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04/21/10--03:57: Hi from Oni Labs! (chan 2807310)

As our web page says, we are developing a platform for real-time web applications. Why another platform, you may ask? Well, we think what makes Oni unique is that we build on one language on both the client and on the server: JavaScript. But it's not quite the JavaScript you know, it's JavaScript with a twist...

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09/16/10--10:32: Flickr cities tutorial (chan 2807310)

This is a tutorial explaining how the Flickr Cities demo makes use of StratifiedJS and Oni Apollo. The whole code is included in the article, mixed with comments and links to the Apollo API documentation...

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09/16/10--10:32: Oni Apollo 0.9 (chan 2807310)

We're pleased to announce the first release of Oni Apollo. Oni Apollo is a small (~20kB gzipped), MIT-licensed cross-browser JS library for client-side stratified programming. It comprises a Stratified JavaScript VM, and a CommonJS-compliant module system. We've also prepacked some modules for common stratified programming tasks and for accessing common web services such as Yahoo's Query Language API and various Google APIs...

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09/21/10--12:08: Apollo overview video (chan 2807310)

A short video about Apollo and StratifiedJS combined with a StratifiedJS console. Learn about the module system, require, hold, waitfor... and try it right on the page.

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09/30/10--15:16: Oni Apollo 0.9.2 with Twitter Anywhere support (chan 2807310)

We're pleased to announce the release of . For the full list of changes please consult the commit history in our repository.

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11/02/10--12:04: Drones: A StratifiedJS canvas game (chan 2807310)

Here's a fun little StratifiedJS game that we wrote over the weekend: Drones

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11/19/10--08:57: Oni Apollo 0.10.0: less bytes and modularized! (chan 2807310)

We're pleased to announce the release of .

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12/01/10--02:42: Stratifying asynchronous storage (chan 2807310)

I came across this awesome article explaining why asynchronous programming in JavaScript can be painful, called 'Taming asynchronous JS with CoffeeScript' by Tim Cuthbertson. Here's a quote from the article, but I suggest you read the whole thing...

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12/21/10--04:42: Stratified Node.js: IO performance (chan 2807310)

Some people have asked us what effect StratifiedJS has on the overall performance of their application. So as a start we did some thorough profiling of the upcoming server-side StratifiedJS implementation and ended up with some interesting results (benchmark graphs included ;) ).

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03/01/11--04:49: Oni Apollo 0.11: Bug fixes, StratifiedJS improvements and syntactic sugar (chan 2807310)

We're pleased to announce the release of version 0.11 of the client-side StratifiedJS runtime

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03/27/11--22:30: Oni Apollo 0.12: Cross-domain module loading directly from GitHub (chan 2807310)

We're pleased to announce the release of version 0.12 of the client-side StratifiedJS runtime .

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10/06/11--07:57: Oni Apollo 0.13: 'Official' NodeJS-based server-side support (chan 2807310)

We're pleased to announce the release of version 0.13 of our multi-platform StratifiedJS implementation .

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01/02/12--21:07: Megazine: A stratified social links dashboard (chan 2807310)

To celebrate the release of 0.13, we've put together a small app to show the latest links from various news sources, including the front page of hacker news, your twitter feed, and any RSS feed you want - it's called megazine.

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