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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Single page apps are great solutions for data journalism. By offloading the complexity from backends and servers, journalists can build rich programs and graphics out of just Javascript, HTML and CSS.

I recently wrote a column on how to open a dialog box in an ASP.NET MVC application. In that column, I had the HTML for the dialog box dynamically generated at runtime from a Partial View and ...