What's Coming in Sencha Touch 2.3

Sencha Touch 2.3 is nearing release and this blog post runs down what we can expect in the latest version of our favourite mobile framework.

Sencha Cmd v4.0 RC is Now Available

Don Griffin announces that the release candidate for Sencha Cmd 4 has been released and can be downloaded today.

Sencha Cmd Packages - Including Controllers

Arthur Kay demonstrates an excellent tip on how to include a Controller class from a Package into your app.js file.

Sencha Touch + WebRTC!

This demo shows off a WebRTC extension for Sencha Touch that shows how the technology can work within a Sencha Touch app. A very interesting demo!

Simplifying Grunt Jasmine tests for Ext.js

Matt Goldspink introduces a new Grunt plugin that allows Jasmine tests to be integrated into your Ext JS project more easily.

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Understanding ECMAScript 6 arrow functions

An introduction into the new "arrow function" syntax introduced by ECMAScript 6. This article explains the new syntax, how it works and how it differs from a traditional function statement.

JS Conf YouTube Channel

All of the great talks from this year's JSConf (both US & EU) are available on their YouTube channel. The talks cover a huge number of topics so there will be something to interest everyone.

Ignoring library code while debugging in Chrome

Chrome and FireFox have introduced useful tools to their debuggers to allow you to ignore calls to library function when stepping through code so you don't have to skip in and out of the function manually. A useful post explaining how to enable it and use it.

Nested Higher-Order Functions in JavaScript

John Mumm explains Higher-Order Functions and how we can use and manage them. A concept that can become very complicated very quickly and should be used carefully but John steps through the process of using them to ensure they can be easily followed.

Getting to know Mutation Observers

This articles from Opera talks about Mutation Observers, which are an asynchronous way of observing changes within the DOM, and explains what they are and how they work.

Using Hardware to Decode and Load JPG Images up to 45% faster in Internet Explorer 11

An interesting article about Internet Explorer 11's approach to image decoding which they offload to the graphics hardware. Resulting in 45% faster image load this is a big improvement. The article goes into details of how it works and what they are doing differently.

Ellipse my text…

Kyle Simpson discusses the options available to us for truncating text and showing ellipsis when our content is too long. This technique is very commonly used but isn't always straight forward to implement - Kyle shows the best options out there.

CSS Length Explained

Lengths in CSS are a tricky business with a huge number of options all with slightly different representations across all the available devices. This article explores each one and where it fits in the grand scheme of things.

Which of these configurations will prevent the vertical scrollbar from hiding after a scroll has finished? (Thanks to Mitchell Simoens (@SenchaMitch) for inspiration for this weeks quiz!)

scrollable: {
    hideYScrollbar: false
}

scrollable: {
    indicators: {
        autoHide: false
    }
}

scrollable: {
    indicators: {
        y: {
            autoHide: false
        }
    }
}

scrollable: {
    y: {
        autoHide: false
    }
}

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