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jQ.Mobi

bchesley — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:46:44 +0000

jQ.Mobi. Super lightweight mobile JS toolkit.

jsPerf: JavaScript performance playground

bchesley — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:41:49 +0000

jsPerf — JavaScript performance playgroundWhat is jsPerf? jsPerf aims to provide an easy way to create and share test cases, comparing the performance of different JavaScript snippets by running benchmarks. For more information, see the FAQ.

via jsPerf: JavaScript performance playground.

Is there any end to cool JavaScript tools?

The Architect Role in Software Projects

bchesley — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:15:15 +0000

From this excellent book:

The brutal truth is that architecture is too important to be left exclusively to a few people. It’s fine to have an architect, but the key way to keep an architecture intact is to make sure that everyone on the team knows what it is and has a stake in it. Every person who is touching the code should know the architecture, and everyone else who touches the code should be able to benefit from what that person has learned. When everyone is working off of the same set of ideas, the overall system intelligence of the team is amplified. If you have, say, a team of 20 and only 3 people know the architecture in detail, either those 3 have to do a lot to keep the other 17 people on track or the other 17 people just make mistakes caused by unfamiliarity with the big picture.

via Working Effectively with Legacy Code > The Mechanics of Change > Changing Software – Pg. 2: Safari Books Online.

Mock Objects

bchesley — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:49:23 +0000

Mock Objects. Nice resource for gaining a better understanding of test driven development (TDD).

Xprogramming.com

bchesley — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:48:32 +0000

Xprogramming.com. Good site for thinking about software engineering and how to get better.

Bootstrap, from Twitter

bchesley — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:30:24 +0000

Bootstrap, from Twitter

Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.

It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.

Nerd alert: Bootstrap is built with Less and was designed to work out of the gate with modern browsers in mind.

via Bootstrap, from Twitter.

What are the use cases for RequireJS vs. Yepnope vs. LABjs? – Quora

bchesley — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:06:34 +0000

Require.JS

Surprisingly to some (as the author of yepnope), this is the script loader that I use most. Also, I don’t like referring to it as a script loader, at all. It’s way more than a script loader. It just _happens_ to have script loading capabilities as a by-product of what it’s actually trying to accomplish: dependency management via modules.

Require.js is perfect for large applications, especially single page apps. It uses the AMD module specification for defining and requiring modules, and it loads these modules via a built in script loader. But again, that’s secondary. In the end, you should be using Jame’s Burke’s require optimizer `r.js` ( https://github.com/jrburke/r.js ) to build your application into a single file or two, so in production, this is barely a script loader at all.

via What are the use cases for RequireJS vs. Yepnope vs. LABjs? – Quora.

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70 | LinkedIn

bchesley — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:18:01 +0000

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70 | LinkedIn.

I still have my 1978 edition of The C Progamming Language on the shelf and will probably read it at least one more time.

Bye Steve – Thank you for so much!

bchesley — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:16:01 +0000

Steve Jobs passed today and his history is the history of personal computing. I have been personally and professionally inspired by Apple products since I first got into computing. My Mac Classic was my first personal computer and my MacBook was my first laptop. A couple of years ago I returned to the Mac from many years in the land of Windows and it was like going home. Let’s all hope that Apple’s fine people can sustain the kind of innovation and inspiration that personified the company with Steve at the helm.

Adobe buys Nitobi – Ajaxian

bchesley — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:48:12 +0000

As it kicked off its yearly developer event, Adobe announced that it had acquired Nitobi Software, maker of PhoneGap open source software for cross-platform mobile application building with HTML5 and JavaScript. In a blog, Nitobi CEO Andre Charland pledged to pursue donation of the PhoneGap code to the Apache Software Foundation ”to ensure open stewardship of the project over the long term.” In a statement, he said Nitobi and Adobe shared the same philosophy about enabling mobile and Web applications. Dave Johnson, Nitobi CTO said: Adobe was fully supportive of the decision to take PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation.

via Adobe buys Nitobi – Ajaxian.

Wow – that’s big news!