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So, I recently was working on a project using Sencha Touch and Phonegap to create an iPhone App and everything worked perfectly when I was using the emulator for the iPhone 3, but when I emulated it for the iPhone 4, it wouldn’t load anything at all. The solution? Apparently, the DOM was still rendering … Read more
When I started writing JavaScript (and code in general, for that matter), one of toughest things for me to wrap my head around was what variables and functions I could access from where. For example, I would try things like this: The previous code would fail because the variable hadn’t been set yet when it … Read more
If you’re like me, you are constantly looking for better ways to architect your JavaScript applications to be scalable and modular. One of the keys to writing an application that fits the bill is to use reusable components that, instead of calling other functions or components directly, broadcast events that multiple components may be listening … Read more
There are literally tons of JavaScript frameworks out there to ease the pain of website and application development. Obviously, the most popular one out there right now is jQuery, but that is not to say that there are not other libraries out there. So the question becomes, should developers use libraries or is it just a … Read more
Ajax is awesome for things like rich internet applications that don’t require SEO because of their internal nature, or for on-page events like form validation and submitting, but from an SEO standpoint, adding content to the DOM is illegible. But you still want the increased usability of not having to reload the page every time … Read more
Nearly a year ago I was working for a company in the financial services industry that had need for a scalable, secure, AJAX application. It was extremely large in scale and scope and it quickly became clear that I was going to have to have some sort of organizational structure to build the application upon. … Read more
As the web has grown, the Javascript programming language has grown with it to become rich and robust. Whereas websites used to have only a couple of lines of Javascript code used in them, Javascript has evolved to a point where it often does a large part of the heavy lifting in Internet Application development. … Read more
SEO has been a hot topic especially in the last few years as the number of websites on the Internet has increased and being easily found on most search engines has been increasingly difficult. Everyone who has a website is looking for ways to make their site more accessible to Google and other modern search … Read more
A couple of years ago, if you had asked me what my take on design patterns for internet applications was, I would have probably given you a blank, questioning stare. You see, as sad as it is, proper design and architectural patterns aren’t exactly the norm in the web development world. Today, I’m going to … Read more
Killing IE6 Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6 nearly eight years ago in August of 2001. Since then, they have released two new versions of their web browser, IE7 and IE8 and have officially stopped supporting the outdated cousin, IE6. So why is it that most web developers are still supporting a browser that even Microsoft … Read more