Category Archives: Community

Tips On Submitting A Conference Session

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Derick Bailey

In the last 3 or so years, I’ve had every conference submission I’ve entered, rejected. Now that doesn’t mean I haven’t spoken at any conferences – I’ve been invited to a handful and have had a ton of fun at … Continue reading →

Also posted in AntiPatterns, Education, Retrospectives | 11 Comments

Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Derick Bailey

In the last three years I’ve gone from full time .NET development to full time Ruby on Rails and then full time JavaScript. It’s been an awesome ride, so far, but it’s not done yet. I started digging in to … Continue reading →

Also posted in NodeJS, PHP, Productivity, Ruby | 27 Comments

MarionetteJS Screencasts And Videos

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Derick Bailey

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 Backbone, Javascript, Marionette, Screencast | 3 Comments

Interview With Upfront Podcast: Backbone And Marionette

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Derick Bailey

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 Backbone, Javascript, Marionette, Open Source, Podcast | Leave a comment

Dublin ALT.NET / Skills Matter / Kiev ALT.NET slides & code

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

The last few weeks I was in Europe giving a few NServiceBus trainings, and gave some local user group talks on Real World Polyglot Persistence. Two of the events were live streamed, and the SkillsMatter talk was recorded: Dublin ALT.NET … Continue reading →

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Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I do my best to support the people that use my open source projects. I don’t always do things right, I don’t always respond in a timely manner. Sometimes I just have to walk away from an issue or request … Continue reading →

Also posted in AntiPatterns | 47 Comments

Warm Crocodile Conference: Copenhagen, Denmark

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Derick Bailey

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 Backbone, Javascript, Marionette, Presentations, Principles and Patterns | 4 Comments

Moving Forward: KendoUI

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Just over 2 years ago, I left the corporate life for the independent life. At that time I didn’t have many opportunities for work in my area and moving in to independent consulting was basically dropped in my lap. I … Continue reading →

Also posted in Business, Consulting, Javascript, KendoUI, Telerik | 8 Comments

Upcoming talks–Nov/Dec 2012 edition

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I’m going to be traveling a bit after Thanksgiving to Dublin, London, and Kiev. I like to try and do something with the local community folks (mostly because I enjoy foreign ales). If you’re around, come by and say hello! … Continue reading →

Also posted in Javascript | 9 Comments

Lostechies.com traffic growth 2009 to 2012

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I was looking at some pageviews on google analytics (GA) and and comparing my pageviews to the rest of the traffic on the site. This made me realize I could not pull the type of report I wanted from GA.  … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Albacore, C#, Rake, Unit Testing, Vim | 2 Comments