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Thursday, February 18, 2010

RequireJS 0.8.0 Released

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RequireJS, the next generation in script loading, now has an official release and a new web site: http://requirejs.org . The 0.8.0 release ...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

RunJS is now RequireJS

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As mentioned before, I considered renaming RunJS to RequireJS . I did the transition, and RequireJS is on GitHub . There is a conversion scr...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

RunJS to RequireJS?

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There was a thread that started on the CommonJS list about a transport format , something that works well in the browser via script injectio...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Script async, Raindrop and Firefox 3.6

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In honor of the Firefox 3.6 release , I upgraded Raindrop to use the new async attribute for script tags . Why is async neat? It does not b...
Saturday, January 09, 2010

RunJS Dependency API

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In my last post , I talked about a suggestion from David Ascher to try to improve the syntax of specifying dependencies when declaring a mo...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Raindrop + JSLint + JSDoc + RunJS

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I just pushed some changes into the front-end code for Raindrop . Besides using JSLint as the code style, and JSDoc for the format of the ...
Friday, December 25, 2009

RunJS: GitHub, build options, features, file sizes

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A few updates on RunJS, a JavaScript file/module loader (see the README for more documentation): RunJS is now on GitHub Plugins for RunJS a...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Dojo 1.4 Favorite Features

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Dojo 1.4 is out ! There is a metric ton of changes . Here are some of my favorite things about the release. I focus mostly on Dojo Core, and...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

JavaScript module loading, the browser and CommonJS

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JavaScript module syntax and loading seems like a hot topic at the moment, and here are some thoughts about how to construct module syntax a...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Raindrop, CouchDB and data models

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Raindrop uses CouchDB for data storage. We are starting to hit some tough issues with how data is stored and queried. This is my attempt t...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Blade, a JavaScript toolkit experiment

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I am playing around with a different way (at least for me) to construct a JavaScript toolkit. It is called Blade, and you can follow it via ...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Raindrop, Open Messaging for the Open Web

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I work for Mozilla Messaging , and we just opened the doors on Raindrop . Raindrop is the reason I had the opportunity to move to Vancouver,...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

RunJS updated: module modifiers and function modules

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I pushed some changes to allow lazy-loaded/lazy-evaluated module modifiers and also better support for modules that just define a function. ...
Monday, October 12, 2009

RunJS updated: simple modules and i18n bundles

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I pushed some changes to RunJS , the stand-alone JavaScript file/module loader. Newest changes are support for simple module definitions and...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

RunJS

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I just created what I hope to be the next generation JavaScript module loader here: RunJS . The documentation has some history and reasonin...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Chrome Frame, or Browser vs. Renderer

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Chrome Frame came out yesterday. I like the conversation it is trying to start. It makes a big difference having working code to get the co...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

Developer Tools and JavaScript Syntax Checking

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I was using Coda to do web development, primarily because of the simple interface, nice Panic Sans font and integrated FTP and Subversion s...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Custom local variables using the Dojo Loader

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Recently, Dion Almaer was wishing for a way to avoid typing "dojo" so many times in the Bespin code. He appreciated the namespace...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Job Transition

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Friday was my last day at AOL, just shy of 13 years. There were good times, bad times. Some really cool things. Neat people and teachers. A ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Namespaces, Subjects and Verbs in JavaScript

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It has been interesting to follow Dion Almaer 's comments about using Dojo in Bespin . This post mentioning call conventions higlighte...
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