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Web development news for the 40th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #47 – October 7, 2011

Future proofing your JavaScript application, Cross-Origin resource sharing, the Zynga Scroller (a rendering and event framework) …

Mootools has release version 1.4.1, fixing a few bugs from its last release.

General

Another great article by Nicholas Zackas, explaining how to use HTML comments for Simple, Maintanable Templating with JavaScript.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #7 – October 5, 2011

FireFox has released Aurora 9 (planned to be FireFox 9), Chrome to take over the #2 browser position, optimizing for mobile performance, updating your favicon in real time, the IE 6 song, …

Web development news for the 41st week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #48 – October 14, 2011

JavaScript++ is a new language derived from JavaScript (plus a bit more), a special roundup of Dart resources, Isogenic Engine is modern Web-based MMO game engine built in JavaScript and HTML 5, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #8 – October 12, 2011

FireFox has released an android tablet focues version, HTTP Strict Tranport Security (HSTS), Joe Hewitt looks at some tricks with iOS’s webkit to improve animation, …

Web development news for the 46th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #53 – November 18th, 2011

Learn about techniques to build better Third Party JavaScript, understand why or Why Not AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition), BicaVM is a proof of concept Java Virtual Machine, Written in JavaScript, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #13 – November 16th, 2011

Mozilla announces insertAdjacentHTML() Enables Faster HTML Snippet Injection in FireFox 8, Mozilla’s Draft ‘Web Joystick API’ for those of use who want to build better web games, Google Swiffy: Convert Flash SWFs to HTML5, …

Web Development

Another great article by Nicholas Zakas, discussing how to setup multi user apache on an EC2 machine.

General

Sorry, for the date mixup in your RSS readers. I fixed a bunch of titles and in doing say caused most readers to think that it was new content. Anyway, I will try to be more diligent about mistakes like that in the future.

Also, I have been working on rewriting the blog in Python/Django. I expect some small changes over the next couple months. My plan is to continue to be backwards compatible with the current schema, but I will be moving the blog to blog.mattsnider.com with permanent redirects from the root domain.

Web development news for the 42nd week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #49 – October 21, 2011

A new release of JavaScriptMVC, a good screencast for building a backbone driven application, the next version of jQuery is coming soon, …

Nicholas C. Zakas reposts an article originally by Hans Brough, So You Want to Write JavaScript for a Living Repost. The title says it all.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #9 – October 19, 2011

Google maps offers a WebGL-powered option, Maximiliano Firtman presents an overview of Safari on iOS 5, best-practices cheat sheet for designing web forms, …

Other

PPK of Quirksmode consolidates public information on Apple’s pattern of business cycles. While not web development exactly, I found it to be an interesting read: Apples Cycles.

Web development news for the 43rd week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #50 – October 28, 2011

A free performance ebook when you signup for New Relic, David Flanagan on HTML parsing with JavaScript, Douglas Crockford on JavaScript Programming Style and Your Brain, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #10 – October 26, 2011

Kindle Format 8 To Introduce HTML5 Support in E-Books, Opera Adds getUserMedia and Native Pages Support, 10 Essential Differences Between HTML4 and HTML5, What Feature Would Improve the Web? survey results, …

Other

Microsoft explains the best practices way to modify vendor prefixed CSS properties using JavaScript, A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes.

Web development news for the 44th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #51 – November 4th, 2011

Examples for making your JavaScript more terse, an explaination of the WebKit JavaScript implementation, a fun tool to pimp your JavaScript, …

Part of the 1.7 jQuery released last week is the beginning of project to slim down the project by removing unused, confusing, or bulky features from the project’s core. Hopefully, some of those features will live as plugins, but it may not be necessary. Anyway, the original article by jQuery is building a slimmer jQuery.

For those of us who have ever tried to build expanding textareas, you will know how quirky it can be. Neil Jenkins attempts to explain how to make expanding text areas elegantly in his A List Apart article.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #11 – November 2, 2011

Say goodbye to the <time> and hello to the <data> element, description of Mozilla’s efforts to make it’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) use less memory, how to implement a 3D engine in HTML5, …

Web development news for the 45th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #52 – November 11th, 2011

Adobe Turns Away from Mobile Flash to Focus on HTML5, Michael Woloszynowicz explains why You Don’t Know JavaScript, Microsoft and Joyent Deliver ‘First Stable Build’ of Node.js on Windows, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #12 – November 7, 2011

After Developer Backlash, HTML5 Gets Its ‘Time’ Element Back, CSS3 Secrets: 10 Things You Might Not Know About CSS3, Will HTML5 Replace Native Apps? Here’s How to Figure Out When, …

Web development news for the 44th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #51 – November 4th, 2011

Examples for making your JavaScript more terse, an explaination of the WebKit JavaScript implementation, a fun tool to pimp your JavaScript, …

Part of the 1.7 jQuery released last week is the beginning of project to slim down the project by removing unused, confusing, or bulky features from the project’s core. Hopefully, some of those features will live as plugins, but it may not be necessary. Anyway, the original article by jQuery is building a slimmer jQuery.

For those of us who have ever tried to build expanding textareas, you will know how quirky it can be. Neil Jenkins attempts to explain how to make expanding text areas elegantly in his A List Apart article.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #11 – November 2, 2011

Say goodbye to the <time> and hello to the <data> element, description of Mozilla’s efforts to make it’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) use less memory, how to implement a 3D engine in HTML5, …

Web development news for the 43rd week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #50 – October 28, 2011

A free performance ebook when you signup for New Relic, David Flanagan on HTML parsing with JavaScript, Douglas Crockford on JavaScript Programming Style and Your Brain, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #10 – October 26, 2011

Kindle Format 8 To Introduce HTML5 Support in E-Books, Opera Adds getUserMedia and Native Pages Support, 10 Essential Differences Between HTML4 and HTML5, What Feature Would Improve the Web? survey results, …

Other

Microsoft explains the best practices way to modify vendor prefixed CSS properties using JavaScript, A Best Practice for Programming with Vendor Prefixes.

Web development news for the 42nd week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #49 – October 21, 2011

A new release of JavaScriptMVC, a good screencast for building a backbone driven application, the next version of jQuery is coming soon, …

Nicholas C. Zakas reposts an article originally by Hans Brough, So You Want to Write JavaScript for a Living Repost. The title says it all.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #9 – October 19, 2011

Google maps offers a WebGL-powered option, Maximiliano Firtman presents an overview of Safari on iOS 5, best-practices cheat sheet for designing web forms, …

Other

PPK of Quirksmode consolidates public information on Apple’s pattern of business cycles. While not web development exactly, I found it to be an interesting read: Apples Cycles.