Archive for February, 2010

A first look at JavaScript Frameworks

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

In our discussion today about Javascript frameworks we finally came to a conclusion, of sort, regarding when to use frameworks. In back office applications we can use whatever framework we want. It is used by a small number of people and we have total control over possible dependencies and namespace ...

No Scrum, No More

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

After listening to Olve Maudal at the Lean Meetup in Oslo yesterday, and after reading some of his tweets today (@olvemaudal) I realized that we never informed our readers that we are not doing Scrum anymore. I don't think we have for 9 months or more. We ...

JavaScript: Tools, Coding Standard and Guidelines

Monday, February 8th, 2010

We're currently devoting an hour each Monday to collectively work our way through JavaScript. Our aim is to point to the key areas of interest and improvement, and to dig into each area one by one. We are maintaining a TOC for our JS-discussions here. Development Tools Firebug is the most important development ...

Enterprise JavaScript Coding

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Not many years ago, people would giggle and think of enterprise and JavaScript as an oxymoron. Not so much anymore. If you want to be a serious actor even in (or maybe especially in) the enterprise software market, you have to take JavaScript seriously. Large parts of your product's business ...