2014 Review: Day 2

2014 Review: Day 2

As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time.  Back in May, Noah Miller took a look at what you need to know about creating plug-ins for the gulp build system: A...

2014 Review: Day 1

As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time.  Brian Poteat contributed a few posts looking at the Meteor web application framework: Meteor: Working with Accounts...
It’s a (jQuery-style) Promise

It’s a (jQuery-style) Promise

Way back when I brought up the topic of promises (particularly, jQuery Deferred), and I promised we would come back to the topic someday. Well, that promise has finally resolved, and this is the done block. Don’t get it? Don’t worry, all shall be...
Factories, not Fixtures

Factories, not Fixtures

For years, the most common way to provide test data for automated tests has been fixtures – hard-coded values, usually stored in text files.  For example, here’s some YAML-formatted data for a city model object: – model: city fields: id: 1 name: Los...