Node.js – The objective is absolutely fast I/O
Node.js employs an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O model, and it provides some blindingly fast performance to some types …
Winding road of open-source webOS
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has …
Shim uses node.js to test sites on multiple browsers
Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various …
HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP
Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance …
Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices
Earlier this week, Adobe VP and General Manager Danny Winokur disclosed that the company has concluded that HTML5 is ”the …
Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript
Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, hooks into on-chip vector extensions to improve performance of Web applications. …
Adobe buys Nitobi
As it kicked off its yearly developer event, Adobe announced that it had acquired Nitobi Software, maker of PhoneGap open …
A simple random bit on var selector
Isobar’s Rob Larsen suggests that there is often a need to build CSS selectors dynamically when building applications. ”This is …
The power of intent tag discussed
Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan has detailed his recent work on a lightweight sharing facility using a very simple intent …
Code injection, error throwing
In a blog, Opera Software Developer Relations team member Tiffany B. Brown looks at code injection, error throwing and handling …