In the last two columns, I've been discussing my deepening understanding of JavaScript ("JavaScript for an ASP.NET Developer") and my appreciation of JavaScript's beauty as a language oriented around ...

In a previous column, I showed how to create a "Hello, World" application that integrated JavaScript functions and C# Blazor methods. However, my Blazor-world and JavaScript-world code didn't interact ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

In mid-November 2009, at a meeting of my research group in Chicago, I proudly unveiled the most recent beta of the software I'm writing for my PhD dissertation, a Web application (written in Ruby on ...

It's not news to find out that JavaScript has become the new crowd favorite for front-end development, but what is surprising is how quickly it is also catching on in the back end, powering many of ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...

Last month's column was an initial look at CouchDB, a non-relational, open-source database server, now sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. CouchDB uses many Web-related standards: data is ...