It’s been written about hundreds of times, but I still find it hard to underestimate the value of code that is both self documenting and intuitive to maintain. Not my code, my code is crap. Except what I wrote today. … Continued
More Slides – Backbone & Underscore
Another awesome JavaScriptU workshop last night. I’m still floored that we are filling a room 6 weeks in. We got a great response to the parts on backbone and I think going over all of underscore was valuable. I split … Continued
JavaScriptU Sucks
I love criticism or, rather, I love to learn and criticism is one of the best ways to learn about yourself and your beliefs. Someone recently said that they thought JavaScriptU and what we were teaching was crap. They may … Continued
jQuery Pulse Plugin on github
In an ongoing effort to keep this site more up to date, I’ve moved to wordpress and have been trying to add all the redirects from the old links to new locations. Still one of the largest draws to this … Continued
Backbone.Marionette slides from sandiego.js
You can find the slides here : Backbone.Marionette teaser They were mostly a test of the extensions we are making to Deck.js for JavaScriptU. Writing modular slides in a flavor of markdown and combining them on the fly is proving … Continued
JavaScriptU: Round 3
We’re approaching the third workshop at JavaScriptU and will be going over Backbone, Underscore, and more. We’re starting to get deck.js slides down to a science. Writing slides in markdown with interactive code portions can get beautiful.