Photos and tales of our glorious Green Mountain State adventures.
Last night was the third BurlingtonJS meet-up, and it seems to have been another success. Attendance was good and the crowd was once again pretty engaged. Always fun, always a room full of smart people, always good discussion. This month, I had the privilege of presenting, and took a few pages from chapters Michael Fogus’s […]
Last night was the second BurlingtonJS meet-up and once again it felt like a huge success. Many thanks again to Patrick and Pete for organizing it; there was a great turn out and a lot of great discussion. The theme of the night was Node and the presenters did a fantastic job. First up, Dave […]
Last night as the inaugural BurlingtonJS meet-up at the Office Squared space. As an attendee, I would call it a success. We had two fantastic speakers: Agilion’s Pete Brown (@beerlington) who gave a good intro to Ember.js (summarized thusly); and Draker’s Ian Metcalf, who demoed an attempt at building a Prezi alternative using Backbone.js and […]
Yesterday, I gave a talk (slides are here, and/or rate my talk here) at the fourth Vermont Code Camp on how to run fast, reliable, headless unit tests for JavaScript using the Jasmine BDD test framework and PhantomJS. What follows here is a summary of “the meat” of the talk: specifically, how to execute your […]
Well this one is coming up fast… I’ll be speaking at VT Code Camp 2012 this Saturday (September 22nd) at 1:30pm. The title of the talk is “Like a Genie from the Lamp: Headless JavaScript BDD with Jasmine and PhantomJS” and here’s the abstract: Jasmine is a mature BDD test framework for JavaScript, and though […]
And the rest. While folks are lamenting Lake Champlain’s current record low, let’s take a moment to remember that it was just a year ago that we were still dealing with the record high levels from the winter. And that was before Hurricane Irene came along.
Young kid skateboarding No helmet? Sure, whatever. But flip-flops? What gives?
First time ever. Apparently these weren’t even necessarily “easy” ascents either. Had an amazing time. Would definitely do this again.