Published at: 04:07 pm - Thursday July 15 2010
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 [...]
Published at: 09:07 am - Thursday July 15 2010
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 [...]
Published at: 10:07 am - Tuesday July 13 2010
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 [...]
Published at: 11:07 am - Thursday July 08 2010
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 [...]
Published at: 01:02 pm - Thursday February 04 2010
Disclaimer
Before I begin, let me share my personal mantra: “everyone is entitled to their own (wrong) opinions.” This includes me. This post is purely opinion. It’s an editorial. It means nothing unless you care what my opinion is. If you’re easily offended, or if you just love HAML, or if you’re a closed minded bigot, [...]
Published at: 01:12 am - Tuesday December 01 2009
Last week, I asserted that DOM-ready detection sucks because there’s a chicken-and-the-egg problem where some frameworks (like jQuery 1.3.2 and before) that do DOM-ready detection have trouble detecting the “event” if the framework is loaded dynamically after DOM-ready has already occurred.
I stand by that assertion, especially now that you’ve seen the launch of LABjs 1.0, [...]