javascript

JavaScript's Odd Parts – Configurable Functions as a DSL

As some of you may be moving from Java to JavaScript, you’ll find there are a number of ways to program – using objects, functions, or a hybrid approach. A common style of API you’ll see in the wild lends itself to expressive object definitions, while at the same time being easy to use to … Read More

JavaScript's Modern Tools – Grunt – Ant for the Browser?

In our prior JavaScript build tools posts, we already discussed bower and npm, two tools that help you download and install dependencies. But what about tools to build your application, run tests, distribute minified versions and run quality checks? Enter Grunt.

Javascript's Modern Web Tools – Introduction

If you’re used to writing jQuery scripts and trying them from your browser, you’ll probably be surprised to know that over the past few years, tools have cropped up to make the old browser language more enterpris-ey. This multi-part tutorial series shows you how the world of Javascript tooling has invaded and provided ways to handle dependency management, build processing, and application assembly in a whole new way.

Technologies We're Watching in 2013

From cloud computing to Javascript, from micro services to repeatable environments, from Android and HTML5 to Big Data and concurrent programming, Chariot’s engineers are keeping watch.

Using jQueryMobile and Backbone.js for handling forms

Introduction In this post, I continue the development of my basic “exercise app” that I started (and enhanced) in these posts: Intro to Backbone with jQuery Mobile Sorting Collections with Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile From a List to a Details View using jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js Let’s add the ability to create and edit exercise … Read More