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Web Components are the future of web development
Building applications by bolting together components is standard fare for developers; encapsulation and reusability have been key concepts donkeys years. So why does a practice that’s so ubiquitous across almost every aspect of software
Read More »Grunt – a build system for front-end professionals
In most programming language eco-systems, a comprehensive build system is taken for granted. Some are more convoluted than others: Java developers have long had to wrestle with the visual spaghetti of XML in order
Read More »Meteor on a low end VPS
Meteor on a low end VPS Meteor is a framework of Javascript tools for developing realtime applications. Meteor shares code between client and server, allowing synchronisation of both data and code. As a side-project
Read More »Using jQuery UI in SharePoint 2010
jQuery UI is a widget and interaction library built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. The jQuery UI site has a number of
Read More »Sencha releases mobile HTML5 cloud
The maker of the front-end Javascript frameworks Ext JS and Sencha Touch, Sencha, has made available its Sencha.io cloud platform for beta testers. Sencha.io provides mobile web application developers with a set of cloud
Read More »Quick Start Wakanda – Javascript for the entire stack
Wakanda is an open-source platform that provides a full Javascript stack, comprising of Wakanda Server, Wakanda Studio and the Wakanda Client Framework. Currently in a developer preview release – essentially an alpha version –
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