Javascript

Rivet Advanced JavaScript Combiner v2 Released

Rivet Advanced JavaScript Combiner v2 Released

I have been continuing my work with Arnold Zokas on building a scaleable JavaScript solution which combines with a simple console app. It was initially created for use with Juxtapo but as it has grown I felt it needed it’s own identity and so have renamed it “Rivet”.

It’s not only had a name change, we have also been adding new features and test cases and have now got a rich and stable version 2 release.

New Juxtapo article on the Aqueduct site

New Juxtapo article on the Aqueduct site

I can’t believe how long it has been since my last post. Things certainly haven’t been quiet. I have a few things up my sleeve to show you in the near future but just wanted to point you to a new Juxtapo article I wrote for the Aqueduct Blog talking about it’s different features, how we use it along with a download of examples.

Some worthwhile reading

Some worthwhile reading

I’ve come across some really good articles recently which I thought I would share.

Responsive Web Design

There is a lot of talk going around about using CSS media queries to create flexible, fluid and responsive web sites. I have been doing some work at getting this website to restructure itself on smaller screens and I’ve found these articles really helpful.

A List Apart, Responsive Web Design

a list apart This article does a step by step walkthrough of a design made by the author.

sjs, making server-side JavaScript easy

I have been working on a new server-side JavaScript framework insired by jQuery called sjs. I wanted to give a developer the ability to distribute a JavaScript program which could be run on various platforms. I have initially chosen two to support: Mozilla Rhino and Microsoft CScript. This means that the scripts you have written would work cross platform on Windows, Linux, Mac.

Here is an example of what you can do: