Category Archives: JavaScript

Hot on the heels of picking up Ember and starting to learn it, I think I’ve actually learned something useful! I certainly hope I have, at least. Otherwise, I’m going to be in trouble soon. In my EmberCloneMail app, I … Continue reading →

It’s been a little less than a year since I dove heard-first in to Backbone. It seems there’s been a tremendous amount of movement on the JS-MV* front in that time, and one of the up and coming contenders for … Continue reading →

Most Backbone applications either use jQuery or Zepto as their DOM manipulation of choice. I tend to use jQuery as it’s supported across more browsers and has more features – though it is a little heavier in terms of download … Continue reading →

As JavaScript applications become larger and larger, we have to think about the download size, memory usage and other performance constraints for our end users. There are a number of aspects to consider, one of which is how to deliver … Continue reading →

In a previous post, I showed some code that I wrote to guarantee the execution of a callback method after a Backbone collection was loaded. Even if you added the callback after the collection had been loaded, it would run. Shortly … Continue reading →

Most Backbone application examples that you find on the web are very small and very simple. They tend to use a very simple idea of an application “init” method to start up a router and have the router kick off … Continue reading →

In working with a client recently, we ran in to a rather sticky situation. We were setting up a route to “persons/:id”, and as you would expect, we wanted to load the person in question and display the details of … Continue reading →

Rails wants you to put specific files in specific folder structures, based on the object type that will be in the file. Java demands that files in a folder structure are namespaced by that folder structure. VisualStudio also makes it … Continue reading →

A few days ago I pushed some changes to the form validation up to my WatchMeCode website. I was trying to fix a scenario where a browser cache would have some of the data in the purchase form already filled … Continue reading →

In one of my current apps for a client, I have an activity based security system that determines what the user is allowed to do. The trick to this system is that all of the authorization checks happen on the … Continue reading →