STS 2.9.0 released
SpringSource recently released the Eclipse-based IDE SpringSource Tool Suite version 2.9.0. The highlights of the new release include: based on Eclipse Indigo SR2 (3.7.2) Updates to bundled...
View ArticleMylyn WikiText – an Open-Source library for handling wiki markup
Mylyn is an Eclipse plugin and framework for task management. It’s subproject – Mylyn WikiText – provides an extensible framework and tools for parsing, editing and presenting wiki markup. It can be...
View Articlejshint-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...
View ArticleKnockout 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...
View ArticleGrails 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...
View ArticleStatCounter 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...
View ArticleSpringSource 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...
View ArticlejQuery 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...
View ArticleWebStorm 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...
View ArticleHTML5 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...
View ArticleObject.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...
View ArticleTypeScript – 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...
View ArticleKnockout 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...
View ArticleBootstrap 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...
View ArticleHTML5 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...
View ArticleChrome 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...
View ArticleGrails 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...
View ArticleOpera 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...
View ArticlejQuery 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...
View ArticleNetBeans 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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