Today I am happy to announce the release of jQuery UI Bootstrap 0.2. This release includes a number of bug fixes and new additions to the theme and can be downloaded from the release site now.
Understanding MVC And MVP (For JavaScript And Backbone Developers)
Last updated: 16th Jan, 2012.
Before exploring any JavaScript frameworks that assist in structuring applications, it can be useful to gain a basic understanding of architectural design patterns. Design patterns are proven solutions to common development problems and can suggest structural paradigms to help guide us in adding some organization to our application.
Short Musings On JavaScript MV* Tech Stacks
Lately, there have been a number of developers getting in touch to discuss the tech stacks for their web applications. In this short post, I'd like to focus on the JavaScript side of some of these conversations.
We're at an interesting point in time where not only do we have mature solutions to help organize our scripts based on modularity and separation of concerns, but developers looking to build non-trivial applications are almost spoiled for choice as application architecture has finally gotten the level of attention it deserves.
jQuery UI Bootstrap – A New Bootstrap-inspired Theme For Your Widgets
I recently released the first version of a new project called jQuery UI Bootstrap – a Twitter Bootstrap inspired theme for UI widgets. For a demo of the theme or to download it, hop on over to the project homepage.
Backbone Fundamentals – A Free Work-In-Progress Book For Developers Of All Levels
About a week ago, I began working on a new article about Backbone.js. It was due to cover some concepts and insights intermediate or advanced users might appreciate, but I found myself wanting to reference topics beginners might need to know if they wanted to get the most out it. Quite a few of them.
In the end, I decided it might make more sense to just write a book on Backbone instead. Something free, targeted at developers of all levels, that I could reguarly update easily and perhaps get some input on from the community (if they were up for it). I called it Backbone Fundamentals.
I just really dig JavaScript. I'm a writer, speaker and a JavaScript developer for AOL (yes, we're still around!).