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News and interviews about the latest happenings in the JavaScript world. Hosted by Manuel Lemos of the PHPClasses.org site and other guest hosts. It is recorded in MP3 format at least once a month in the beginning of each month.
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Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 76
By Manuel Lemos
The adoption of WebGL and WebRTC by mobile browsers has allowed to implement feasible augmented reality applications that let you mix 3D scenes rendered on a browser on the top of Webcam captured video.
The the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 76 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about asynchronous programming coming for all browsers, how to test service workers, formatting console log messages with CSS and templates, using JavaScript without loops, dynamic import of EcmaScript modules, and optimizing JavaScript startup.
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How to Make Your Children Learn JavaScript - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 75
By Manuel Lemos
Many developers have the desire that their children also become developers, so they try to help them to learn programming as soon as possible.
The techniques that were used by a father developer to persuade his son to learn JavaScript was one the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 75 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about how to see JavaScript code benchmarks on the browser developer console, the truth behind JavaScript benchmarks, how to write clean JavaScript code, 2016 JavaScript project rising stars, and regular expression handling improvements in EcmaScript.
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Finally Native Browser JavaScript Development with jQuery or Polyfills - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 74
By Manuel Lemos
Nowadays current browsers implement so many HTML5 APIs natively, that it is possible to write JavaScript applications without needing jQuery nor other polyfill libraries that emulate those APIs.
That was one the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 74 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the mo.js library for Easy Web motion using SVG, using pre-compiled frameworks with just the parts you need, combining emoji Unicode characters to create new emojis, efficient aysnchronous loading of JavaScript for modern browsers, and realtime image scaling using the CSS zoom property.
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Web Assembly Finally Getting Ready to Make JavaScript Applications Much Faster - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 73
By Manuel Lemos
Web Assembly is finally getting ready to be used in regular browsers, thus making it possible to compile and run JavaScript code in a much faster way.
That was one the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 73 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about EcmaScript 6 Async and Await features is also available now on Firefox, using Turbo.js library to program the user graphics board GPU to perform massive graphics operations much faster, creating holographic applications on Windows using JavaScript, etc..
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JavaScript Foundation Bring Consolidation to the community - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 72
By Manuel Lemos
With the growth of packages and tools for JavaScript development came a lot of fragmentation in the community. The JavaScript foundation aims to address that issue to simplify the lives of developers that nowadays have to deal with the complexity of choices of tools and libraries for similar purposes.
That was one the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 72 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about using the JavaScript Internationalization API in modern browsers, optimization of memory consumption of Chrome and Node.js, Yarn, the Facebook new JavaScript package manager, recognizing text in images with Tesseract.js, using ansync and await in Node.js 7, as well several other interesting new JavaScript libraries.
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Debug Node.js Web applications either on Browser and Server side with Chrome - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 71
By Manuel Lemos
The latest Chrome version can debug the code of Web applications running on the server using Node.js and single step both server side and browser side JavaScript.
That was one the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 71 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about a new standalone debug from Mozilla named debugger.html, optimization of bootstrap libraries in JavaScript, the complexity of JavaScript development in 2016, the preference of flavours of JavaScript among developers, etc..
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How to Control WordPress from JavaScript - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 70
By Manuel Lemos
Kasia is a library that can control a WordPress installation using its API from JavaScript. This library was one the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 70 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the differences between for and forEach, exploring Mithril for building Web interfaces, loading CSS dynamically in Web pages, rendering text fonts in JavaScrip natively, obfuscating DOM elements, using neural networks using DN2A, animated tooltips using GIFs, massive parallel programming in JavaScript using a GPU, and handling offline content with service workers.
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jQuery 3.1 Fixes Silenced Errors on Page Loading - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 69
By Manuel Lemos
The long awaited released of jQuery 3.0 happened last month but not with problems like page loading errors that were silenced due to the use of promises. The problem was fixed in jQuery 3.1.
This was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 69 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about the release of ESLint 3, V8 startup optimizations in version 5.3, building rich text editors with Slate library, extract meaning from Web pages using the Fathom library, an audio library with 3D audio suport and watercolor effects with Aquarelle.
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How Firefox is Making JavaScript Debugging More Productive - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 68
By Manuel Lemos
Recently Firefox introduced a feature that shows in browser console links to the documentation of each JavaScript error that may happen. This helps developers to quickly to understand the errors and fix the problems faster.
This was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 67 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about how make JavaScript testable using pure code, JavaScript variable hoisting, implementing applications based on Web Sockets and Server Sent events, jQuery 3.0 release, changing the way code JavaScript with TDD, how to take advantage of the spread operator, the EcmaScript 2016 specification, writing self documenting JavaScript code, and how to implement WebAssembly based applications on browsers that support it.
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How JavaScript is Reviving Desktop Applications with Electron - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 67
By Manuel Lemos
Electron is a library developed by GitHub that provides means to create and package desktop applications using the Chromium browser and Node.js.
The revival of desktop applications based on Electron was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 67 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about the latest developments of V8 engine that already supports EcmaScript 6 new JavaScript features, WebAssembly support in the browsers, running multiple tasks in the background with Web workers, etc..
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Modules and Custom Symbols in the Next JavaScript Version - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 66
By Manuel Lemos
The specification of EcmaScript 6 which will be the base of the next JavaScript version continues to evolve and now includes desired features like modules and custom operator symbols.
That was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 66 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked of the growth of NPM and how hard it became to determine which are the best packages for you, some nice libraries like CSSX for manipulating stylesheets programatically, ScrollBear to preserve scroll position on pages with images, some fun JavaScript comics from ComicStrip, the revival of Microsoft Clippy in your Web site pages, how to win nice printed certificate for the innovative JavaScript packages you publish, among other topics.
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Is JavaScript The Most Used Programming Language On Earth? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 65
By Manuel Lemos
A recent survey carried by StackOverflow confirmed that JavaScript is the most commonly useg programming language in the World. Whether that is true or not, was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 65 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about a JavaScript library to build 3D applications without WebGL nor Three.js, pausing animated GIFs, the polemic around ubpublishing packages from NPM, JavaScript speech recognition with dedicated browser APIs, fast migration of Web sites to mobile, among other topics.
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Gun.js: the GIT for Distributed NoSQL Databases - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 64
By Manuel Lemos
Imagine a NoSQL database that can work in a distributed way like Git, so if you lose the main database in the server, you can recover it from copy running on your Web browser. That database exists, it was developed by Mark Nadal and his team, and it is called Gun.js.
The live demo of Gun.js and the interview Mark Nadal gave to Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins was the main topic main topics discussed in the episode 64 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the features of EcmaScript 2017, creating single page apps with WordPress and Angular.js, the fatigue caused by the discussions about JavaScript fatigue, Chrome Debugging on Visual Studio Code IDE, among other topics.
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How HTTP 2 will Affect JavaScript Applications - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 63
By Manuel Lemos
Many applications Web applications bundle many files packed in a single file to make the delivery of those files require less connections. That is the case of CSS sprites or even combined JavaScript files.
However HTTP 2 makes that practice obsolete because it already multiplexes requests, so they only take a single connection to the server.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 63 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about how ParallelJS library simples creating applications using worker threads, the present and future of jQuery after the 10th anniversary, creting WebGL games based on Unity and JavaScript, what is isomorphic JavaScript and its benefits, etc..
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Doing JavaScript Background Tasks using Service Workers - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 62
By Manuel Lemos
Service Workers are Worker tasks that can run in the background even after the the browser tab that started them was closed.
The availability of Service Workers in Chrome was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 62 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the state of the Internet of the Things JavaScript support in 2015, the results of a JavaScript Developer survey, top must see JavaScript developer tools, Facebook ditching Flash for HTML 5 to play videos, and a light saber game that uses your mobile phone as controller.
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Is Wordpress Switching PHP for JavaScript? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 61
By Manuel Lemos
The recent announcement of the Calypso project for Wordpress that is based on Node.js and React.js libraries raised some concerns that Wordpress is switching to the JavaScript language.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 61 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked Adobe stopping to produce tools for Flash applications in favor of HTML5 and JavaScript solutions, a new standard API to access Bluetooth devices from HTML5 and JavaScript pages, Firefox marking login forms as insecure if they are processed via non-HTTPS pages, among other JavaScript related topics of interest.
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How Web Assembly Will Allow Compiling JavaScript or Any Language to Portable Binaries - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 60
By Manuel Lemos
The Web Assembly specification is being prepared to allow compiling JavaScript or any language to portable browser independent binaries. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 60 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about how to easily implement copy and paste functions in browsers without using Flash, how much slower JavaScript runs in Android when compared to iOS, programmer friendly asynchronous programming with async and await is coming to the next browsers, extended JSON that supports closure function types with LJSON, etc..
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Impressive JavaScript Computer Vision with Tracking.js - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 59
By Manuel Lemos
Tracking.js is a library that implements computer vision functions like OpenCV but all in JavaScript on the browser. The capabilities and demos of this impressive library were one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 59 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about JavaScript Webm Encoding library, Netflix Falcor library, security problems of single page applications, Node.js 4.1.0 release, viewing high resolution images on the browser using OpenSeadragon, etc..
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Take the Most of the Browser While the User is Idle - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 58
By Manuel Lemos
The newest version of Chrome (version 46) introduced a new callback function that allows JavaScript developers to execute background code while the user is idle (for instance reading an article). This feature opens new opportunities for applications to do some creative things.
This is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins that received Artem Salpagarov from Countly in the episode 58 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.
They also talked about the frontend testing with CasperJS, building MVC applications without HTML Templates using Mithril, Node.js 4.0 released as a merge with io.js among other interesting JavaScript discussions.
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