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The Best of Both Worlds, CANjs
Brian Moschel introduces CanJS, a lightweight JavaScript framework for writing rich client-side applications, comparing it with with Backbone.js, Ember, and Knockout.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets discusses strategies for creating large JavaScript MVC apps, and using PhoneGap for accessing native device capabilities and for packaging HTML apps.
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Backbone.js
Jeremy Ashkenas introduces Backbone.js, a JavaScript data modeling framework intended to decouple data handling code from the DOM, being useful especially when the user interacts with the data.
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby)
Allen Rohner discusses the benefits and the problems of mixing Clojure and JRuby running them in the same process, making some recommendations at the end.
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Building Rich User Experiences without JavaScript Spaghetti
Jared Faris provides 3 principles –decouple everything, make it testable, push events not state – and some patterns which help avoiding creating JavaScript spaghetti code over time.
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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)
Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.
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Experiences and Requirements for a User Interaction Modeling Language
Marco Brambilla and Emanuele Molteni discuss standardization efforts regarding User Interaction modeling along with WebML and WebRatio, an application debugging and prototyping tool.
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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
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Fast, Easy Usability Tricks for Big Product Improvements
Chris Nodder shares tips for getting a product vision, a high-level design, and a plan for the first sprints of a new product in one week.
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Creating a Metro Style Geospatial Application Using Windows 8, HTML5, and JavaScript
Jason Follas explains how to create a Windows Metro application processing geo-spatial data coming from hardware sensors with HTML and JavaScript/WinJS.
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Taming JavaScript with Cloud9 IDE: a Tale of Tree Hugging
Zef Hemel introduces the Cloud9 JavaScript IDE, especially the static analysis library including inline error and warning highlighting, the rename refactoring and code completion.
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CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar
Daniel Mohl introduces CoffeeScript: what it is, what’s good for, how is different from other similar languages, what makes it more readable than JavaScript, some minuses, and code samples.
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