Rob Dodson

Continuing from yesterday’s post I’m going to start to incorporate Backbone into my BDD setup.

After a bit of a rocky start yesterday I’ve finally got Mocha and Chai running in the browser which is great.

Since I was previously doing so much RSpec I want to try to bring some of that over to my JavaScript work.

I want to figure out how to communicate on a framework level within Backbone.

Today I want to figure out what kind of events to use when one of my views is added to the DOM.

I’m going to try to approach some of my future articles as more of a question/answer setup so they don’t turn into these sprawling tutorials.

I want to talk a bit more about the Backbone Router because I think it’s one of the first pieces of the framework that people run up against that deviates from the standard MVC setup.

Here are some quick Backbone snippets to help visualize concepts.

Back in April I was reading hacker news when I came across a blog posted titled ‘366 or How I Tricked Myself into Being Awesome’.

I want to keep playing with require.js and AMD modules today so I can really internalize the concepts around them.

I have an upcoming project which uses Backbone and Node.js so I thought it would be good to blog about the topics (particularly Backbone) for a while to make sure I’m well up to speed.

This is going to be a bit of a lightning post but I wanted to quickly show off how to edit the PATH variable that Sublime text uses.

I’m a big fan of sites like RubyQuiz and CodeEval.

Since I’ve been talking so much about D3.js lately I thought it might be fun to start a little project which combines D3 and Ruby.

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Coming from JavaScript I’m very accustomed to doing something like this: var person = { name: 'Rob', city: 'San Francisco' }; console.log(person.city); // 'San Francisco' Using dot syntax to access a Hash is second nature to me.

One of my previous projects involved a ton of work using Flash’s built in Date object.

What is RVM?

Today we’re going to look at this little gem, which is really nothing more than a syntax error.

Coming from Actionscript 3 I’m pretty used to all of the different errors that the Flash compiler and runtime typically throw at me.