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Podcast Description
Brendan Eich, the father of JS and CTO of Mozilla, providing you with lightning fast updates of what is upcoming and exciting in the world of JS and programming at large. Super hot morsels of juicy geekery to infuse your day with excitement and thought! Be sure to register for continual updates, because each week will be releasing a new update just for you!. If you have a minute, use it here.
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Boot To Gecko (B2G) | Back from JSConf EU and other travels, the minute with team is happy to return with a special episode from Brendan about the new Boot To Gecko (B2G) system. This is targeted to allow users of mobile devices to boot directly to a Gecko based browsing inte | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ES6 Lives! | Brendan goes through the recent happenings at the ECMA TC-39 committee meeting held at Microsoft offices in Redmond, WA. For many, this might be the first peek into what is finalizing as ES6, so be sure to listen through. Luckily with the recent changes, | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We (Mozilla) Fight For the User | Hot on the heels of recent announcements from Mozilla about strategy, personnel, and general company changes, Brendan provides us with almost 12 minutes of very deep insight into the future of Mozilla and the web. As a long term citizen of the web, open | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PDF ala JS | Taking the web by storm, PDF.js is a PDF viewer implementation done entirely in open web technologies by some of the fine folks at Mozilla. Bringing the pixel publishing perfection that is PDF down to the JS layer is something that seems obvious, but has | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Post JSConf JS.next Overview | Fresh off of JSConf and discussing (ES|JS).next before the audience, Brendan drops a bit of insight into what it takes to update a language like JavaScript. Sorry for the delay since last episode, we generally will go into "off-season" around JSConf. Bre | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DOM In JavaScript (dom.js) | Another TC-39 Committee meeting means even more insight into where the JS programming language is heading next (ES-Next). This does send Brendan off on a wild ride with us as passengers for all things upcoming in the language including a peek at WebIDL a | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Firefox 4 Launch Day | Brendan dives into the upcoming/recent Firefox 4 release on March 22, 2011. Goes into far more than just what is new, but where it came from and most importantly where it (and the rest of the vendors) are heading and why. Best 11 minutes of your day (12 | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why JavaScript Doesn't Have Operators Yet? | Brendan goes through the discussion of why JavaScript hasn't evolved that much, but more importantly how its evolving moving forward with ES5 and Harmony. Specifically the focus is on operators and the ability to override or extending the language with o | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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this Talk | Any JS developer will tell you that the hardest conversation to have with any other developer is describing the use and meaning of the "this" keyword. Brendan describes where "this" comes from, a hold-over from its C++ and Java lineage to allow functions | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Closure Versus Prototypal Pattern Deathmatch | Brendan gets a special request from the audience about which is more optimized and why, the Closure pattern espoused by Douglas Crockford, OR the standard JavaScript Prototypal inheritance pattern. A longer (or normal depending on perspective) and more n | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Harmony Of My Dreams | Realistically, coming up with show notes for this episode is about as tough as keeping Brendan to under 10 minutes. Give it a listen and trace along with the mentioned Harmony Of My Dreams blog post. The notes are more just hot points this week, enjoy th | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Future Harmony, Today! | Brendan returns for holidays with a jam packed, 10 minute episode detailing the ever increasing usefulness of Zaphod and Narcissus for rapid prototyping and testing of new, proposed features of the JavaScript language. He also discusses the potential new | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JavaScript, Hyperspeed | The Google Chrome team announces tremendous gains in performance and speed for their V8 engine and Brendan discusses how this is a very, very good thing for all involved. It shows that in the world of JS performance there is still much work that can and | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Programming Languages and Rust | A ~9 minute discussion on the upcoming Rust programming language in the context of why we still need new programming languages. Quite the interesting discussion to listen to especially since Brendan is one of the few language inventors who is both mainta | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ECMA, TC-39, and Bears - Oh My! | Enough buzzwords and acronyms! Brendan gets serious about actually describing the committee process around JS, or as it is more formally known ECMAScript. Brendan rocks for 13.5 minutes on everything from what ECMAScript and what TC-39 means, where to le | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bytecode Standard In Browsers | Sit down and plug in for a 10 minute discussion of bytecode standards and other such stuff in the browser and how it has been attempted (and stalled) in the past. This also goes through several of the new improvements coming in the language that will mak | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The arguments Argument | From a listener request, Brendan drives a relatively concise discussion around the topic of the mysterious (and often confusing) 'arguments' object that is available within a function body in JavaScript. This goes into the upcoming spread, splat, and res | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Threaded Discussion | Opening Pandora's box this week with a rather long and super deep discussion on the topic of threading, co-routines, and parallel programming as it applies to JavaScript and Garbage Collectors. This one is for the record books in terms of jam packed nerd | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deep Dive on ES-Harmony Modules | Because so many people thought the previous episode on modules was too short despite being roughly 1 minute (actually they thought there was an error with the file), Brendan Has nicely provided us with a major deep dive on the concept of modules with Jav | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Numbers and jwz | It is not often that you get to hear about the "good ole days" (1990s, for those wondering) and especially rare to hear the stories from deep inside Netscape. This week we get a peek in to some of the decisions that made JavaScript AND that period of tim | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking Out The Garbage (Collector) | It is time to geek out once again, but this time with Garbage Collection and Compartments. Compartments are separate garbage collected heaps for each window/tab. Brendan gives a great overview of the current garbage collection in previous versions of Fir | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Narcissus and Zaphod | A through discussion (~5 minutes) of the Narcissus JavaScript in JavaScript implementation and how it is being used within Mozilla and Firefox 4. Renewed interest has sprung around Narcissus thanks to some hard work from Mozilla interns that allows it to | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Future JavaScript | A swift discussion of the next generation language space and mentions of the various new items coming from the ECMA committee.TraitsSmalltalkRuby ModulesRolling their own | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Meeting Of The Monkeys | The recent Firefox 4 beta 7 harkens the bringing together of the latest Mozilla monkey, JaegerMonkey. This integrates the next generation of Just-In-Time compilation and a lot of various improvements and static analysis.JaegerMonkeyGoogle Chrome v8Apple | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ES5 Strict Mode, Use With Caution | "use strict"; Almost 7 minutes of awesome ES5 strict mode discussion about what strict mode is and why you should be avoiding it when using file concatenation on JavaScript. If you know what you are doing, you should use it, otherwise it would be wise to | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Firefox 4 | All about the upcoming release of Firefox 4 including the new SpiderMonkey JS interpreter including what is upcoming with web workers and web sockets. For some awesome examples of sockets and workers, checkout the recent applications created as part of N | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JS Type Inference and Static Analysis | Deep dive into cutting edge JS type inference and static analysis efforts.Dimitris Vardoulakisnode.jsDoctor JSjsctagsPatrick WaltonBespinPrototype is up somewhereJaegerMonkeyBrian HackettMinefieldFirefox 4 | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of JS Benchmarking | Super deep insight into JS Benchmarking and what is coming from Mozilla and Microsoft Research. Discussions about what is wrong with current benchmarking apparatuses and how things are going to improve. Listen in for the long haul, (yes it is longer than | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 28 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
The Master in the field
Listening to the man who developed ECMAScript all those years ago talk about the language and potential changes is an amazing thing. With every episode I feel more and more drawn to teach myself more computer science topics I had not branched into learning yet.
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