JavaScript is changing. Actually, I'm not sure how much of that is true; the underlying language hasn't changed too much over the years. But, even if the language itself isn't changing, everything ...

So, I've seen stuff like Backbone touted as a new way to write web code, pushing the model and the controller out into JS, and it intrigues me, but I don't really understand it. it seems like this ...

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Airbnb today announced that it is open sourcing Rendr, its library for running Backbone.js apps seamlessly on both the client and the server. After launching its Chronos cron replacement a few weeks ...

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime, built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, that’s suitable for implementing both desktop and server apps. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes ...

Peter looks at Knockout, one of the MVC environments for writing client-side JavaScript, and wonders if we're on the wrong path. The typical interweaving of code and presentation logic in JavaScript ...

The defining characteristic of a really good programmer is laziness. That doesn’t mean stupid or ignorant, though. The really good lazy programmer doesn’t write (then need to debug and test) 100 lines ...