Nolan Wright is co-founder and CTO of Appcelerator, leading the company's product and services organizations. Prior to starting Appcelerator, he led engineering and product management at Vocalocity. He has also held several senior technology, product management and consulting positions with Accenture, Netscape Communications and Vertical One. Wright is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he earned his BEEE in Electrical Engineering. For more information, please visit http://www.appcelerator.org.
Traditional Web development frameworks tightly couple the user interface (UI) and the server. This characteristic has two significant implications: prototyping is difficult and development is server-focused. The emergence and widespread adoption of AJAX has triggered a foundational cha...Aug. 4, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,256
The world of web development is moving away from MVC-based web architectures and towards a client/server model that is probably best described as RIA + SOA, where RIA represents the rich user interface and SOA represents the services that it consumes. There has been a lot of buzz aroun...
