Backbone.js provides a very flexible framework for building JavaScript applications that interact with web services. Models and Collections serve to represent easily represent data entities, with operations to create, read, update, and delete. This set of operations – summarized as ‘CRUD’ – is very common to see in web applications. How, though, do you interact […]
At Veriday, we have been using Backbone.js to build rich web applications for a few years now. During this period we developed different patterns to make us more efficient building apps using Backbone.js as well as to enforce certain user experience standards across our applications. In this post, we will talk about our “BaseModel” and […]
In part 1 of this series, we described how Veriday builds rich Liferay portlets using Backbone.js. If you missed the first part or are unsure how to integrate Backbone.js into your Liferay then it will be helpful to read Part 1 first.The approach we describe in part 2 allows your team to be highly efficient […]
Collaboration is key for any business or operation. In order to run a business in today’s economy, there is a need for collaborative technology. Collaborative technology is the foundation for aligning business goals with technology, in order to facilitate effective communication and improve productivity. SharePoint is a collaboration suite used by many professional services and […]
As one of Liferay’s proud Canadian partners in portal technology, we were thrilled to see Liferay, provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class, open source portal, announced that it had been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, placed […]
In the world of web applications, there is a clear divide between the front-end (client) and the back-end (server); In the last several years, frameworks have emerged for both areas that offer substantial time savings in development and design. Libraries like jQuery, Backbone.js, and Underscore.js make life in the front-end much easier, and technologies like […]
Monitoring the traffic to your website is a critical component to digital marketing success. Understanding the data can help you make adjustments and also help you determine whether the adjustments and changes you are making to your website are working. Even if you are not the one managing your website, you should still understand the […]
It’s 2014 and your portal needs to get RICH! It’s no longer enough to have a portal that just works and presents information to your end users from multiple different sources. Today, it’s just as important to have a rich and easy to use interface. The tooling available for the front-end today is the best […]
Today, Liferay Inc., a leading open source portal software company announced the release of a Mobile SDK that will ship with Liferay Enterprise Edition 6.2. You can read about all the technical benefits here, but, so what does this mean from a business standpoint? Mobile application development isn’t a new concept and for the most […]
