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...
View ArticleWebStorm 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...
View ArticleEclipse 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...
View ArticleChrome 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleEGit 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...
View ArticlejQuery 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,...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleTypeScript 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...
View ArticleEclipse 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:...
View ArticleApache 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...
View ArticleAnimate.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...
View ArticleTypeScript 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...
View ArticleBootstrap 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...
View ArticleGrails 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)...
View ArticleHTML5 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleTypeScript 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleAn 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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