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WinJS - Namespaces

In my last post I explained a little about scope in JavaScript and why you should (and the default templates do) wrap each of your files in a self executing function.

One note about my code snippets. For simplicity I will be concatenating what would in a real application be multiple .js files into a single code snippet. I’ll use comments to show you where the files break.

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Windows 8, WinRT and WinJS - Scope

This week at Code52 we are taking on our first Windows 8 app. Just to make it interesting we are doing it using the HTML / JS stack instead of C# / XAML.

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Launching a Metro.css + Node.js site on AppHarbor

Last week I contributed a tiny piece of code to the Code52 Metro.css project. My contribution was a node script that creates a boilerplate Node.js website for you using the Metro.css styles, Express and wires up the LESS compilation.

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