Simon Willison’s Weblog

Backbone.js. As should be expected for a DocumentCloud project, Backbone is a concise, elegant and educational take on the JavaScript MVC pattern. Depends on Underscore.js and plays well with jQuery.

# 13th October 2010, 5:23 pm / documentcloud, javascript, jquery, mvc, underscore, backbone, recovered

.aspx considered harmful. Jon Udell: “I guess I’m extra-sensitive to the .aspx thing now that I work for Microsoft, because I know that to folks outside the Microsoft ecosystem it screams: We don’t get the web.”—he goes on to mention that smart URL rewriting is thankfully built in to the upcoming ASP.NET MVC framework.

# 17th January 2008, 6:01 pm / aspnet, aspx, jon-udell, microsoft, mvc, urls

ASP.NET MVC Framework. This looks pretty good. It includes clean URL support that’s very similar to how Django does things (with a nice alternative syntax for developers who don’t like regular expressions).

# 22nd October 2007, 1:45 pm / aspnet, django, microsoft, mvc, scott-guthrie, urls

SproutCore (via) MVC JavaScript framework used to build the new .Mac Web Gallery application.

# 7th August 2007, 11:35 pm / ajax, apple, bill-humphries, dotmac, javascript, mvc