JavaScript

anode is an experimental platform for rapidly prototyping web apps on Windows Azure. anode is built by Microsoft entirely with node.js and uses many great open source modules written by the awesome node.js community around the world. This is not a service. It's an experiment. That said, the anode…

We're going to start mixing in some new items in our Monday posts. Given the recent release of Windows 8 Customer Preview and Visual Studio 11 beta we're going to start mixing in some new "M's", such as today's Metro Monday project... One of the promises of developing for Windows 8 is that…

This is a recording from an MSDN Live Meeting broadcast from the Microsoft Belgium office on March 13, 2012. Abstract Building HTML5 web applications is nice, building HTML5 web applications that run on multiple devices is awesome. The key in this story are media queries which come with CSS3.…

Today's project takes us to a place where that we have not visited often, using the Kinect in a browser, melding HTML5, JavaScript and the Kinect... KinectJSKinectJS, (aspiring to) bring motion controls to HTML5.:: Download Here :: Try the Demos :: Documentation ( work in progress) :: Youtube…

The JavaScript implementation of Reactive Extensions (Rx), RxJS, continues to evolve under the direction of Matthew Podwysocki. RxJS provides Rx operators in JavaScript and it does this in a download size of less than 7KB (using GZip compression). RxJS provides easy-to-use…

In this video, I walk you through two core usage scenarios for Script# in the Dynamics CRM 2011 context: Creating JavaScript web resources Sharing basic logic across server-side code (plugins/workflow activities) & client-side code (JavaScript web resources) Think of this as an alternative…

Allen Wirfs-Brock is a Research Fellow at Mozilla working on the next version of JavaScript (EcmaScript, to be precise), codenamed "Harmony." Allen is the chief editor of the EcmaScript specification. He's also legendary for his work on SmallTalk. It's always fun to chat with Allen. His…

PhoneGap is an HTML5 and JavaScript framework that allows to build cross-platform mobile applications very easily. Since version 1.3, PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone and integrates into Visual Studio 2010. For developers who are already using PhoneGap to target multiple mobile platforms, they…

Learn how to build and deploy a simple application to Windows Azure using Node.js.

Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is an associate professor at Northeastern University. Sam focuses on a variety of programming language research projects including Racket (and Typed Racket), Fortress, and JavaScript—the focus of this conversation. Sam is collaborating with Mozilla Research and the…