The May 2009 JSMag is now available. This month:

Mashups from the Ground Up (Josh Holmes)
Flex/AJAX Bridge Gotchas (Michael Pelz-Sherman)
Demystifying Custom Events in jQuery (Rebecca Murphey)
Web Testing with Windmill (Adam Christian)
RIA Revolution (Leon Gersing)
Book excerpt from “JavaScript for Programmers” (Deitel, Deitel)
Community News (Matt Henry)

More info can be found at http://jsmag.com/latest

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Reposting here from the JavaScript Magazine blog:
JSMag is holding a contest to find a cover photo for its next issue.  The selected winner will receive a gift certificate to BN.com or Amazon.com (winner’s choice) and a free subscription to JSMag.
Submitted photos need to be black and white, and at a resolution for printing, but other [...]

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Here we go! 
We’re committed to getting Javascript Magazine out the door on March 2.
A few short notes:

The magazine will be PDF only to start with - print version may come later, depending on demand levels
The magazine is tentatively priced at $4.99 per month
We have some great content for the first issue(!)
We’re [...]

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Testing out the demand for a community site focusing on Javascript developers. When I was investigating the Javascript Magazine idea (still in the works - got some great contributors potentially lined up!) I realized that Javascript is everywhere, yet nowhere. There are few, if any, Javascript user groups or similar resources out there. [...]

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I’m in the planning stages of a Javascript magazine, similar to the GroovyMag publication I’ve already got out.  Before jumping in too deep, I’m looking to gauge interest in the idea.  Are you interested in a monthly Javascript magazine?  If so, click the link above and sign up.  Or, just leave a comment below.  :) [...]

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Nathan from onWired (a local web company) gave a presentation on jQuery, which has repiqued my interest in it. The docs were always a shortcoming, but Aptana has had scriptdoc support for jQuery for awhile now. I think if I need to do more AJAXy stuff, I’ll try jQuery for my next project. [...]

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I’ve put up a small survey which I’m hoping will help me get an idea of whether there’s any connection between computer language choice and religious identification.  Do Catholics gravitate towards Java?  Are Python users more likely to be Baptist?  It’s basically a ‘fun’ thing - I don’t claim it’ll be scientific, but I’m still [...]

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Whew!  The last several months have brought a flurry of web tech activity, the likes of which I haven’t seen in years.
Apollo/Silverlight/JavaFX all are aiming at reinventing in-browser development.
Yahoo Pipes, Ning, Coghead and some other platforms are giving us new ways to think about web-based development.
The YUI/Dojo/Scriptaculous/Atlas/jQuery/GWT AJAX toolkits - what can I say?  They [...]

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I was using the what-I-thought-was-the-standard JSON javascript library and ran in to a weird annoyance.  The toJSONString() method will take any arbitrary object or array and serialize the entire thing.  However, the parseJSON() method won’t unserialize recursively.  I ended up with values in my object which were just serialized JSON strings, which I needed to [...]

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