Gilad Bracha, the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google, presents Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Dart’s design goals are: * Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming. * Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers …
This tutorial introduces Node.js, a server side implementation of JavaScript built on top of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js is finding a home among web developers, both for its ability to handle concurrency and because it was built with web development in mind. You’ll be amazed at how simple it …
hook.io is a full featured i/o framework for node.js. hook.io allows you to create clouds of node.js processes which seamlessly communicate with each other to form fault-tolerant distributed systems. hook.io is a radical departure from how web applications are currently being built. hook.io itself is very easy to use, but …
This video shows how to use Jasmine to test JavaScript in your Rails applications. Jasmine is a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework for testing your JavaScript code. It does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not require a DOM. And it has a clean, obvious syntax so that …
NowJS software, which uses emerging technologies to help clients and servers communicate in real-time, is making it much easier to develop of real-time applications. Video source: http://www.building43.com/videos/2011/08/02/nowjs-simplifying-development-of-real-time-apps/
