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To Bootstrap, or Not to Bootstrap…
We have a new product we’re apparently looking to spin off here at work, and as part of that conversation, someone threw out the words “Twitter Bootstrap“. For those of you not familiar with Bootstrap,...
View ArticleThe Hackathon
So, we did a hackathon at work this past week, specifically geared towards front-end engineering. It. was. awesome. For one thing, we got lots of free beer from the people over at Hops and Grain...
View ArticleMy First jQuery Conference Presentation
So, I did my presentation for the Austin jQuery conference earlier today. Being my first time presenting at anything like this, and being fairly introverted, I think it’s being generous to say I was...
View ArticleNever Stop Learning!
“It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money. And I guess that’s what I like about it. It’s easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.” — Jack Handey I love...
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The Javascript Console
Most web developers are familiar with some of the available developer tools out there in various browsers at this point. However, most people don’t use them anywhere near their full potential. The goal...
View ArticleUnit Testing and Writing Testable Code
What do we want?! Front-end unit tests! When do we want it?! For several years, now! So why is it that for all the talk of the importance of unit testing, we rarely encounter it in the workplace? Well,...
View ArticleMy descent into AMD…
Asynchronous module definition. It almost sounds like something out of science fiction. What is this relatively newfangled concept, and why shouldn’t you just hike your pants up to your nipples and...
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Evolving jQuery UI For Web Components
My job centers around writing reusable javascript components. As a result, I spend a lot of time reading, a lot of time writing code, and a lot of time revisiting those things I’ve previously written,...
View ArticleDo you even learn, bro?
ES5 is fairly mainstream at this point, but a lot of real-world developers still have to deal with the likes of IE8 or other legacy support, and shims and polyfills to add missing and expected...
View ArticleFlexible React Components at Any Scale
I’ve been working with React components for about the last 3 years now, with a variety of different state-management conventions being employed, from internal state to object literals to Backbone...
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