MoscowJS, Radiohead WebGL, Web Typography, Opa
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MoscowJS
Moscow now has its very own JavaScript meet up: Moscow JavaScript Meetup. This is organised by Oleg Podsechin who has written for DailyJS, and Anton Korenyushkin, who founded Akshell.
Find out more by following the Moscow JavaScript Twitter account.
Oleg said they’ve had 100 people sign up within 24 hours of announcing the event, so it’s probably a good idea to register now!
Radiohead WebGL
Radiohead WebGL by Mikko Haapoja uses the House of Cards dataset to render an interesting 3D visualisation.
Web Typography for the Lonely
Web Typography for the Lonely (sent in by @sstarr) aims to draw designers into our wonderful world of CSS3 and JavaScript. Some of the examples are really interesting, particularly Punchout.
If you’re a fan of Lettering.js this should be up your alley.
Opa
Opa is now open source (GitHub: MLstate / opalang, License: GNU Affero). They announced it to us as part of promoting their Opa Developer Challenge.
Opa is a full-stack platform for building web applications that can be easily deployed to cloud services or a private server. It includes the Opa language, and generates suitable client-side code for browsers.
In a sense it reminds me of projects like SproutCore and Cappuccino, but it’s taking an approach more like server-oriented architectures that have cropped up over the last decade (yet failed to catch on, for example: JWIG).
If this sounds interesting, there’s a great book on Opa here: Simple, Secure, Scalable Web Development with Opa.
