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JavaScript Libraries are Not Your Front-End Architecture This is not going to be a post about architecture but more about MHO. Lately, I’m asked to evaluate the architecture of small to big front-end solutions. There is big buzz around front-end development and it drives a lot of companies to build client-side solutions without considering how to build them. One of the misunderstandings I’m facing a lot is calling the existence of JavaScript libraries in the solution a solution architecture. Sorry...
My Speaking Engagements Until End of 2012 If you want to meet me in person and talk about development/technology or any thing else, you can catch me in the following speaking engagements I have until the end of 2012. So here it goes: DevConnections Between October 29 and November 1, I’ll attend DevConnections conference which will take place at the Bellagio hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA. During the conference I’ll have two sessions: Using Communication and Messaging APIs in HTML5 Applications HTML5 defines...
Wrapping up the VSLive Redmond Week A few days ago I had the opportunity to deliver two sessions in the VSLive Redmond conference. In the conference I delivered two different sessions: Working with Client-Side HTML5 Storages – slide deck and demos are available to download from this link . Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework – slide deck and demos are available to download from this link . I want to thank all of the attendees in both of the sessions. I had the opportunity to meet...
Hard Interview Questions? Last week I’ve interviewed a few candidates for a web developer position. Most of the candidates’ resumes indicated that they know JavaScript and jQuery and worked as web developers for at least 3 years. During the interview I wrote a piece of HTML on a whiteboard. This is the HTML: < body > < div id ="div1" > < img src ="pic.png" /> < ul > < li > Hello </ li > < li > World </ li > </ ul > < input...
New Speaking Engagement – DevConnections Lately, I have been chosen to speak at the DevConnections conference . The conference will take place between October 29 and November 1 at the Bellagio hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA. I’ll have two sessions in the HTML5 Connections : Using Communication and Messaging APIs in HTML5 Applications HTML5 defines new standards for communication and messaging between the browser and the server. In this session we will deep dive into HTML5 messaging APIs such as postMessage...
The story Begins Lately, I’ve decided to write my own JavaScript library for educational and experimental purposes. The idea came to me while I was creating a demo to a session that I will deliver in the near future. In the session, I wanted to show how to use different JavaScript storage types and didn’t wanted to change my code every time for every storage type. So I’ve created a library to handle client-side data storages in simple and consistent way. The library is called story.js and its first...
Finding Good Client Web Developers is Hard Today I had a meeting at a customer. One of the things that we talked about was the difficulty in finding good web developers. To be more accurate, the difficulty in finding good client web developers! Since I have lots of experience in interviewing candidates, I really understand that guy's problem. He published his company’s job requirements and seek for an experienced client web developer and all the candidates that he interviewed so far didn’t know...
Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr In the past I wrote a post about using feature detection instead of browser detection when writing web applications/sites. There are frameworks like jQuery that do that for you and all you have to do is to use them. There are other frameworks like Modernizr that are specializing in testing the current browser you use in order to detect whether it supports upcoming features such as HTML5 or CSS3 . What is Modernizr? Taken from Modernizr site: “ Modernizr is...