Understanding MVVM – A Guide For JavaScript Developers

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Backbone.Paginator – New Pagination Components For Backbone.js

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Pagination is a ubiquitous problem we often find ourselves needing to solve on the web. Perhaps most predominantly when working with back-end APIs and JavaScript-heavy clients which consume them. On this topic, today I'd like to announce

Pro-tip: How To Backup All Of Your GitHub Repositories In One Go

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Today, I’m going to present solutions for easily backing up all of your GitHub repositories in just a step or two. Minimal knowledge of GitHub fundamentals are assumed but if you have experience with writing in Ruby that'll be a plus. … Continue reading →

Building Backbone.js Apps With Ruby, Sinatra, MongoDB and Haml

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Introduction In this post we're going to explore writing Backbone.js applications with a Ruby back-end. To assist with this, we're going to use Sinatra – a DSL (domain specific language) for rapidly creating web applications in Ruby. Similar to the … Continue reading →

Scaling Your JavaScript Applications (Videos And Slides) From Async

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Developers creating JavaScript applications these days usually use a combination of patterns like MVC/MV*, modules, widgets and plugins for their architecture.Whilst this works great for apps that are built at a smaller-scale, what happens when your project starts to grow?

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About

I just really dig JavaScript. I'm a writer, speaker and a JavaScript developer for AOL (yes, we're still around!).

I'm also a member of the jQuery core [Bug Triage/Docs/Learning] teams where I (try) to assist with bugs, documentation and developer evangelism. Some of my other OS work has included contributions to Modernizr and other similar projects.

My personal OS projects include jQuery UI Bootstrap and TodoMVC, which helps developers compare JavaScript MVC frameworks. I've also written 'Backbone Fundamentals' and 'Essential JavaScript Design Patterns' and occasionally tech review books like 'JavaScript Web Applications'.

Fundamentals

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.

Finally, try to be open to constructive criticism - none of us know everything and at worst, you might just learn something new that will help you become a better developer.

Friends

I feel honored to have quite a few friends, many of who are spread across the world but remain active and passionate at what they do.

Thanks to @mathias and @jdalton for giving us jsPerf, @divya, @necolas and @paul_irish for h5bp, @peolanha for always being available for a tech review, @jaubourg for just being awesome, the guys at @bocoup for their constant badassery and the rest of the OT-crew for being ah-mazing.

Last but not least, thanks to @elleohellez for understanding my obsession with the web and being the best a guy could ask for.