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If you haven’t noticed yet, almost every one of my blog posts starts out as a twitter conversation. There must be a pattern there. So, today, I’m going to address the bigger issues around the question I first asked, which started off the conversation, seems inefficient: emulating a DOM (built up w/ server-side JS)…which then [...]

This past week, I had a fantastic time travelling over to Warsaw, Poland for Front Trends 2010 conference. I was very honored to be invited to speak, and I gave the most recent incarnation of my talk on middle-end UI architecture, Rise of the Middle End (slides). Overall, the reaction in discussions over beer, feedback/ratings, [...]

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” [...]