Ars Technica

Client-side JavaScript file processing may come via File API

A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla's Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the World ...
Network World

Hadoop on Windows Azure: Hive vs. JavaScript for processing big data

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...
TheServerSide

Node.js file upload example with Ajax and JavaScript

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The art of the file upload is not elegantly addressed in languages such as Java and Python. But ...
Wired

Opera Adds Carakan to Browser JavaScript Engine Wars

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser anywhere ...
InfoWorld

Intel pushes JavaScript changes to support parallel processing

Looking to speed up JavaScript applications, Intel is leading efforts to enable SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) capabilities in the official specification underlying JavaScript, although it ...
Ars Technica

Client-side JavaScript file processing may come via File API

W3C has published a new working draft of a proposed standard that will enable limited filesystem access from JavaScript. This will make it possible to do efficient ...