• Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of

  By Neil McAllister | 16 May, 2012 20:12

  Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as "a massive upgrade to Ext Designer," the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product's new focus. Instead of a tool for building Web UIs, Sencha says the new version is suitable for creating complete Web applications, both for UI designers and back-end developers. That's true up to a point.

• Review: AppMobi XDK brings more style than substance to iPhone, Android development

  By James R. Borck | 11 May, 2012 20:15

  Despite the gold-rush atmosphere around mobile application development, you won't find many newbie-friendly tools aligned to help nonprogrammers mine for application riches. Even if the target platforms often seem like toys, most of the development kits are still developer-minded and code-centric, and they can present formidable hurdles to the uninitiated.

• Eclipse readies browser-based IDE

  By Paul Krill | 26 March, 2012 21:12

  The Eclipse Foundation for open source development tools is eyeing July as the release date for the 1.0 version of its Orion browser-based IDE for building Web applications, which will be discussed at this week's EclipseCon 2012 conference in Reston, Va.

• Node.js tools: Server-side JavaScript comes of age

  By Peter Wayner | 22 February, 2012 22:16

  The story of Node.js reads like it came from a Hollywood script assembly line: Some kids are monkeying around with scrap they picked up around the Internet and find a new way to snap it together. The next thing you know, they're lapping the pack at the racetrack and coasting to the winner's circle.

• The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server

  By Paul Krill | 07 February, 2012 22:11

  Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain about JavaScript's appropriateness on servers and developers' readiness to use it.

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