Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Web Programming

YOW! 2012: Peter Moskovits - HTML5, WebSockets, and Modern Web Programming

Charles — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:26:12 GMT

Peter Moskovits is a Developer Advocate for Kaazing, a software company enhancing the way business and customers communicate across the Web using the new HTML5 WebSocket standard. Peter works closely with the developer community to architect and deploy the best possible web communication solutions.

Here, we discuss HTML5, WebSockets, and modern web programming. Tune in.

Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

Charles — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:10:17 GMT

TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, is designed to make it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. It was announced recently while Anders Hejlsberg and other key members of the TypeScript team were attending and speaking at the goto conference (an excellent cross-platform developer event!). Needless to say, Channel 9 was there

Google's V8 and Dart chief architect Lars Bak also happened to be at the event (he's currently leading the Dart team full time). Anders and Lars join us to talk candidly about TypeScript, JavaScript and Dart. Huge thanks to Anders and Lars for this excellent conversation.

Tune in. Enjoy.

E2E: Donna Malayeri, Gilad Bracha, Luke Hoban - Web Programming and More

Charles — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:45:00 GMT

At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.

Here, Erik interviews Donna Malayeri (F# PM and Lang.NEXT speaker chair), Gilad Bracha (Dart) and Luke Hoban (ECMAScript). The conversation spans several topics, of course.

Tune in. Enjoy.

Scott Guthrie: Power To and For The People

Charles — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:00:00 GMT

At a certain level, computers are all about giving computational power and resources to the common man. Even though many of you may not remember it, it wasn't that long ago when computers were tools which could only be afforded by the very largest of companies. Today however; computers are a common fixture of our everyday lives. We can look toward companies like Apple, IBM and Microsoft as well as Cisco, Sun, Novell, and countless others as being the driving forces behind making computers small, powerful and, more importantly, cheap enough to work their way into common usage. Power to and for the people.

However, when you look at the big computing companies and the executives who drive their success, it may be hard to feel a connection, a familiarity, or a friend in those faces. They are big individuals, making big decisions, and driving big industry in ways that are hard for you to relate to. Then there are some computing executives who break that mold, and feel like us. You can see in their faces their roots as an ordinary person, as a common man. Here at Microsoft, one of those executives is Scott Guthrie.

In the last 15 years at Microsoft Scott Guthrie has been a constant force in the ever-evolving .NET Platform. After starting out in the Internet Information Server group in 1997, he soon began the initial work on what would eventually turn into ASP.NET, and one of the core pillars of the overall .NET Framework. Scott has since become a fixture, if not a figurehead, of .NET development worldwide. His straightforward nature, and ability to still spend time deep in code, reminds developers that he is one of us. When we see Scott on a stage showing an audience upcoming features of a technology he is working on, we see ourselves, we see our future.

The great Robert Hess moderates this edition of Behind the Code.

Allen Wirfs-Brock and Chris Wilson: EcmaScript, JavaScript and the Web

Charles — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:03:15 GMT

ECMAScript is object-based: basic language and host facilities are provided by objects, and an ECMAScript program is a cluster of communicating objects. An ECMAScript object is a collection of properties each with zero or more attributes that determine how each property can be used—for example, when the Writable attribute for a property is set to false, any attempt by executed ECMAScript code to change the value of the property fails. Properties are containers that hold other objects, primitive values, or functions. A primitive value is a member of one of the following built-in types: Undefined, Null, Boolean, Number, and String; an object is a member of the remaining built-in type Object; and a function is a callable object. A function that is associated with an object via a property is a method. - Source = Ecma-262

IE9 beta was recently released and it contains a new JS engine that is concurrent and fast. It also provides support for EcmaScript 5. What is EcmaScript 5? What's up with the naming covention? Isn't it just JavaScript? Wait a minute, there was no EcmaScript 4... What's going here? Well, not to worry. Chris Wilson and Allen Wirfs-Brock should be able to provide insights into the latest version of Java, er, EcmaScript. Allen sat on the governing body and was the chief editor for the official (and orange) specification. Let's just go talk to them. Ready? Tune in.

Introducing RxJS - Reactive Extensions for JavaScript

Charles — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:11:00 GMT

Reactive Extensions for Javascript have arrived. Hello RxJS!!

You can now use Rx combinators in JavaScript. RxJS provides easy to use conversions from existing DOM, XmlHttpRequest and jQuery events to Rx push-collections, allowing users to seamlessly plug Rx
into their existing JavaScript-based web sites. Great. What does this mean, exactly? As you know by now, Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections.

Here, Rx developer Jeffrey Van Gogh explains (and demonstrates) what you can do with RxJS, how he ported Rx to JavaScript and more.

Be sure to check out Erik's excellent session at MIX10

Tune in.