The What and Why of Javascript Frameworks

The What and Why of Javascript Frameworks

  As has been previously discussed, JavaScript has the propensity to be very untidy if you let it be. This isn’t a problem unique to JavaScript, of course – many other languages suffer from a lack of native organization, especially for specific tasks....

2014 Review: Day 3

As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time.      Steve Huey took us on a quick tour of a key/value store for iOS that’s built on top of the ubiquitous...

Barista: a New Embedded Web Server for Objective-C

I came across a new and interesting open source embeddable web server written in Objective-C for Mac and iOS apps called Barista. It’s inspired by the Express web application framework for Node.js and allows you to compose a processing pipeline by connecting...
The Javascript Toolbox

The Javascript Toolbox

Developers using JavaScript and HTML to build rich web apps are creating a plethora of tools to compartmentalize the common and organizational aspects of coding.  This burst of open source energy has led to new categories of libraries like the MV* frameworks, and...