JavaScript engines in browsers
Here's a brief list of JavaScript engines and in which browsers they are used. I hope didn't mess up any of them.
- Nitro (previously SquirrelFish) - Safari
- V8 - Chrome/Chromium
- Chakra - IE 9
- TraceMonkey - FireFox
JavaScript/JS or ECMAScript/ES
Should we call it JavaScript or ECMAScript? By now most browsers support the ECMAScript 3 standard, but we still call it JavaScript?
Anyway, the standards are described over here: ECMAScript. For ultra-coolness you should take a look at Node
Cappuccino
Again I'm amazed by what the guys from 280North pulled off. First their framework (UI) is absolutely gorgeous, second their web&desktop example (GitHub Issues) is ... well, everything I hoped for.
I'm just still a bit put-offish by Objective-J, though I'm starting to appreciate why they introduced it.
SC.TreeController and SC.Record
Just added an example to github which shows how to use SC.Record in a SC.TreeController.
The example is available here
Moving to static site
Though Wordpress is a good product, I decided to move away from it for this site. I'm still using it on other sites of mine though. This site is now generated from a series of Markdown files, currently using a product called Jekyll. Currently it provides pretty much the same functionality website wise, ofcourse I now lost the administration interface. The site is content wise complete, though the theme could use a little more.
Sugar & Spice for Espresso
In real life this would probably taste awful, but for the Espresso editor it's great! Sugars allow you to extend the Espresso editor with add-ons or plugins, which will ease your development.
Today I've found two tasty Sugars: Zen Coding is one of them (though it is in Espresso by default) and Spice. Well, okay I was pointed to Zen Coding by a colleague actually...
MongoDB REST Interface
Update: The MongoDB REST has matured since it's first iteration, see GitHub for more information.
Just pushed my first attempt at a MongoDB REST Interface to GitHub, it's written for node.js. MongoDB is a very cool document based database, but they themselves described it better: