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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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 ...

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Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs) has lately become a hot topic in the Java community. In addition to new technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), MacroMedia Flex, and ...

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 ...