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TraceGL: A JavaScript Codeflow Visualization and Debugging Tool using WebGL 23 Apr 2013 | 10:15 pm
Rik Arends has just released TraceGL, an interesting JavaScript codeflow debugging tool using WebGL for its UI rendering. Described as “an oscilloscope, for code”, TraceGL is an improvement on the fa...
Link: Excellent Article Clarifying Mozilla's asm.js Project by John Resig 3 Apr 2013 | 10:03 pm
John Resig has written an excellent article clarifying some of the questions that have arisen over the past few weeks regarding Mozilla’s asm.js project. If you haven’t heard of it already, asm.js is ...
An Iron Man Like 3d Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js 7 Mar 2013 | 08:37 pm
The Leap Motion is a very cool piece of technology. It’s a small $80 box that you can put on your desk to control an ordinary computer using hand motions. It’s extremely accurate, allowing for very ...
Rawson.js: A JavaScript Camera RAW File Viewer Ported with Emscripten 6 Mar 2013 | 12:05 am
Rawson.js, by Franz Buchinger, is a JavaScript renderer for RAW image files in the browser. It uses an Emscripten port of the dcraw C library to JavaScript to render in a canvas element. Rawson.js c...
Parallel.js: A JavaScript Multicore Processing Library Using Web Workers 26 Feb 2013 | 11:15 pm
Parallel.js is a very nice looking wrapper around JavaScript Web Workers making some interesting applications of multicore/parallelized processing in JavaScript much easier. Usually with Web Workers,...
Holla: A Sugary API Abstraction for WebRTC Voice and Video Calling in the Browser 19 Feb 2013 | 11:25 pm
I posted about PeerJS recently, which is a nice API on top of WebRTC for peer-to-peer networking of arbitrary data. However, one of the main selling points for WebRTC is its voice and video calling s...
asm.js: A Low Level, Highly Optimizable Subset of JavaScript for Compilers 19 Feb 2013 | 12:52 am
David Herman, Luke Wagner, and Alon Zakai (also the developer of Emscripten) of Mozilla have been working on the asm.js spec, which aims to be a subset of the JavaScript language that can be highly op...
Qt GUI Toolkit Ported to JavaScript via Emscripten 15 Feb 2013 | 10:54 pm
We have seen a lot of projects get compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten, including LLVM itself, but nothing quite as complicated and impressive as emscripten-qt, a port of the Qt cross platform GUI t...
PeerJS: A Peer to Peer Networking Library in JavaScript using WebRTC 15 Feb 2013 | 12:23 am
I just caught wind of PeerJS, a project that makes peer to peer networking using the new WebRTC browser APIs easier. WebRTC is extremely cutting edge and the library currently only works in Chrome Ca...
Node.js Source Map Support for Better Compiled JavaScript Debugging 8 Feb 2013 | 09:58 pm
Evan Wallace, who’s work I’ve covered several times before has been working on a module to add source map support to Node.js. Source maps will be really important for debugging compiled to JavaScript...
