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Hi, my name is Marco. Working as a Senior Software Architect at Philips. I'm an Opensource Maintainer and Contributor. If you like my work, consider to sponsor my work.

I wrote my first blog March 2011. Mostly I'm writing on software development. In total I wrote 75 articles in 7 categories. Use search below to filter by title or click a category or tag to filter by tag or category.

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Responsive Adaptive Progressive impressive webpages

Marco Franssen

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In the last couple of years web applications technologies and frameworks went through a fast paced transformation and evolution. For all these evolutions there was coined a marketing term which (by coincidence) all end on …ive. So lets coin another one. In this article I'm going to explain you the basic concepts of all these principles which combined allow you to build an impressive web application. Responsive Web Design It started all back in (from top of my head) late 2010, with the idea of…

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Recap my online year 2012

Marco Franssen

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The year 2012 was for me a year that went way to fast. In the year 2012 I learned a lot new stuff, wrote several blog posts and read lots of blog posts and articles. First of all I want you to give a list of all blog posts I wrote this year. You can find the complete list here http://marcofranssen.nl/2012/ and here http://marcofranssen.nl/2012/page/2/. JavaScript http://marcofranssen.nl/writing-modular-javascript-without-polluting-the-global-namespace/ http://marcofranssen.nl/knockout-js-mapp…

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Knockout that cascading dropdown

Marco Franssen

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In this article I will explain how you can make cascading dropdowns with Knockout.js. Knockout.js is a JavaScript library which provides you some stuff to implement the MVVM pattern.  Knockout provides you the following stuff: Declarative bindings: (Easily associate DOM elements with model data using a concise, readable syntax); Automatic UI Refresh: (When your data model's state changes, your UI updates automatically) Dependency tracking: (Implicitly set up chains of relationships between mo…