When kicking off a new application, we always seem to have libraries we need to manually find and add, boilerplate code that needs to be written and a thorough build and testing process we need to get setup. Today we’re … Continue reading
Sublime Text is currently the text editor of choice for a number of developers in the open-source community. It’s sophisticated, has powerful text selection and customization support and also includes a feature not used by many – its build system. … Continue reading
When writing a web application from scratch, it’s easy to feel like we can get by simply by relying on a DOM manipulation library (like jQuery) and a handful of utility plugins. The problem with this is that it doesn’t … Continue reading
Did you guys enjoy Paul Irish’s talk at Google I/O? In case you missed it, yesterday we announced Yeoman – a project we’ve been working on to greatly help improve developer workflow, spanning everything from a comprehensive build process to … Continue reading
In my talk from London Ajax, we'll explore the current state of MVC in the JavaScript community, how Smalltalk-80's MVC differed and whether modern frameworks abuse (or evolve) the MVC pattern. We'll also look at a framework that tries to … Continue reading
I'm on the Chrome team at Google, working on tools to help improve developer productivity and satisfaction.
My personal projects include TodoMVC, which helps developers compare JavaScript MVC frameworks and AuraJS. I've also written 'Developing Backbone.js Applications' and 'Learning JavaScript Design Patterns'.
First do it, then do it right, then do it better. This is one fundamental I always keep in mind when developing anything.
If you're a developer wishing to learn something new, regardless of skill-level, remember that as important as it is to read, it's equally as important to get out there and *do*.
Create a new gist or fiddle, pop open the console and experiment. It's effing fun.
I feel honored to have quite a few friends involved in OSS, many of who are spread across the world but remain active and passionate at what they do. Thanks to my wife, family and the OT-crew for being ah-mazing.
