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Backbone Boilerplate Vs. Rails Asset Pipeline
We recently shifted from Backbone Boilerplate to the Rails Asset Pipeline for generating the various assets (Javascript, CSS, HTML, images, etc) that comprise teamstuff.com, a single-page app. In this post I’ll talk about our motivations for making the shift, what we had to change to get … Continue reading
Amazon Web Services Publish a Case Study on Shine in the Cloud
Into things Cloud-related? Amazon Web Services have just posted a case study on how Shine (yes, that’s us) is migrating mission-critical installations of our products from customer’s on-site infrastructure to the cloud. It also covers how Shine has used RDS … Continue reading
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JSConf Down Under: A Conference Report
I attended JSConf Down Under yesterday. The conference format was quite straightforward: one day, one stream, nine speakers. In this post I’ll talk about the three things at the conference that had the biggest impression on me: Brendan Eich’s presentation … Continue reading
Efficient Stateful Views With Backbone, Part 2: Collections & Animations
In Part 1 of this blog series, we saw how UI state could be maintained efficiently in a Backbone app by introducing view-management infrastructure and retaining references to views. In Part 2, I’m going to talk about how this strategy … Continue reading
Efficient Stateful Views with Backbone.js, Part 1
One of the good things about single-page apps is that it’s possible for them to remember UI state within a page. If an area of the page is hidden from the user, and then redisplayed later, you’re able to display … Continue reading
Javascript Module Loading + Shared Namespaces = Badness
Both module loaders and shared namespaces are valid techniques for modularising your JavaScript code. However, doing both at the same time is a recipe for difficult-to-track defects.
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On Pair Programming
Working on a project that used pair programming was something that I’d wanted to try for a long time but had never had the opportunity to do. Consequently, when a chance came up to work on a project where the … Continue reading
How to Stop Cucumber Becoming Technology Roadkill
I’ve worked on a number of projects with Cucumber now, and I think it is a terrific tool. However, I’ve been seeing it used in ways that it was not originally intended for, the consequence being acceptance-test suites that grow … Continue reading
Building a shared calendar with Backbone.js and FullCalendar: A step-by-step tutorial
In a prior post, I explained how Backbone.js can be used to implement cascading select boxes. However, this was pretty much just a read-only affair, and these were relatively simple HTML elements. How does Backbone fare creating, updating and deleting … Continue reading
Cascading Select Boxes with Backbone.js: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Up until recent years, client-side Javascript development has resembled the wild-west from a software design perspective. Libraries like jQuery have certainly helped, but with the rise of Single-Page Applications, jQuery alone doesn’t provide enough of an overall framework for large-scale … Continue reading
