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Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code
JavaScript has come a long way since the mid-90s when I first started working with it in Netscape 3 and Internet Explorer 3. Back in the day I thought JavaScript was a painful to use but over the years I’ve learned to love it and appreciate what it offers as a language. JavaScript is quite flexible and can perform a wide variety of tasks on both the client-side and server-side. In fact, I used to prefer it to VBScript on the server-side when writing classic ASP applications and today we have server-side frameworks such as Node.js that are JavaScript based. With the rise of HTML5 and new features such as the Canvas API and SVG JavaScript is more important than ever when building applications. As applications use more JavaScript it’s important that the code is structured in a way that’s easy work with and maintain.
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The Tablet Show - “Resist the Drama”
I had an opportunity to talk with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (the .NET Rocks guys) on their new show called The Tablet Show. It’s always fun talking with them since there’s never a boring moment or lull in the conversation. In this episode we talk about the new WinRT framework used to build Metro apps in Windows 8, the future of Silverlight, the drama some developers seem to love, and a bunch of other topics related to development including why Microsoft is moving toward the Start Screen that you see in Windows 8. Give the show a listen by clicking the image below.
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New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke
This is the fourth post in a series covering new line of business features in Silverlight 5.
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Call for Abstracts for Spring 2012 ClientDev Connections Conference
John Papa and I just sent out a call for abstracts for the upcoming Spring 2012 DevConnections conference to be held in Las Vegas, NV. If you’re interested in presenting on client-side development topics such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery (or another JavaScript library), Silverlight 5, Windows 8 Metro style app development, or other related topics please submit session ideas. If you know someone else who may be interested, please forward the information. Here’s the official announcement that was sent out.
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New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5–Debugging Bindings in XAML
This is the third post in a series covering new line of business features in Silverlight 5.
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New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5–Ancestor RelativeSource Binding
This is the second post in a series covering new line of business features in Silverlight 5.
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New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Implicit Data Templates
Silverlight 5 has a a lot of new features that are attractive to marketing and media application developers as well as Line of Business (LOB) developers. My company focuses on building LOB applications for customers so some of the new features related to that area of development really stood out to me. Over the next few weeks I’ll blog about a few of my personal favorites including: