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jshint-eclipse: JavaScript Code Quality Plugin for Eclipse
JavaScript has a lot of pitfalls, so it is very important to have a code analysis tool that detects errors and bad programming style. jshint-eclipse is an Eclipse plugin that uses the static code...
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Knockout JS 2.1.0 released
The Knockout JS Team recently released version 2.1.0 of their JavaScript data binding framework. Knockout JS is a small but powerful Javascript library that offers declarative data binding for your...
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Grails 2.1.0 released
7 months after the last major release 2.0 of the Grails web framework, the Grails team announced a new minor release 2.1. Visit the What’s new in Grails 2.1 page for a nice summary of all the new...
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StatCounter Browser Market Share July 2012 – Google Chrome is #1
According to statcounter.com, Google Chrome is the most used browser worldwide in July 2012 – with a market share of 33.81%. When looking at worldwide market shares of July 2012, these are the most...
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SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.0 released – based on Eclipse 4.2 Juno
SpringSource has released the SpringSource Tool Suites in version 3.0.0, which are based on the latest Eclipse release 4.2 (Juno). STS is now available as two different distributions: Spring Tool Suite...
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jQuery 1.8 Released
The jQuery team has released version 1.8 of the popular JavaScript library jQuery. jQuery is now modular. Based on the build tool grunt, it is now possible to pick and deliver only required modules...
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WebStorm 5 – IDE for HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript development
JetBrains revently released version 5 of their web development IDE WebStorm. WebStorm is a subset of the popular IntelliJ Java IDE. It offers support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript and is probably...
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HTML5 will be finalized in 2014
According to the W3C, the HTML5 spec will be finalized in 2014 – meaning it will reach Recommendation status in Q4/2014. To maintain this schedule, the W3C has postponed some features to a HTML5.1 spec...
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Object.observe() will become a web standard
Two-Way data binding is a requirement for declarative Model/View separation mechanisms as seen in frameworks like KnockoutJS or AngularJS. When the user enters data in a form, the data model gets...
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TypeScript – a language for application-scale JavaScript development
Microsoft recently announced TypeScript, a new language for the web to develop large JavaScript applications. It is a superset of JavaScript, so existing JavaScript code can be used. It compiles to...
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Knockout 2.2.0 released
The Knockout Team recently released version 2.2.0 of their JavaScript data binding framework. Knockout is a small but powerful Javascript library that offers declarative data binding for your HTML...
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Bootstrap 2.1 and 2.2 – what’s inside the box?
After version 2.0 of Twitter’s Bootstrap has been released a while ago, there are two new releases: 2.1 and 2.2. Bootstrap is a open-source HTML/CSS toolkit (Apache 2 licence) to build modern websites...
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HTML5 is complete
According to the W3C, the HTML5 spec is complete – which in fact means that the core HTML5 spec and the Canvas 2D Context spec reached the status of a Candidate Recommendation. You can expect the core...
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Chrome 24 for Developers
The Chrome Team recently released Chrome 24. The browser offers higher JavaScript execution speed and faster startup times. For developer, the new version offers Support for MathML (to describe...
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Grails 2.2 released (Groovy 2.0, Forked Mode, Namespace support) and Grails...
Grails 2.2 has been released recently. It offers support for Groovy 2.0 (static type checker and static compilation, modularity, Project Coin syntax enhancements, Invoke Dynamic integration) namespace...
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Opera is switching to WebKit
Opera announced that they are abandoning their own browser rendering engine Presto. They decided to switch to the Open-Source rendering engine WebKit (used by Chrome and Safari) and the JavaScript...
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jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 focuses on responsive web design
jQuery Mobile – a set of touch-friendly web UI elements – has been released in version 1.3.0. This time, the focus of the release is on responsive web design. In practise this means that your jQuery...
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NetBeans 7.3 with HTML5 support
Oracle has released Version 7.3 of their IDE NetBeans. NetBeans is an IDE primarily focused on Java development, but it also supports development with other languages like PHP and C/C++. Recent...
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Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 released
Up until now, Internet Explorer 10 was only available for Windows 8. That changed today, as Microsoft released IE10 for Windows 7. IE10 is more secure than it’s predecessors and has a better support...
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WebStorm 6 – HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript IDE now with TypeScript, CoffeeScript and...
JetBrains revently released version 6 of their web development IDE WebStorm. WebStorm is a subset of the popular IntelliJ Java IDE. It offers support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript and is probably...
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Eclipse Orion 2.0 released – browser based web IDE
Version 2.0 of the browser based IDE for web development Orion has been released. It offers a prototype of Projects with filtering and SFTP integration. There is now the ability to embed the editor and...
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Chrome 25 for Developers – Speech API and Shadow DOM
The Chrome Team recently released Chrome 25. For developer, the new version offers support for the Web Speech API – which allows developers to add speech recognition features to their applications...
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The web starts to blink: Chrome drops WebKit as its rendering engine –...
Recently, concerns arised that WebKit could become the new IE6 (the majority of web developers optimized and tested only for compatibility with IE6 before the great browser wars). As it turns out,...
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EGit will have recursive merge strategy in upcoming version 2.4
Although EGit is a nice tool for working with Git in Eclipse, it has the problem that its merge strategy differs from the strategy of the official Git command line client – until now. The Git command...
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jQuery 2.0 released – drops support for old IEs (IE 6 – 8)
The jQuery team has released version 2.0 of the popular JavaScript library jQuery. There are no new features, but support for older Internet Explorer versions (IE6, IE7 and IE8) has been dropped,...
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How to rollback changes with Git
Bad things happen… Sometimes you commit a change that you want to rollback afterwards. There are multiple ways to rollback changes with Git. Each solution has it advantages and matches another use...
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TypeScript 0.9 released with Generics and Enums
Microsoft has released version 0.9 of TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript. Some of the new features include: Generics The long requested language feature has finally arrived: interface...
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Eclipse 4.3 Kepler released
The Eclipse Foundation has released version 4.3 of their IDE Eclipse, codename Kepler. 71 Eclipse projects have been released this year with the release train. The highlights of Eclipse 4.3 include:...
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Apache Cordova / Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 Released
Apache Cordova aka Adobe PhoneGap – an open source framework for creating mobile apps using web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) – has been released in version 3.0. The major new features are: New...
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Animate.css – Ready to use CSS3 animations
Animate.css is a bunch of open source (MIT Licence) animations in the form of a single CSS file which you can add to your website or web application to add some nice looking animations. There is no...
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TypeScript Plug-in for Eclipse
Palantir Technologies has finally released an Eclipse Plugin for TypeScript, the statically typed superset of JavaScript with EcmaScript 6 features. In order to use the plug-in, you have to install...
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Bootstrap 3.0 – flat design and improved responsiveness
Bootstrap has been released recently in version 3.0. Bootstrap is a open-source HTML/CSS toolkit (Apache 2 licence) to build modern websites or web applications. It’s not a framework but a set of css...
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Grails 2.3 with asynchronous APIs and server-side REST improvements
Grails 2.3 has been released recently. This time, it is a release with a lot of new features. IMHO, The most outstanding features are the REST improvements (including scaffolding of REST controllers)...
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HTML5 Touch Events specification is now a web standard
In recent years there was (and still is) a dramatic decrease in sales figures of traditional PCs like desktops and laptops, at least in the consumer market. So mobile devices seem to be the future for...
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How to split up GWT applications into modules
Did you know? GWT has its own modularization. There is this module description xml file, which we know is the key element in how the compiler gets to know what it should consider to cross compile into...
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TypeScript 0.9.5 released – one of the last steps before reaching 1.0
Microsoft has released version 0.9.5 of TypeScript, the statically typed superset of JavaScript. The new release fixes over 100 issues, including memory leaks, CPU usage, crashes and compiler...
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How to integrate the TypeScript compiler into a Gradle build
When you start using TypeScript, the statically typed superset of JavaScript, you probably want to integrate the TypeScript compiler into your build process. In my case, the application I’m working on...
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An introduction to TypeScript’s module system
The module system is an interesting feature of TypeScript, the statically typed superset of JavaScript. Modules provide the possibility to group related logic, encapsulate it, structure your code and...
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TypeScript 1.0RC released
Microsoft has announced the availability of TypeScript 1.0RC, a release candidate of the final version 1.0. According to Microsoft, this release offers a “feature-complete TypeScript 1.0 language with...
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TypeScript – Accessing Enum Values via a String
Starting with TypeScript 0.9.7, accessing an enum value via a string got a little bit inconveniant. Before 0.9.7 you could do enum Color { RED, GREEN, BLUE } var colorString = "RED"; var enumVal =...
View ArticleInner Classes with TypeScript
In TypeScript, there is no exlicit concept like inner classes. So what you cannot do in TypeScript is as follows: class Foo { export class InnerFoo { } } new Foo.InnerFoo(); You can achieve something...
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Declaration Merging with TypeScript
Declaration merging is a very interesting feature of TypeScript, the statically typed superset of JavaScript. As you will see, different things can be merged in TypeScript. The merging is always based...
View ArticleTypeScript 1.0 Released – the statically typed super set of JavaScript
Microsoft announced the availability of the first stable release 1.0 of TypeScript – the statically typed super set of JavaScript. Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 includes TypeScript 1.0 out of the box....
View ArticleECMAScript 6 Delayed To Mid 2015
ECMAScript 6 – the standard for the next iteration of JavaScript – has been delayed to June 2015. Originally, it was scheduled for a release in 2013, then it was delayed to the end of 2014 and now it...
View ArticleSafer TypeScript – Improved Type Safety for TypeScript
Microsoft Research is working on a project called “Safer TypeScript”. It is an alternative type-checker and code generator for TypeScript – the statically typed superset of JavaScript – which offers...
View ArticleGradle 2.0 released with Groovy 2.3 and Java 8 support
Gradleware just released Gradle 2.0 which sets a new backward compatibility baseline. The most prominent changes include an upgrade from Groovy 1.8 to 2.3.2 and support for Java 8. Here is a list of...
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TypeScript nun bei GitHub, Compiler soll schneller werden, ECMAScript 6...
TypeScript, das statisch typisierte Superset von JavaScript (Vorstellung auf blog.oio.de), zieht von CodePlex um zu GitHub. Dies hat Microsoft nun in einem Blogbeitrag bekanntgegeben. Damit folgt...
View ArticleTypeScript – Nur ein ECMAScript 6 Lückenbüßer?
Diese berechtigte Frage muss sich TypeScript, das statisch typisierte Superset von JavaScript, gefallen lassen. Schließlich bringt ECMAScript 6, die kommende Version des Standards für JavaScript, viele...
View ArticleJavaScript Caching – Adopting Perfect Caching for JS Apps
The Problem JavaScript Single-Page-Applications tend to consist of a lot of JavaScript files. Several hundreds of JS files are no exception. When accessing these applications using a web browser, every...
View ArticleHandling JavaScript Dependencies with Gradle
In the Java world and with build tools like Maven or Gradle, you are used to declarative dependency management. Simply declare which libraries and versions you need, and let the build tool download and...
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