WebGL: 3D Graphics in the Web Browser
WebGL is a new technology being introduced to modern web browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox. WebGL enables a web browser to render interactive
Choosing a web framework to build a website: Ruby on Rails, Python Django, or Node.js?
Introduction
The Internet enables people to build digital properties that transcend national boundaries. The earliest Internet websites in the 1990s were simple static web pages, limited by the technology of that
Javascript’s jQuery 1.9 and 2: ending support for old Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8
On November 13, 2012, the developers at Yeti attended the Web Performance SF meetup in San Francisco. This meetup briefly introduced jQuery 1.9 and 2, a core library to building any web application.
Optimizing JavaScript for runtime speed (Yetihq.com)
[Published on Yetihq.com]
This summer Brandon Jones of Motorola Mobility presented a talk about efficient JavaScript vector math [1]. The concepts presented in this JavaScript meetup talk are beneficial
Learning JavaScript: web application architecture
I’ve been talking about front end, middle tier, and back end in my previous posts. Here’s a diagram to show how the components interact with each other. Additionally, there is an example
Learning JavaScript: part II
This post continues from the last post in learning JavaScript for building web applications. I assume you now have a working knowledge of the JavaScript language. We apply our knowledge of JavaScript
Learning JavaScript: part I
Recently I spoke with several individuals wanting to build web applications. First I describe what a web application is, describe the front tier of a web application, and focus on JavaScript’s role
Designing a REST API
I am writing about how to design a REST API. I am basing my guidance from Stormpath’s presentation on July 10th, 2012. A REST API is a type of application programming interface (API) that
Web technologies stack
| server side scripting | Asynchronous server | web framework | use cases | code in web browser | database | client side scripting | |
| Python | rpy | Twisted | Django | server, numerical, scripts,middle | |||
| PHP | php | middle | MySQL | ||||
| JavaScript | node.js | Connect/Express | client, server, Flash | MVC: backbone,DOM: jQuery,helper: underscore | MongoDB | Browser JavaScript | |
| Ruby | erb | EventMachine | Rails | server, middle | sqlite3, Postgres | ||
| NET | aspx | Windows server, middle | Silverlight | MS SQL Server | |||
| Java | jsp | Play 2.0 | server, client, middle | Java applets |
Firefox OS / Boot to Gecko: a phone OS written in a web browser
[Update] Announced July 2nd, Boot to Gecko is now Firefox OS.
On June 26th, 2012 I attended the HTML 5 meetup in Microsoft’s local sale office. This HTML 5 meetup invited Rob Hawkes and Chris Heilman