Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Derick Bailey

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 →

Posted in Async, Backbone, Backbone.Marionette, Javascript | 1 Comment

JavaScript File & Folder Structures: Just Pick One

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Derick Bailey

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 →

Posted in AntiPatterns, Backbone, Javascript, Model-View-Controller | 3 Comments

Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I had a rather large number of remote repositories set up in my Backbone.ModelBinding repository on my box, due to the wonderful community of contributors. But it was time for me to clean out the remotes as I no longer … Continue reading →

Posted in Command Line, Git | 6 Comments

Don’t Rely Solely On jQuery’s “keyup” Event

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Derick Bailey

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 →

Posted in Backbone, Javascript, JQuery, Test Automation, Validation | 5 Comments

Modularity And Security In Composite JavaScript Apps

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Derick Bailey

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 →

Posted in Backbone, Backbone.Marionette, Composite Apps, Javascript, Security | 9 Comments

Rant: That’s Not Rest.

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I’ve asked for an explanation, definition, blog post, book, or any other source of material that can get me up to speed on REST in web development a number of times. It’s a popular subject these days, and there seems … Continue reading →

Posted in REST | 17 Comments

Some Thoughts On Functional JavaScript

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Just for fun I decided to put together a quick sample of some functional JavaScript – as in, functional programming done with JavaScript. I’m not really very familiar with functional languages other than playing with Haskell a bit and doing … Continue reading →

Posted in DSL, Functional, Javascript | 16 Comments

HTML5 And Internet Explorer: Modernizr To The Rescue!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Derick Bailey

My wife wanted to see my WatchMeCode website so she could post it on her Pinterest (which is a site I don’t understand… but that’s beyond the point). IE Hates HTML5 She pulled it up on her work laptop, which … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, User Experience | 6 Comments

Composition Of Responsibility vs Interface Implementation

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Derick Bailey

This started out a comment in a Google+ stream, which is in response to the brujahahahahalols that have been going around concerning ActiveRecord, FubuMVC and Rails. I’m not defending any of these posts or perspectives. I have my own opinions … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Mongoid, Philosophy of Software, Principles and Patterns, Rails, Ruby | 10 Comments

Reducing Backbone Routers To Nothing More Than Configuration

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I received an email from someone who was looking through my BBCloneMail and Backbone.Marionette source code. One of the comments they made talked about how my router callback methods were nothing more than pass-throughs, calling out to another object. (I … Continue reading →

Posted in Backbone, Backbone.Marionette, Javascript | 2 Comments