RMS: « ...I am sure it IS effective for convincing people to use [Emacs] when that is more convenient. I want to convince people to insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient..." »
Read more »Emacs World Domination for the Wrong Reasons
http://livollmers.net –
JavaScript: The Missing Manual
http://www.certforums.co.uk –
This review has been a long time coming...mainly because I've been having such a good time with this book. That said, the title is a bit misleading. It's not really "The book that should have been in the box" (even if JavaScript came in a box) since a "box of generic JavaScript" wouldn't have come with half of what this book contains.
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Why Emacs and Firefox together could be the ultimate software!
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org –
«...That said, one of the biggest questions with JIT compilation of JavaScript that I've had for months is, "How are we going to debug JavaScript now?"...» --
Read more »Registration Open for jQuery Conference 2008
http://jquery.com –
"Registration for jQuery Conference 2008 is officially open. Register now to ensure your spot! As announced, this one-day conference will be held in Boston on Sunday, September 28 ..." (jquery is free software dual-licensed under the GPL and MIT licenses)
Read more »ES4 is Dead. Long Live ES4!
http://ejohn.org –
Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» --
Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --
Mozilla Add-ons Workshop in Paris, it's alive !
http://blog.mozbox.org –
"...I'm glad to announce that the Mozilla Add-ons Workshop in Paris is now open for subscriptions ! It will take place on Saturday September 20th. William talked a bit about this event. Our objective is to bring together French-speaking XUL developers, hackers, Web developers... to discuss about Mozilla technologies..."
Read more »GNU needs to embrace the web !!
http://lists.gnu.org –
Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» -- *
Read more »Why did Javascript/AJAX mop the floor with Java, Flash and Silverlight?
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
It's not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up winning - and evolve in order to become more solid and established.
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Firefox 3: an empirical performance study
http://www.mininglabs.com –
Firefox 3 javascript performance and memory usage study on linux
Read more »Incredible JavaScript Desktop!!
http://widget-env.sourceforge.net –
'This is a website accompanying the Widget Environment library. An easy to use window environment written in JavaScript to give your webpages the look and feel of a desktop. Features include: basic window behaviour (close, maximize, minize), a navigation menu with submenu's, a listing of all opened windows (navigation bar) and clickable desktop icons.'
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MooTools: An open apology to the authors of jQuery, Prototype and others
http://blog.mootools.net –
"Some days are goood days, others not so much. Today, not so much. This morning I woke to something of a firestorm on the interweb about, well, something stupid, and frankly, it was my stupid..."
Read more »Why Javascript, not Flash? - Ask Zoho
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com –
"I've only just come across this, perhaps the best summary of why using Flash is the wrong way to create Web apps..."
Read more »Future of Firefox and JavaScript
Building a JavaScript Library
http://ejohn.org –
"This past Friday I gave my first Google Tech Talk on Building a JavaScript Library. [...] Please let me know if this talk interested you as I’m trying to gauge what interests other web developers - because all of this stuff fascinates me (JavaScript programming, open source projects, etc.)."
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