Sharing Our Work: Testing and Feedback in Design:
Really thoughtful and fascinating piece about the iterative design process at Etsy. If you’re involved in product or interface design in any way, you should read this. The story about the sidebar was magnificent.
Creating Desktop Applications With node-webkit By Mike Cantelon, writing at the StrongLoop blog. This isn't the first time that node-webkit has come across my radar, but this is a good little intro for someone who hasn't heard of it before. (tagged: node-webkit Node.js JavaScript WebKit ) Offline First! This website is starting a discussion about […]
Five Patterns to Help You Tame Asynchronous JavaScript Decent post by Jim Coward (writing for the Tech.pro blog) covering callbacks, the observer pattern, messaging, promises, and finite state machines — all as approaches to dealing with your async JavaScript. It's a decent read and is a fairly comprehensive survey. There is some nit-picking that can […]