Robert Lysik's List: Web Application Development

Tutorial on using the ajax.net framework for building a task system web application.

"Playing with some of the cutting edge stuff to develop a live drawing white board on a web page where multiple people can collaborate and each person has the same view at the same time without any page refresh."

"This class will introduce you to Web technologies and give you experience creating Web applications. In the process you will learn about markup languages, scripting languages, network protocols, interactive graphics, event-driven programming, and databases, and see how they all work together to deliver exciting applications. "

"ASP.NET MVC 3, with its glorious URL structures and ease of working with and controlling HTTP request/response data is primed to build REST type API services. But how does one accomplish that and what does the whole RESTful thing really mean?"

"You could think of DojoX (which stands for Dojo Extensions) as a sandbox, a place where modules can grow and evolve at whatever rate they need to. DojoX modules aren’t necessarily as mature as Dojo and Dijit Modules. And while there is a DojoX leader, as there is for Dojo and Dijit, each of the subprojects (as they’re called) are individually managed."

"Since I’m both an architect and a web product person, I thought it would be fun to design a building the way that web applications are."

"The Ruby Study Notes is a step-by-step tutorial to programming in Ruby and you can follow it page by page, reading the text and running the sample programs. There are no large applications here - just small, self-contained sample programs."

"The goal of this book is to be the best answer to the question, “If I want to learn web development with Ruby on Rails, where should I start?” By the time you finish Ruby on Rails Tutorial, you will have all the knowledge you need to develop and deploy your own custom web applications."

"what’s the best way to learn Rails? Here’s a lesson plan."

Playfic is a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction. Interactive fiction (aka "text adventures") is a genre of game that uses no graphics or sound, but instead, uses text to tell a story in an interactive world.

"A while ago, a group of very intelligent and experienced Front-end Developers got together and created a list of great Front-end focused job interview questions."

"Lately I've been thinking a lot about the impact of the move to a thick client architecture for web applications, and I'm becoming more and more certain that this means that Rails-style MVC frameworks on the server-side are going to end up being phased out in favour of leaner and meaner frameworks that better address the new needs of thick-client architecture."

"Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. "

PHP web application cloud hosting

"Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions."

"LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js and Rhino. "

"These two libraries share a lot of basics. Both of them are fantastic tools for designers who code, and they can also help developers work more efficiently and quickly. If you’re a fan of Ruby or HAML, then Sass might be right up your ally. For me, being a PHP and JavaScript geek, I tend to lean towards LESS for its ease of inclusion and access to JavaScript’s expressions and document attributes."