reading at Vermont Tales of Science
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Oh by the way, I’ll be part of this reading on Saturday — 4pm at Quarterstaff Games in Burlington, VT. You should come!
Oh by the way, I’ll be part of this reading on Saturday — 4pm at Quarterstaff Games in Burlington, VT. You should come!
While the thoughts are still fresh in my mind, I wanted to quickly jot down a few things about what it was like to be a TA for the Burlington chapter of Girl Develop It (GDI). Most of what I’m feeling at the end of the day can (in a nutshell) be boiled down to: […]
Advanced Unit Testing Techniques in JavaScript Decent introduction to unit testing with Sinon.js; by Guido Kessels, writing for Nettuts. Though the information Sinon.js itself is useful, the highlight of the article is really the robust definitions that Kessels provides for spies, stubs, and mocks. (tagged: Sinon.js JavaScript unit testing ) Learn Clojure in 15 minutes, […]
Crafting a README By Chris White, writing at the Engine Yard Developer Blog. Most of this should seem like common sense, but I'm also glad someone went to the trouble of writing it down. He mentions Markdown in the blog post, but I'd really try to underscore that point: that Markdown really ought to be […]
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 […]
Animation in AngularJS At yearofmoo.com — looks like first class support for animations is well under way as part of the core AngularJS library. (tagged: animation AngularJS JavaScript ) Building a strong foundation for Vermont’s technology future Interesting piece by Pete Brown (writing over at Beerlington) on the local Vermont tech scene and really building […]
Programming languages ranked by expressiveness The Donnie Berkholz graph that's making the rounds. At the very least it's interesting, even if you ("I") don't necessarily agree with all the results and suspect that the data may indicate a sampling bias. (And as a friend points out, he doesn't seem to have accounted for whether/not the […]
Single-direction margin declarations By Harry Roberts, writing at CSS Wizardry: I’m not sure how I arrived at this rule, but I’m really glad I did and I would likely never ever change it. The basic premise is that you should try and define all your margins in one direction. This means always use margin-bottom to […]
Thoughts on a (very) small project with Backbone and Backbone Boilerplate Rebecca Murphey on Backbone.js: My biggest complaint about Backbone is probably how unopinionated it is about the view layer. (tagged: Rebecca Murphey JavaScript Backbone.js ) Dan Awesome’s Rage Maker And as long as we're raging out with Rage Face memes… (tagged: weird internet humor […]
caffeinate (Taken with Instagram at Speeder & Earl’s)