerful."

"As some of you know that read me blog will know I am more of a WPF/WCF desktop kind of guy. I do however have a healthy interest in the web, and have in fact been working on a large open source project which is nearly done which uses jQuery and ASP MVC 3 (Razor)."

" Dojo saves you time, delivers powerful performance, and scales with your development process. It's the toolkit experienced developers turn to for building superior desktop and mobile web experiences. Get Dojo "

"CanJS is a MIT-licensed, client-side, JavaScript framework that makes building rich web applications easy. It provides:"

" I've seen quite a bit of confusion from developers about what the real differences are between the jQuery .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), and .on() methods and when they should be used."

"AmplifyJS is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Amplify's goal is to simplify all forms of data handling by providing a unified API for various data sources. Amplify's store component handles persistent client-side storage, using standards like localStorage and sessionStorage, but falling back on non-standard implementations for older browsers. Amplify's request adds some additional features to jQuery's ajax method while abstracting away the underlying data source."

" Michael Mahemoff discusses how HTML5 can be used to create single page web apps offering advice to create a better user experience, built-in accessibility and better SEO results. "

"A question was asked on Stack Overflow recently, and I provided an answer that I think is worth re-blogging here (while cleaning up the text / grammar). My answer goes in to a little bit of the idea behind a garbage collected language and gets in to some of the basics of how JavaScript knows when to clean up your "garbage" - that is, your objects that are no longer used. What I'm presenting here is an oversimplification of how JavaScript manages memory. However, these basic ideas should prove useful to people who want to do a better job of managing memory usage in JavaScript."

" Since jQuery was released in 2006, it has changed the way we think of JavaScript. And because of its simplicity, it has motivated many enthusiastic developers to create thousands of useful plugins and extends its functionality. Now, lets go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins of 2011 as It's almost over. "

"If you recall, JavaScript closures are an extremely powerful concept in the language. By using JavaScript's rather peculiar scoping rules, closures are a way of creating private variables and functionality for an object. The module pattern builds upon this feature."

"This is the first in a 5 part series presenting the SOLID design principles within the context of the JavaScript language."

"Assuming that it'll be a while before most browsers attempt to implement most of HTML 5 (a perfectly reasonable assumption) we need to start thinking of ways to tackle the creation and rendering of HTML 5 components in the meantime. Obviously, using the tools of JavaScript and CSS we can accomplish a lot."

"This includes Notifier.js - a Javascript library for Gnome / Growl type non-blocking notifications. "

"Logic-less templates."

"The current product I am building makes heavy use of HTML5 & javascript to give the user a rich experience, both on and offline, across a variety of screens. Before I even started this application I knew I wanted a clean and proven approach to help manage the complexity on the client. After reviewing several js frameworks I decided to go with backbone.js (compare yourself). I have been working with backbone for several months and I am really happy with it, and would recommend to anyone building similar types of javascript applications."

"jqPlot is a plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework. jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features:"