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The latest news, articles and code focused on Sencha and related web technologies.

Sencha Insights

Issue #20

December 11th, 2013

A lot of great Sencha related articles in this week's issue - thanks to all the authors!

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Sencha Official

Webinar: Re-skinning Your Apps Just Got Easier with Sencha Architect 3

Lee Boonstra will show you how to customise your applications with Sencha Architect 3 and how to export templates for use on Sencha Market. This 1 hour webinar will be extremely helpful to those looking to re-style their apps.

Building a User Extension and Integrating It Into Sencha Architect 3 (Part 1)

Aaron Conran starts a multi-part blog series describing how to build and integrate User Extensions with Sencha Architect.


 

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Sencha

Building Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch and Windows Azure | aKa Web Design

Arthur Kay recently presented a new project to allow easy integration between Sencha projects and Microsoft Azure. His presentation introduces this project (Ext.azure.Azure) and shows how it can be used to quickly integrate Azure with your Sencha Touch and Ext JS apps.

Using Webfont icons in Sencha Touch

Sencha Touch now uses icon fonts for all of its icons which can cause some problems if you aren't used to dealing with them. This article runs down an approach to create your own icon font and how it can be integrated with your Sencha Touch project.

Webinar: Building Fluid Enterprise Applications with Ext JS

If you're quick this, webinar will run today at 1pm and will cover how to build fluid enterprise applications with Ext JS.

Getting started with the Siesta event recorder

Bryntum's Siesta testing framework just got better with the introduction of the Event Recorder to allow tests to be created even more easily. Mats introduces the feature and how it works in this blog post.

Conditional Compilation in Sencha/ExtJS

Oleg Yaroshevych shows us how to perform conditional compilation in our Ext JS projects using Sencha Cmd and special comment structures. A very useful read on a little known feature of the product.

JavaScript

First Moments with Grunt

Grunt.js is a very popular tool for automating build steps in your projects. This screencast takes you through the initial setup of Grunt and shows you how to get things up and running.

Why You Should Use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Continuous Integration and Deployment are very important parts of your project's build process and help to make everything run smoothly. This article introduces the topics and looks at ways that you can introduce these two things to your own workflow.

Improving Code Quality with JSHint

Improving the quality of your JavaScript should always be a goal of developers so utilising tools like JSHint to point out any problems with your code is important. This article introduces JSHint and shows how we can integrate it with our workflow.

JsonP Explanation

JsonP is a method for transporting data from client to a server across domains. Mitchell Simoens explains how it works and how to use it both from an Ext JS and a server side perspective.

JavaScript Performance Analysis: Sampling, Tracing, and Timing

Ariya Hidayat introduces various ways for identifying slow code and analysing how it could be improved.

HTML5

Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools - Secrets

A great resource full of tips for getting the most out of your web developer tools.

Scaling SVG elements

This CodePen pen demonstrates the use of various attributes for scaling SVG elements.

Quiz

Which of the following method calls will return the version of Ext JS being used in the current project?

1. Ext.getCurrentVersion();
2. Ext.getVersionNumber();
3. Ext.getVersion()
4. Ext.framework.getVersion();
 

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