Browsing articles from "September, 2010"
Sep
21
2010

Introduction to Custom Dojo Widgets

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Enterprise Web Applications are full of common UI elements and functionality that are ripe to be encapsulated into a reusable widget. Lucky for you, Dojo makes this process easy. The resulting code is cohesive and modular, just the way we like it.

Sep
9
2010

The Four Stages of JavaScript Grief

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The typical beginning of an Enterprise Developer’s JavaScript education is involuntary in nature. In many cases an engineer with a strong background in Java, or other strongly-typed languages, is informed that their next project requires JavaScript. Like all forced actions, this will be a bumpy road. So bumpy in fact, that the Enterprise Developer will go through a grieving process as they leave behind their beloved strongly-typed language and plunge into the duck-typed world of JavaScript. This process of grief has four distinct stages.