Maybe you saw that tweet: ”jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript addiction. In this, the final episode of our session, we’ll look at the last member of the Dojo trinity: DojoX. What’s DojoX? DojoX is a place where modules can grow and evolve at whatever rate they need to. But don’t get the idea that DojoX is a coding free-for-all. Hardly. You could think of...

Planning to start working on a new web application? In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to create an API-centric web application, and explain why this is essential in today’s multi-platform world. Introduction API? For those who are unfamiliar with the term, API is short for Application Programming Interface. According to Wikipedia: An application programming interface (API) is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. An API may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables. API Visualization Image courtesy of http://blog.zoho.com In simpler terms, an API refers to a set of functions...

In the last part of this series, we looked at the life-cycle methods, automatic methods and the custom methods that our widget requires or can make use of. In this part, we’re going to finish defining the widget’s class by adding the attribute change-handling methods that we attached in the bindUI() life-cycle method. Let’s get started right away! Attribute Change Handlers The attribute change-handling group of methods are called when some of our attributes change values. We’ll start by adding the method that is called when the showTitle attribute changes; add the following code directly after the _uiSetTitle() method: _afterShowTitleChange: function ()...

Web development is an industry that’s in a state of constant flux with technologies and jargon changing and mutating in an endless cycle. Not to mention the sheer deluge of information one has to process everyday. In this series, published monthly, we’ll seek to rectify this by bringing you all the important news, announcements, releases and interesting discussions within the web development industry in a concise package. Join me after the jump! News and Releases All of the important news in a single place: releases, announcements, companies bickering, security issues and all related hoopla. Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time I admit I saw...

Retracing the steps you’ve taken is a helpful way to understand how well you’ve executed your vision – whatever that might be. What could you have done better? What should have been avoided? Today, I’ll share what we’ve learned (and are still learning) while crafting Gradient. It’s an experience that has changed everything for us. Building a product, be it a native app, web app, or service, is always a challenging task. However, once we convinced ourselves to follow a few pieces of advice, we managed to ship something we believed in. And this is what I’d like...