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Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… It was almost a year ago that I announced a book on building Backbone.js plugins. Since then… nothing. Well I finally got tired of sitting on it and over the … Continue reading
Also posted in Books, Marionette, Principles and Patterns
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MarionetteJS v1.0
Hot on the heels of the Backbone v1.0 release, I present MarionetteJS v1.0! I quietly released it over the weekend, and I’m glad I did. I already had a bug report and have released v1.0.1 to fix it. :D The … Continue reading
Also posted in Javascript, Marionette, Open Source
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Event Aggregator And/Or/vs Mediator: A Tale Of Two Patterns
Design patterns often differ only in semantics and intent. That is, the language used to describe the pattern is what sets it apart, more than an implementation of that specific pattern. It often comes down to squares vs rectangles vs … Continue reading
Also posted in AntiPatterns, Design Patterns, Javascript, JQuery, Principles and Patterns, Workflow
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Method Rewriting: Running With A Lit Stick Of Dynamite
I had a problem I wanted to solve. I thought to myself, “I know! I’ll use function rewriting!” and it was good… I solved the problem. But I also introduced some other problems regarding method references and event handlers. Method … Continue reading
Also posted in AntiPatterns, Javascript, Principles and Patterns
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MarionetteJS Screencasts And Videos
There’s been a lot of movement with MarionetteJS and screencasts in the last few months – enough that I decided to add a new “videos” section to the website this weekend. It’s a short list right now, but I expect … Continue reading
Also posted in Community, Javascript, Marionette, Screencast
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Managing Events As Relationships, Not Just References
In my Scaling Backbone Apps With Marionette talk, I have some slides that deal with JavaScript zombies in Backbone apps. This isn’t a new subject by any means. It is one that I talk about a lot, and spend a … Continue reading
Also posted in Analysis and Design, Javascript, Principles and Patterns
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Interview With Upfront Podcast: Backbone And Marionette
I was fortunate enough to be the first guest on the Upfront Podcast this week. It’s a new podcast hosted by Jack Franklin and Ben Howdle, focused on all things front-end web development. You’re going to want to add this … Continue reading
Also posted in Community, Javascript, Marionette, Open Source, Podcast
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Warm Crocodile Conference: Copenhagen, Denmark
UPDATE: the slides from this talk are available here: https://speakerdeck.com/derickbailey/scaling-backbone-dot-js-applications-with-marionette-dot-js — If you’ll be in the Copenhagen, Denmark area during the week of January 16 – 17, 2013, you should check out the Warm Crocodile Conference. I’m signed up to give a … Continue reading
Also posted in Community, Javascript, Marionette, Presentations, Principles and Patterns
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Backbone.EventBinder: Better Event Management For Your Backbone Apps
One of my most popular blog posts in recent history is my Zombies! RUN! post where I outline the possibility and problem of memory leaks and “zombie” views and other objects in Backbone applications. There’s a good chance, in fact, … Continue reading
Also posted in Backbone.EventBinder, Javascript, Marionette
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Backbone Fundamentals, Intro To Marionette, TodoMVC, And More
I’m very happy to announce that this week’s addition to Addy Osmani’s Backbone Fundamentals book is a chapter on Marionette! I was lucky enough to be able to contribute a large portion of the chapter to the book, including a … Continue reading
Also posted in Books, Community, Javascript, Marionette
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