At the beginning of a new web application project you’re probably going to search around for the latest tools and trends to see what might make sense to use in your new app. I find myself in 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...