Architecture
There has been much discussion in the JavaScript community about JavaScript loaders, whether they are needed, what they do and whether it should be a function of the browser. I figured while there is so much buzz around the topic, it’s a good time to put in my own thoughts. What is a script loader? … Read more
I’m thinking about putting my series on application architecture in EXT and Sencha on hold for now because the Sencha team has announced their plans for EXT 4.0 which looks like it will include a very nice MVC framework built in. My plan is to restart this series when the new version of EXT comes … Read more
This post is directly related to my previous post on MVC and EXTJS. If you haven’t read it yet, I’d suggest that you take a look at it before diving into this one. For the purpose of demonstration, we’ll be building a simple application that displays photos from various APIs. The first thing you’ll need is … Read more
If you haven’t seen any of the rich interfaces that have been built with EXT JS and Sencha Touch on web applications, Adobe Air applications or native smart phone apps, you will. The Sencha family gives us everything we need to build large applications, but it doesn’t limit us on how we can write them. … 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