Last week, my former employer theOTHERmedia open-sourced the last project I worked on there: Helium. It’s a web application that lets you deploy JavaScript packages from Git and load them on-demand into any website by including a single script tag. There’s been a lot of innovation in JavaScript deployment recently, and Helium fits a particular [...]
A year to the day since the initial release, and following the new release of Gruff a couple of weeks ago, I’m happy to announce the release of Bluff 0.3.6. This is largely a maintenance release that pulls in patches that have gone into Gruff in the past twelve months, but it does introduce a [...]
Having managed to go the weekend without making any more fiddly changes to it, I’m finally pushing JS.Class 2.1 out of its Git repo and into the real world. The major updates in this release are a Hash implementation, a much-improved package manager that runs on server-side platforms, and lots of updates taken from Ruby [...]
Been a while since we had a good rant, what with Zed calming down and Giles talking about winding up his blog. I had a great post lined up on browser performance and why all the advice you’ve heard is wrong and so on and so on, and I’d gathered tons of data and sunk [...]
We (which is to say, theOTHERmedia) just pushed out version 0.4.0 of Ojay, our JavaScript library that builds on top of the Yahoo! User Interface library. Also I just realised that I never properly announced the 0.3 release (which came out in December) here, so I should probably catch you up in case it looked [...]
Quick announcement: if you’re still running JS.Class 1.6, you’ll want to upgrade to the just-released 1.6.3 release which fixes a major bug introduced by Safari 4. This browser makes Function#prototype non-enumerable until it is overwritten by the user. This caused a check in JS.Class to fail, causing classes to become their own parents and cause [...]
Dean Edwards recently released version 3.1 of Packer, his JavaScript compression tool. You’ll be pleased to know I’ve been keeping up with development, and I’ve just released PackR 3.1. PackR is a Ruby version of Packer that can be used from the command line or within Ruby apps. sudo gem install packr This release improves [...]
It’s been out and about a couple months now, and I’ve been putting it to good use in the upcoming release of Ojay. The new version (fingers crossed it’ll be out by the end of the month) features an extension to the custom event system that lets events published using Observable ‘bubble’ up the type [...]
First off, let me say that the response to the release of Bluff over the last couple of weeks has been astonishing, due in no small part to a helpful link from John Gruber. Thanks to everyone who’s reported bugs and suggested features; some of these have now been fixed but others will need to [...]
I put out a few new software releases over the last few days, and thought I’d gather them into one post rather than lots of little ones. Let’s start with the biggest. Update: for those wishing to contribute bug reports (as failing test cases) and patches, Bluff is hosted on Github. In what can only [...]
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