Category: Stuff we like

Repeated comments and blog posts about the "callback hell" problem in JavaScript on sites such as HN and Reddit have really baffled this JavaScript programmer. Callback hell is where you call an asynchronous function which provides the ...Read More

Starting this evening and stretching over the weekend is this year’s FinTech Startup Weekend in New York City, which brings together financial technologists with the goal of building consumer and enterprise financial apps with ...Read More

Today, I'd like to talk about EventHub, our in-browser publish/subscribe system. EventHub does a very similar thing to OpenAjax Hub, but for slightly different reasons. Whereas OpenAjax Hub is designed to allow mash-ups of co-operating components from different sites, EventHub ...Read More

Most enterprise-scale language environments such as Java or .net, provide features like single-class-per-file (with on-demand loading); isolation; privacy and namespacing of code; refactoring capabilities; UI paradigms, encouraging separation of concerns; unit and acceptance testing tools with integrated debugging, etc... JavaScript and ...Read More

Today is launch day for Windows 8 and the many laptop / tablet hybrids that will come along with it. The slightly in your face metro UI is a big gamble for MS but it certainly looks touch friendly so I ...Read More

Object-oriented is mostly about encapsulation, but it's also about interfaces and inheritance. However, years of experience have caused most programmers to realize that class inheritance is mostly a bad idea; it breaks encapsulation while increasing cognitive load by introducing cryptic indirection. ...Read More

Who Patrick Myles, Emin TatosianWhat BladeRunner: A Framework for Building Modular Enterprise-Scale HTML5 AppsWhere The Skills Matter eXchange, LondonWhen 23rd October 2012, 6:30pmCost FreeRegistration Please click here to register ...Read More

And just like that Velocity Europe 2012 comes to an end. And I am completely exhausted. By the end of day 1 my mind was 80% full. By mid way through the opening plenary on the second day it was 100%. ...Read More

Wow, so Day 2 of Velocity has just finished and I can't help but feel that I went to all the wrong talks. This is meant as a compliment, I can't believe the amount of talent going on at this conference ...Read More

 So the first day of Velocity London 2012 has drawn to an end. And what a day it was. Lots of cool talks, interesting people and plenty of food for thought. Slides ...Read More