JavaScript

For Web developers like me, one of the most burning questions is "why does the page look like this?" Firebug is a free add-on for Firefox that can answer that question very quickly and in great detail. With over 1.6 million users and a five-star review average from 1,144 user reviews, Firebug 1.8.4 is a must-have Web development utility, especially when you consider the price tag (free).

Researcher Yufan Lu, who has jailbroken previous versions of the Kindle OS, found an unaccountably simple way in to the most recent version: Run an MP3 file he coded with the jailbreak and encrypted user access. Real usability will have to wait for new apps, however.

JavaScript is one of the most common scripting languages in the world. In fact, you're almost certainly using it right now, even if you're unaware of the fact. Every modern desktop and mobile Web browser supports JavaScript, and it's used in just about every current website. Cloud9 IDE is a Web-based development environment aimed at making it easier to develop JavaScript-based Web applications. It lives in the cloud, so you need only a Web browser to use it.

Anonymous plans to lead the OccupyWallStreet protests scheduled to begin Saturday by launching #Ref#Ref, the more effective replacement for its aging DDOS app LOIC. Who or what it will attack isn't clear, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to hit the ATM Friday night, anyway.

More than 5,000 iOS developers are in San Francisco for Apple's big party at the Worldwide Developers Conference, but a new report says the hippest place to be is the Android Market. The study, from Bluevia and Vision Mobile, found that 67 percent of developers code for Android, while iOS trails at 59 percent.

To the dismay of .NET developers, Windows 8 seems to be betting big on HTML5 and JavaScript--which leaves them working with .NET on mobile platforms. So hey, guess which new Mono startup is highlighting .NET development on iOS and Android? And what might this mean for Mono on Linux?

Node.js, Jaxer, EJScript, RingoJS, and AppengineJS combine the familiarity of JavaScript, low overhead, blazing speed, and unique twists.

Which browser is best for security, speed, and compliance with web standards? To find out, we ran the new versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari through a battery of benchmark tests. Here's how they stack up.

It may be too soon after the first of the year to see it, but we're still looking for evidence there's as much IT hiring going on as analysts predicted.

Microsoft's top executive for Internet Explorer (IE) today dismissed browser speed trials as 'at best, not very useful, and at worst, misleading.'

From Ruby to Erlang, once niche programming language are gaining converts in today’s enterprise