Dino Esposito Posting Form Content via JavaScript Web-based applications run smoother if instead of using the traditional form method, they use JavaScript to post data to the server and to update the... 16 March 2016 12 min read
Jon Smith Introduction to Bower, Grunt, and Gulp in Visual Studio Developers are now spending much more time writing and debugging JavaScript, CSS, HTML templates etc. Microsoft have responded by adding better tools for front-end development... 23 February 2016 22 min read
Dino Esposito Script Loading between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 Web pages increasingly suffer from JavaScript-library bloat. Because it is difficult to avoid the awkward wait while these libraries load, there are some techniques for... 23 December 2015 12 min read
Dino Esposito Tracking Online Users Sometimes, the requirements for a web application include a list of users that are currently logged-in. It would seem, at first glance, to be pretty... 10 June 2015 11 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET SignalR: Old-fashioned Polling, Just Done Better A website often needs to update a page as the underlying data changes. You can, of course, just poll the server every few seconds on... 18 May 2015 12 min read
Dino Esposito RWD, Mobile-first, JavaScript and Performance The easiest way to make a responsive web application perform well is to minimize requests and the amount of data that is downloaded. The most... 28 February 2015 11 min read
Dino Esposito Quick and Dirty Web Data-Binding Sometimes, the sheer byzantine complexity of the typical JavaScript frameworks underlying a typical web application can give you pause for thought. If all you need... 04 February 2015 12 min read
Dino Esposito The JavaScript Overload and Micro Frameworks You can achieve a lot with HTML5 and CSS, but only if you employ JavaScript libraries as well. It used to be possible to restrict... 21 November 2014 11 min read
Konrad Lukasik The JavaScript Landscape in Broad Brushstrokes JavaScript has come a long way from its humble origins as a simple interpreted object-oriented language for browser-side scripting of web pages. It's many inadequacies,... 30 July 2014 11 min read
Edward Charbeneau Functionally Similar – Comparing Underscore.js to LINQ Underscore.JS is a useful JavaScript library for anyone familiar with the LINQ syntax. It is not a direct LINQ port like Rx or linq.js, but... 12 August 2013 12 min read
Nick Harrison Client-Side Markup with JQuery Cloning and Templates Almost certainly, any HTML-based application is going to need to create markup on the client-side, using JavaScript. The language isn't particularly geared for the task,... 27 November 2012 12 min read
Nick Harrison jQuery Fast Food Cook Book Anyone in IT should be aware of jQuery. This free, open-source JavaScript library has become amost essential to anyone creating a web-based application. Nick Harrison... 11 July 2012 17 min read
Nick Harrison jQuery Goodness in a DotNet World jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. It shields the programmer from the idiosyncrasies in the way that each browser implements the language:... 12 August 2010 12 min read
Matteo Slaviero AJAX basics with jQuery in ASP.NET ASP.NET now has support for the jQuery JavaScript library. Although ASP.NET integrated AJAX technology by introducing the is the UpdatePanel server control, jQuery offers an... 19 May 2010 20 min read
Richard Morris Doug Crockford: Geek of the Week Doug Crockford is the man behind JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He is a well-known critic of XML and guides the development of Javascript on the... 17 March 2010 9 min read
Daniel Penrod Ext Framework, jQuery and ASP.NET If you are developing a browser-based application, or using Adobe AIR, then jQuery and Ext JS are prime choices for your framework. Of course you... 04 December 2008 10 min read