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Jul 19

Now Supporting all Major Toolkits!

By Dylan Schiemann on July 19, 2012 8:20 am

We have been providing JavaScript and Dojo support to freelancers, start-ups and Fortune 500 companies for nearly a decade. As we intently watch enterprise organizations everywhere begin to roll out AMD (read about why AMD matters) and the associated code improvements, we are thrilled with the industry’s direction toward toolkit interoperability! Why? Because! Our masterful engineering team, consisting of influential members of various open source communities, positions SitePen perfectly to offer full-on, front-end web development support to the world!

Getting right to the point, (The Official Point!), we are pleased to announce the expansion of SitePen Support to officially include more than fifteen popular open-source JavaScript toolkits!

Now supporting the following JavaScript toolkits:

  • Dojo
  • Persevere packages
  • dgrid
  • Curl.js
  • CometD
  • Twine
  • jQuery
  • Backbone
  • underscore
  • RequireJS
  • PhoneGap/Cordova
  • MooTools
  • jQueryUI
  • Wire
  • Socket.IO
  • Express

In addition to toolkits, we will continue to support your custom JavaScript source code, as well as key underlying technologies and formats, including JSON, HTML5, WebSockets, SVG/Canvas, Mobile Web, Server-Side JavaScript, AMD, Node.js and many more.

Our expertise with Dojo and advanced JavaScript is relevant for a wide-range of desktop and mobile web application projects and our approach to SitePen Support has always been flexible with the priority being to improve our customers’ web apps. We strive to support our customers in every way possible and we continue to be Dojo experts. In addition, we’re now committed to providing your organization with the front-end development expertise that will optimize your application regardless of which toolkits and technologies your company is comfortable using. You have our word!

Learn More About SitePen Support or Contact Us to get started today!

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Nov 4

RequireJS/AMD Module Forms

By Kris Zyp on November 4, 2010 12:02 am

The CommonJS AMD proposal defines an elegant, simple API for declaring modules that can be used with synchronous or asynchronous script-tag based loading in the browser. RequireJS already implements this API, and Dojo will soon have full support as well. The API for defining modules is as simple as:

define(, , );

This simple API can be used in a variety of different ways for different situations.

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Sep 21

Patr: Promise-based Asynchronous Test Runner

By Kris Zyp on September 21, 2010 12:01 am
This entry is part 5 of 12 in the series Server-Side JavaScript, Pintura, and Persevere 2.0

Patr (Promise-based Asynchronous Test Runner) is a simple lightweight cross-platform test runner for promised-based applications. Patr executes tests by simply executing functions of an object and is intended to be used in combination with the “assert” module (which is available on NodeJS and Narwhal), so tests can be as simple as:

var assert = require("assert");
tests = {
  testSomething: function(){
    assert.eq(3, 3);
  }
}
require("patr/runner").run(tests);
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Sep 20

Promised-IO

By Kris Zyp on September 20, 2010 12:24 am
This entry is part 4 of 12 in the series Server-Side JavaScript, Pintura, and Persevere 2.0

Promises are a well-established mechanism for modeling future or asynchronous actions. Promises allow asynchronicity while maintaining the core programming principles of composability and encapsulation. Writing asynchronous code in JavaScript can often be a confusing exercise due to the extensive need for callbacks, but promises help to define composable units of asynchronicity to encapsulate actions and reliably separate caller and callee’s concerns.

Promised-IO

Promised-IO utilizes promises as an abstraction for I/O operations on top of Node, Narwhal/Rhino, and the browser (where possible). This serves two purposes. First, this package provides the benefits of promise usage: clean separation of concerns and proper encapsulation of eventual values. Second, Promised-IO provides a consistent normalized interface for I/O that will work on multiple platforms without sacrificing any of the advantages of asynchronous I/O, making it easy to build modules that can be used by developers on many platforms.

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Jul 19

Real-time Comet Applications on Node with Tunguska

By Kris Zyp on July 19, 2010 4:34 am
This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Server-Side JavaScript, Pintura, and Persevere 2.0

Node is a server-side JavaScript platform that is known for being well suited for Comet-style applications that utilize long-lived connections to allow applications to send messages from the server to the browser asynchronously. In fact, the beginning of the front page of nodejs.org starts out with an example of a web application that delays for a couple seconds before sending a response without any type of blocking; the code is asynchronous and efficient.

However, building a real-life real-time application involves more than just a platform that gives you asynchronous communication, there are a number of other important techniques to understand. We will look at these techniques and introduce project Tunguska that provides some helpful tools to assist in building applications. While a number of Comet projects out there attempt to provide a black box solution to Comet, Tunguska recognizes that most real-time applications involve deep integration into the application and its security, messaging, and data structures. Consequently Tunguska is a set of tools for building real-time applications rather than a closed black box that can’t easily be integrated with. Let’s look at some of these tools.

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