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JavaScript News & Commentary

Four short links: 8 February 2010

By Nat Torkington
February 8, 2010

Kindle Development Kit APIs -- Amazon will release a Kindle SDK. These are the API docs. (via obra on Twitter) rePublish -- all-Javascript ebook reader. (via kellan on Twitter) Peer Review: What's it Good For? (Cameron Neylon) -- harsh and honest review of peer review with some important questions for the future of science. But there is perhaps an...

Four short links: 5 February 2010

By Nat Torkington
February 5, 2010

The Public Domain Manifesto -- eloquent argument in favour of the public domain. (via BoingBoing) Clear Climate Code -- project to write and maintain software for climate science, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness. What a wonderful way for coders who aren't scientists to contribute to open and better science. (via the interesting OKFN blog) Don't Hash Secrets...

jQuery: the new J in AJAX! - Who knows?

By Rick Jelliffe
January 25, 2010

Looking back at 2009, the most significant technological innovation in our office was the adoption of jQuery. Basically, our web developers now don't say "We can do that in JavaScript!" but instead say "We can do that in jQuery!" jQuery...

Four short links: 14 January 2010

By Nat Torkington
January 14, 2010

Four Possible Explanations for Google's Big China Move (Ethan Zuckerman) -- I'm staying out of the public commentary on this one, but Ethan's fourth point was wonderfully thought provoking: a Google-backed anticensorship system (perhaps operated in conjunction with some of the smart activists and engineers who’ve targeted censorship in Iran and China?) would be massively more powerful (and threatening!)...

14 Days of jQuery 1.4

By Raymond Camden
January 8, 2010

This is very cool. The jQuery team has announced some pretty big news today. As they get closer to the final 1.4 release, they have launched a new site called 14 Days of jQuery. Every day, for 14 days, new...

Using jQuery to rewrite date/times in your local timezone

By Raymond Camden
December 18, 2009

A simple example of using jQuery and Datejs to reformat dates on a page to the user's local timezone.

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