Notebook: Code
Meet Achilles
Achilles is a tool that sets out to solve a daily problem in web development: how can a site offer both dynamic user experiences and the robustness of static pages without the developer having to repeat herself?
Composition in Javascript
Last week offered some fairly esoteric notes on dependency injection. This week, it’s time to put them to use with a quick dive beneath the waters of... Read on →
Javascript dependency injection: what you should know
Dependency injection might be the best technique you didn’t know you were already using. For javascript developers, it’s both exceptionally easy to... Read on →
Tiny model relations with Backbone.associate
Several months ago I outlined a minimal implementation for model associations in Backbone. As my projects at the time had little concern for their initial... Read on →
Parameterized testing in Javascript
Why describe in code what you can capture in a variable? Read on →
Why listenTo in Backbone 0.9.9
One of Backbone’s great advantages is that it changes very little. Up until the release of 0.9.9, the Events mixin used throughout the library provided... Read on →
CoffeeScript Sucks
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the drip. Read on →
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