Category Archives: JSON

A First Look At My Arduino BBQ Thermometer

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Derick Bailey

I’ve uploaded a first look at the Arduino powered BBQ thermometer and software that I’m building. It’s using an Arduino Uno with Ethernet shield.  The probe is a 100K “meat probe” (aka “thermistor”) that I took from a store bought … Continue reading →

Also posted in Arduino, C, Hardware, KendoUI, Mobile | 3 Comments

Backbone.Syphon: Serialize Form Inputs To JavaScript Objects

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Working with form elements in a Backbone view can become very tedious very quickly. You will either end up writing a lot of repetitive code to read values from the form, or end up using a key-value-observer or data-binding solution … Continue reading →

Also posted in Backbone, Backbone.Syphon, Javascript, JQuery | 21 Comments

Searching With A BackboneJS Collection

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Derick Bailey

In my last post on composite JS apps, I mentioned needing a search and search results section of my app. I’m starting off with a very simple search box that will let a user enter a name or description of … Continue reading →

Also posted in Backbone, Javascript | 6 Comments

Backbone.js: Object Literals, Views Events, jQuery, and `el`

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I’ve seen this question in various forms on StackOverflow, more than a few times: Why aren’t my view event callbacks are being fired? or My view events won’t fire. What am I doing wrong? or My view’s `el` is empty? … Continue reading →

Also posted in Backbone, Javascript, JQuery | 18 Comments

Simple XML to JSON with PHP

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Sean Biefeld

Hello all, it’s been a while since I have blogged anything, been extremely busy with personal events in my life. So to get back into the swing of things I am going to KISS this post. I recently needed to … Continue reading →

Also posted in Management, Philosophy of Software, Retrospectives | Leave a comment

Rendering jQuery Templates With Backbone Views

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Derick Bailey

In my previous examples of using views with Backbone.js, I showed a simple login form that was built directly in to the page’s html markup. In a more complex app, you are likely going to load content from a server … Continue reading →

Also posted in Backbone, Javascript, JQuery, Model-View-Controller | 16 Comments

Making Mongoid Play Nice With Backbone.js

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Derick Bailey

Backbone has some great features that make it dirt-simple to integrate with a Rails back end. For example, the Backbone models have a .fetch(), .save() and .destroy() method on them. These methods make a call back to your server, based … Continue reading →

Also posted in Backbone, Javascript, MongoDB, Mongoid, Rails, Ruby | 11 Comments