Reading this book, I am reminded first of my friend Mike. Of an evening in Baltimore at a mutual friend’s home. Of vodka consumed and books given conversational chase and perhaps not a small amount of hero-worship on my part as he accelerated into his chosen field and I languished behind a copy machine at […]
Opinionated Rundown of JS Frameworks:
Henrik Joreteg, writing at the &yet blog. He does a brief teardown of 5 front end MVC(ish) frameworks (their pros and cons) and while you’re busy coming up with counter-arguments against his inevitable thrust about using “no framework”, he goes on to make almost exactly all of those same points.
Only to wrap it up with what winds up feeling a bit like a sales pitch for his Ampersand framework.
This is not necessarily bad, and he does acknowledge that each team needs to decide for itself what it wants/needs in order to make it effective. At the end of the day, this isn’t a competition to find out what framework is the best (spoiler alert: none of them) — it’s a struggle to find effective work strategies so that we can build great software that solves real problems for people.
Improve Your Tests by Breaking the Rules: Mike Pennisi, writing for the Bocoup blog.
Intentionally provocative? Simple pragmatism? The insane ramblings of a desperate developer? Regardless of your read of this read, we should all aspire to put this ki…
Balance Your Work and Personal Life Like a Pro Kevin Daum at Inc.com: Make a list of the activities that give you energy and strength. Make these a priority in your life. (tagged: work-life balance ) Looking At Attribute Interpolation Workflow Changes In AngularJS Ben Nadel with a breakdown of a small but important change […]
I gave a talk on AngularJS directives recently and a good portion of that talk focused on defining the types of scopes that those directives can have. As something that the talk’s attendees could refer back to, I decided to put together this short blog post. It captures the spirit (if not the exact words) […]
JavaScript Memory Profiling Oriented toward profiling in the Chome Dev Tools, but the underlying principles hold true across browsers. Lots of detail in here. (tagged: JavaScript performance memory garbage collection profiling ) Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful Ilya Grigorik: The inline JavaScript solution has a subtle, but very important (and an often overlooked) performance gotcha: […]
I meant to post this a couple weeks ago but… Well, I’ve been pretty busy. Anyway, in case you haven’t heard me rambling on about it between November and now, I’m working on a book for Packt called the PhantomJS Cookbook. It’s based around PhantomJS, discusses its core APIs, and contains recipes to help front-end […]
Having just wrapped up Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java by Casimir Saternos (O’Reilly, 2014), I’d say that I mostly got out of it what I wanted, and that it serves as a good jumping-off point for developers that want to build “modern” web applications on top of the JVM. More than anything else, […]
JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server August Lilleaas takes a look at using Java 8's Nashorn JavaScript engine to do some server-side rendering tricks with React components. (Bonus points for using Clojure, August…) While there are literally an infinite number of ways to solve some of the problems he's talking […]
Mike McMillan’s Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2014) uses JavaScript as a vehicle for introducing a number of fundamental computer science concepts. It reminds me a little bit of Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation 1 — that is, it’s a book about CS topics that targets people without a CS background. One might consider […]