--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 262" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 262 published_at: "2015-12-11" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/262" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 262 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/262) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 262 — December 11, 2015 For today **only**, we've partnered with Manning Publications on a 50% sale of [Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja](https://www.manning.com/books/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninja-second-edition), [JavaScript Application Design](https://www.manning.com/books/javascript-application-design) & [Third Party JavaScript](https://www.manning.com/books/third-party-javascript). Use code `dotd121115cc` to get the 50%. Not interested? 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Lea Verou [JavaScript Developer Survey Results](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/javascript-developer-survey-results) Nicolas Bevacqua ran a survey on his popular JavaScript blog and got over 5000 responses. Get insights into the community’s use of testing, semicolons, CI, build scripts, and more. Nicolas Bevacqua [![Frontline Systems Inc.\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8aab341e.png)](https://rason.com/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)[Try RASON® – RESTful Analytic Solver® Object Notation for JavaScript](https://rason.com/)[RASON®](https://rason.com/) is the super-easy way to solve powerful optimization and simulation models in your web or mobile app. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, and a simple, Azure-backed REST API that’s free for small problems, but scalable to handle huge models. 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