There are too many JavaScript class patterns and inheritance APIs out there. Here is another one. The twist: Its core construct is a function, not an object literal.

Update 2011-11-19: Bridging the module gap between Node.js and browsers

This post explains Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD), a standard for defining modules in JavaScript and contrasts it with the currently very popular CommonJS synchronous modules.

On Oct 4th, Chris Williams (@voodootikigod) published logo.js on GitHub.

Today, it has finally happened: At the GOTO conference, Google has officially presented its new programming language, Dart. This post gives an overview of Dart and provides a few comments on how it fits into the current programming language landscape.

This post shows you how to use “find” and “grep” to search for a text string in all files that are directly or indirectly contained in a given directory.

This post shows two ways of displaying a square root with HTML.

Sencha has recently published a first look at the Internet Explorer 10 preview [via Sacha Storz]. This post summarizes the main points.

On September 18, 2011, Brendan Eich held a talk at CapitolJS. In it, he covered more details on what will be in ECMAScript.next; how to react to the complaints voiced by Dart’s creators; and RiverTrail, a JavaScript extensions for parallel programming. This post summarizes the highlights of the first two topics.

In ECMAScript 6, template strings [^1] are a syntactic construct that facilitates the implementation of embedded domain-specific languages (DSLs) in JavaScript. They were originally called “quasi-literals”. This blog post explains how they work.

Warning: This blog post is slightly outdated. The terminology has changed:

• Template literal (was: template string): `abc`
• Tagged template (was: tagged template string): func`abc`
• Tag function (was: template handler): func from previous item

Brendan Eich mentions features that are candidates for ECMAScript 6, 7 and 8: