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Web Directions Code 2013
The second incarnation of the Web Directions Code conference was this year on 2.-3. May, and I was fortunate enough to both attend and speak. The conference held in Melbourne Town Hall was the place to geek out about all … Continue reading
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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
A Chatty Atmosphere
A leading online learning provider recently engaged us to add social features to their website so that students could more easily collaborate, and thus be more successful with their study. One of the main social features required was providing students … Continue reading
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An Identity Map for Backbone.js
One problem with single-page apps is that application state can stick around for longer than it would in a more traditional request-response web app. Because your users aren’t refreshing the page very often, you can have JavaScript objects sitting around … Continue reading
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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Halo Vert.x – Building a Chatbot With Vert.x
A little while ago I did an internal talk at Shine describing the use cases and benefits of using asynchronous web technologies. As part of the talk I showcased a little demo I’d put together called Haloworld. Haloworld is a … Continue reading
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Bootstrap makes me look good
Before we begin, let me give you a quick background. I’m a web developer who likes to dabble a bit in UI design. The majority of the projects I work on are non public facing, so they are often without … Continue reading
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