Greatest Hits (Vol. 1)

I’m just realizing that this here blog just celebrated its first birthday — my first ‘hello world’ post here was May 1, 2012. This seems like a good opportunity to go looking through the archives and point to some older posts that newer...

A Visual Guide to Marionette.js Views

When I first began working on the front-end to this one interactive application, I decided to just write a few lines of JavaScript to handle some miscellaneous things behaviors on the front-end. However, that soon turned into a completely interactive front-end with...

Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js : Part 2

Part 1 of this series can be read here. The project is a simplified morse code simulator that animates morse code being sent over a telegraph line. The complete source is available here and the running code can be seen here. In this post I’ll discuss the code that...

Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js : Part 1

CoffeeScript has been all the rage lately and I’ve been wanting to hop on board the bandwagon. I’ve also seen Backbone.js mentioned quite a bit and was even more intrigued after listening to this .NET Rocks podcast. I decided to convert some plain...