Today, I spent some time hooking up EventBoard to EventPoint, and the solution turned out to be so compact I felt a blog coming on…

EventPoint has a nice REST API that can return JSON or XML. I wanted JSON. I had a demo conference set up, and also an API Key. First, I set about exploring the API, using the Chrome HTTP Dev Client, which is my new best friend. It is kind of like Fiddler in a browser, and allows you do do GET, PUT, POST etc, set HTTP headers, see the return values in JSON, ...

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 Creating a JavaScript application on top of ASP.NET MVC is becoming more common these days. Rightfully so, especially with the new Web API addition to MVC 4. The clear separation between client-side and server-side is an elegant architecture indeed!

Retrieving collections and objects from MVC is simply a matter of calling the REST URL via AJAX. The result will give you ...

The Sencha Designer 2 Beta is a full-on IDE for MVC based JavaScript applications built over Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch frameworks. That's a lot of acronyms for one sentence, so allow me to recap. Sencha Ext JS is a framework for building rich JavaScript applications complete with all the goodies we've come to expect like data grids, trees, charts, windows, tabs and so on. Sencha Touch does the same thing for mobile applications.

In this blog, we'll take a look at the environment and build a simple data-bound grid.

Sencha Designer 2 brings a visual designer with a ...