Monthly Archives: March 2012

Proxies And Decorators In JavaScript

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Proxies and Decorators are both design patterns in software development – recipes that provide common solution to common problems. I largely group Proxies and Decorators in to the same category and use them interchangeably because the implementation between them is 99% … Continue reading →

Posted in Design Patterns, Javascript, Principles and Patterns | 3 Comments

Providing Synchronous / Asynchronous Flexibility With jQuery.when

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I’ve quickly become a fan of jQuery’s Deferred / Promise features. They’ve been around for a little bit now, but I only recent started using them and they’ve helped me solve a number of problems with my asynchronous JavaScript code. … Continue reading →

Posted in Async, Backbone, Javascript, JQuery, Marionette | 8 Comments

Managing Layouts And Nested Views With Backbone.Marionette

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I’ve received numerous questions about managing layouts and nested views in Backbone over the last few months. Until recently, though, I never had a great answer. Many of the applications that I’ve built had a lot of custom code to … Continue reading →

Posted in Backbone, Composite Apps, Javascript, Marionette | 18 Comments

TrafficCop: A jQuery Plugin To Limit AJAX Requests For A Resource

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Derick Bailey

A while back, I wrote about asynchronous template loading for Backbone applications. At the bottom of that post, I showed some code that I wrote which would limit the number of AJAX calls that are made to the server, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Async, Javascript, JQuery | 4 Comments

Backbone.js And JavaScript Garbage Collection

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Derick Bailey

A question was asked on Stack Overflow recently, and I provided an answer that I think is worth re-blogging here (while cleaning up the text / grammar). My answer goes in to a little bit of the idea behind a garbage … Continue reading →

Posted in Backbone, DOM, Javascript, Marionette | 9 Comments

Resizing KendoUI Splitter To Fill Screen Vertically

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I dropped the jQuery.Layout plugin in favor of KendoUI’s Splitter control yesterday. Kendo’s Splitter is just so much easier to use and more flexible. It was a no-brainer for me, really. But I ran in to a problem: how to … Continue reading →

Posted in Javascript, JQuery, JSFiddle, KendoUI | 1 Comment