Adam and Wynn caught up with the developers behind CDNJS, a community-powered CDN for JavaScript libraries.

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• CDNJS aims to make the web faster by putting more shared JavaScript on a content delivery network.
• We’re now part of the Fusion Network
• Catch up with us at The Big (D)esign Conference
• We’ll be at Lone Star Ruby Conference 2011
• Ryan Kirkman, Co-Founder of Protosal.
• Thomas Davis, Co-Founder of Protosal, also runs backbonetutorials.com
• Fork the GitHub project to get your script included
• A CDN helps serve assets from servers closer to the user.
• CloudFlare sponsors the project.
• Cached Commons has some of the same goals, but uses GitHub as a provider.
• CDNJS packages uses the same format as NPM
• The Google Library API hosts most of the major JavaScript frameworks.
• Microjs is a micro-site for micro-frameworks
• Protosal lets you generate proposals using templates and variables to save time.
• cdnjs-command is a Ruby gem command line helper for CDNJS.
• Backbone.js is a lightweight MVC framework for client-side JavaScript.
• Brunch A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity.

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