There are two broad narratives in the history of digital development. The first is focused on the user experience. The […]
Category Archives: Javascript
FP: a quiet revolution
Functional Programming (FP) is taking over the programming world, which is kind of weird since it has taken over the […]
A Quick Introduction to Backbone
Who Uses Backbone? airbnb, newsblur, disqus, hulu, basecamp, stripe, irccloud, trello, … Why? http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-why-backbone It is not a framework Backbone […]
Observations on the nature of time. And javascript.
In the course of working on one of our latest projects, I picked up an innocuous looking ticket that said: […]
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There is a new version of gunicorn, 19.0 which has a couple of significant changes, including some interesting workers (gthread […]
Backbone history and IE9
This bit me the other day, so I thought I’d share the pain. IE9 doesn’t support pushState as you probably […]
Polite user interfaces know when to wait a little
Web page elements that appear or disappear on hover should almost always do so with a slight delay. The jQuery plugin hoverIntent makes it easy.
Jonathan Stark – “Building mobile apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript” workshop
Jonathan began with an overview of the current mobile landscape. In a nutshell it’s a minefield of platform fragmentation and device fragmentation. “‘It’s brutal […]
Javascript localization within Plone
For a while now, I’ve been trying to think of the best way to get localized strings into Javascript under […]
Best practices for speeding up your site
Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site — part of an excellent series of articles on the Yahoo Developer […]