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Archive for March 2010

JS.Class and Helium updates

In Helium, JS.Class, JavaScript on 9 March 2010 with 1 comment

Just a quickie to let you know I’ve pushed out new minor releases of JS.Class and Helium tonight. The updates in JS.Class 2.1.4 center around a totally rewritten package manager that uses an event cycle to trigger dependency downloads instead of polling packages to find out when they’re ready to load; this should make a [...]

Faye gets server-side clients

In Evented, Faye, JavaScript, Node, Ruby on 1 March 2010 with no comments

After its initial release a few weeks ago, the number one feature requested for Faye has been server-side clients. The first version let JavaScript running in the browser send messages, but now you can create a client on the server side to let your backend applications subscribe and publish messages. We’ve got clients for Node.js [...]