Category Archives: front end architecture

The Curse of JavaScript: Avoid the powertools until you understand the drill bits.

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Nael El Shawwa

If I were a gambling man I would bet that everybody that has or is developing using JavaScript (today that is probably all if not most web developers) has started out one day by copying and pasting some script from … Continue reading →

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What can ant colonies teach front-end architects?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Nael El Shawwa

I just read a great article on Embracing Complexity by the Harvard Business Review and I got a crazy idea about using the same “ant colony” metaphor to describe UIs design and architecture. There is a lot to learn from an ant … Continue reading →

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Dojo templates & Google Maps InfoWindow

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Nael El Shawwa

I have been building mashups using Google Maps since 2007 and one problem I had is passing in the content for these bubbles that show up when you click on a marker i.e. the InfoWindow. One big annoyance with it, … Continue reading →

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Dojo How To: Publish / Subscribe

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Nael El Shawwa

I haven’t been using Dojo for a very long time, just over a year now, but its time I blog about all the little great features I have learned. One of the features I like the most in Dojo is … Continue reading →

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