Dart Community News, 21st Dec 2012

Christmas Kitten!

Well, we all survived the latest end of the world, so welcome to a festive edition of Dartwatch community news. In case you missed it, the big news is that Dart has now reached Milestone 2 - Dart is another step closer to being ready for prime-time, and you can read all about the milestone 2 changes on the dartlang website*. Grab the latest version of the Dart Editor, and get coding!

* Also, check out the Japanese translation of Dart Milestone 2 What's New - 勝手翻訳, by +Naoto Tadano

Have you joined the Dart Community on Google + yet? Why not!!! Come on over and say hello. Show and tell what you're building.

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Latest Dart News

• Buckshot, a Dart UI framework that WPF developers will find familiar, now has a TodoMVC demo.
  
• Check out the live demo
• View the source at github

• Rikulo, a Dart App framework, has released a version of Todo MVC built with Rikulo.
  
• Read about how they built it.
• View the source at github

• Congratulations to +Kai Sellgren and +Alexander Ardhuin on being the 4th and 5th to be awarded the Dart Badge on Stackoverflow.
  
• Who is going to be the sixth? Come and answer some dart questions.

• Have you been using Pub, Dart's package manager? Did you know that you can now host your own packages on Google's infrastructure at pub.dartlang.org?
  
• Read the latest news on how to host your own pub packages.

• +Christophe Herreman has started a poc to port Bootstrap to Dart
  
• Check out the source on github

• +Adam Singer spotted a code review of a Dart app to view dartdocs. It's written with Web UI.
  
• Are you using Web UI yet? No? Then learn about it here!

• +Gilad Bracha has created an article about the future of mixins in Dart.
  
• Read about this up-coming feature.

• +Patrick Dubroy has blogged about how Dart's mirrors separate reflection from the core behaviour of objects.
  
• Read his blog post

• +Kevin Moore's "Pop Pop Win" Dart Game is now available as a Chrome Packaged App on the webstore. (that's an app that looks like native app)
  
• Check out the Pop Pop Win on the Chrome Webstore.
• Read more about the awesomeness of Chrome Packaged Apps

• +Seth Ladd spoke earlier in the year at Devoxx 2012. You can now view the video.
  
• Check out the video and slides.

• +Chris Buckett's book (yes, that's me), 'Dart in Action' has finally gone to print.
  
• Take a look here - includes free download of chapter 1 and chapter 9.

Happy Holidays from Dartwatch