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JSConf 2010, Track B, “Dude, Where’s My UI Architecture?”

If you haven’t yet read my ode to why Node.js is awesome, stop and go do so now. It should be no surprise by now that I am giddy like a school girl over the idea of using server-side JavaScript to revolutionize the web application stack. And perhaps no other project has captured more of [...]

If you’re even moderately involved in the JavaScript world these days (and you probably are if you’re reading this blog) you would have to be dead asleep to not have noticed and heard some of the hype and celebration for the poster-child for server-side JavaScript: Node.js.
I regularly follow the chatter on the interwebs, and [...]

Continuing my ongoing efforts to simplify the middle-end, this post will focus on a high-level discussion of how you might start to adjust and adapt the middle-end concepts (CVC pattern) for use in a CMS environment, for instance a WordPress blog.
As with everything else I’ve presented so far, I have no cleanly packaged “install” you [...]

In the previous post, I distilled down into a simple definition what I call the “middle-end” of web applications and also my arguments for why it’s so vitally important that it be a separate and distinct layer rather than an assumed and forgotten tag-along as it is in many common frameworks/platforms.
But upon further discussion and [...]

Those who follow me on twitter or have heard me speaking at tech conferences this year have heard me repeatedly clamoring on about something I call the “middle-end”, or alternately, “UI Architecture”. In fact, I just finished up a 3-part article series for JSMag on “The Rise of the Middle-End”. If you want some real [...]