Javascript Masters (and wannabes)

"I've quickly become a fan of jQuery's Deferred / Promise features. They've been around for a little bit now, but I only recent started using them and they've helped me solve a number of problems with my asynchronous JavaScript code. But what I recently figured out really blew my mind. You can use jQuery to support both synchronous and asynchronous code, with the `$.when` function, and your code doesn't have to care whether or not it's async."

"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."

"EJS cleans the HTML out of your JavaScript with client side templates. After EJS gets its rubber gloves on dirty code, you'll feel organized and uncluttered."

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

" 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. "

"Javascript hides a lot of arsenal beneath its simplicity. In this post I've tried to explain normal javascript arrays and associative arrays starting with absolute basics and then presenting the advance concepts that are often overlooked but are simple to understand and are very handy. I'm not a Javascript guru :) . This post is more about what I've discovered overtime while coding in Javascript. Hope it helps and saves your time."

" Yurii Rashkovskii presents Beam.js, a JavaScript platform built on erlv8 and providing bi-directional integration with Erlang. "

" Mark S. Miller explains how to create secure applications in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 by turning JavaScript into a distributed secure programming language. "

"Most new features can be detected in JavaScript. To test for HTML5 video support, create a element and check for a property in its DOM: if("canPlayType" in $new("video")){...} See Chapter 2: Detecting HTML5 Features."

"InfoQ had a Q&A with the creators of some of the leading JavaScript unit testing frameworks about their projects and what they offer to developers."

"test262 is a test suite intended to check agreement between JavaScript implementations and the ECMA-262 Specification (currently 5th Edition). The test suite contains thousands of individual tests, each of which tests some specific requirements of the ECMAScript specification."

"The principal problem with using HTML 5 and CSS 3 isn't the adoption rate or the differences between browsers, it is knowing what those differences are in the first place. Once that is known developers can work around the limitations using graceful degradation techniques. To help figure that out many turn to the open source project Modernizr."

"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."

" 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 "

"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."

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

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

" 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."