If you are developing web applications that utilize Ajax (and most do today) and are using jQuery and/or Backbone.js, you should be building with mock Ajax JSON responses. You can view the code on Github: https://github.com/ibjhb/mockjaxExample or the …
I was just confirmed as a speaker on Day 2 of the Front End Design Conference. If you haven’t attended this conference previously, it is one of the best conferences in the industry. Day 1 is at the Palladium Theater and is a great venue! Day 2′s location hasn’t been announce but …
I recently came across a Backbone.js plugin called Backbone.Mutators. It’s an awesome but simple design pattern to utilize in your applications and the minified library is pretty small. By including this library in your application, you can adhere to a standard method of retrieving …
Yesterday, Backbone.js 0.9.0 was released. If you’d like to know what changed, you can view the Changelog. NOTE: You must use Underscore.js > 1.3.1 with this Backbone.js update I just dropped the new library into my favorite video website and ran our client-side unit tests. It did not go …
Yesterday, Backbone.js 0.9.0 was released. If you'd like to know what changed, you can view the Changelog .
NOTE: You must use Underscore.js > 1.3.1 with this Backbone.js update
I just dropped the new library into my favorite video website and ran our client-side unit tests. It did not go well. …
When passing arguments, a single hashMap is MUCH easier to deal with than a list of arguments.
Earlier this month, I attended Adobe Max 2011. It was a great conference and I highly recommend anybody who is considering attending to sign-up as soon as possible.
While on the cross-country flight out to Los Angeles, I saw post on Twitter that once of the pre-conference instructors was stuck …
I gave a presentation at NCDevCon 2011 on “Building Lightning Fast Mobile & Desktop Web Applications”. If you missed the presentation, they have posted the presentation online! You can view it anytime but it does require Microsoft Silverlight: View Online Though the slides are in …
I gave a presentation at NCDevCon 2011 on "Building Lightning Fast Mobile & Desktop Web Applications". If you missed the presentation, they have posted the presentation online! You can view it anytime but it does require Microsoft Silverlight: View Online Though the slides are in the video, if …