Javascript Monthly Digest – 08/2011

by Oren Farhi on September 11, 2011

In this month’s issue i’m focusing on articles, frameworks & libraries.
The frameworks section holds interesting links which you should sure check out.
Take your time this month to lean back to explore these.Have a nice read.



Articles (javascript inside)

  1. Large Scale Javascript Architecture – http://addyosmani.com/largescalejavascript/
  2. Javascript Closures for dummies – http://blog.morrisjohns.com/javascript_closures_for_dummies.html
  3. Paul Irish’s slide about html5/js/css3 performance – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39519/talks/gperf/index.html
  4. Avoid Js Memory leaks – http://kasia.drzyzga.pl/2011/01/quick-tip-avoid-memory-leaks-in-ie/
  5. nice insight on javascript mcv and cascading events – http://www.planbox.com/blog/news/updates/javascript-mvc-%E2%80%93-cascading-events.html

Frameworks / Libraries

  1. scaleApp – scalable javascript framework following Nikolas Zakas concept – http://scaleapp.org/
  2. Accounting.js – money formatting – http://josscrowcroft.github.com/accounting.js/
  3. Buzz – a javascript Audio library  -http://buzz.jaysalvat.com/
  4. Deck.js – a javascirpt framework for creating html slides – http://imakewebthings.github.com/deck.js/
  5. Sprite3d.js – javascript library for moving in 3D space – http://minimal.be/lab/Sprite3D/

Html5

  1. pdf.js – rendering pdf’s with html5 capabilites – http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/
  2. HTML5 dashboard – Mozilla’s examples for html5 use cases – https://mozillademos.org/demos/dashboard/demo.html
  3. COOL html5 experiment with canvas – http://lab.aerotwist.com/webgl/photoparticles/
  4. A javasctipt html5 engine – http://www.melonjs.org/