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GraphQL Radio

Found GraphQL Radio on YouTube today. There’s not a lot of code but the presenters are all contributors in to core GraphQL projects an so their insights are helpful in…
January 26, 2018
Serverside with GraphQL

Mostly Elixir but one Node.js presentation on handling GraphQL on the server. ElixirConf 2017 – Live APIs with GraphQL Subscriptions – Bruce Williams and Ben Wilson Your browser…
January 24, 2018
Ethereum With Javascript

A couple of tutorials showing how to build Ethereum applications including a bit about using React.js Ethereum Tutorial – JS Decentralized Apps with Ethereum Your browser does not…
January 3, 2018
Build Out Your Blog With Gatsbyjs

More help with building out your blog with Gatsby.js mixed with some GraphQL tutorials (since Gatsby.js relies on GraphQL. Rodrigo Muñoz – graphql Live: Reactive Queries at…
December 26, 2017
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
I Didn’t Attend React.js Conf

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to win the React.js conf ticket lottery which means I didn’t get a chance to rub shoulders with some of the most brilliant minds in…
February 2, 2015
Ember Conf 2014 Summary and Resources

This is a mainly a list of links to notes that others took and a few of my own notes from Ember Conf. Some Great Write Ups: What’s coming in ember in 2014 (Not Ember Conf, but…
March 29, 2014
Ember Conf 2014 Wrap Up

Ember.js’ strength as a framework is second only to its power as a community. Over the past two days at Ember Conf I’ve had a chance to interact with some of the top minds in the…
March 27, 2014
Hardware Hacking with JS

With the Cache Maker club we’re always looking for ways to make it easier for kids to interact with hardware. Traditionally, interacting with hardware meant learning assembly or…
March 18, 2014
Vector Programming and Reactive Javascript

The Functional Part Don’t describe how to process the data using a loop instead have your code state what you want to happen. Use functional concepts to build nice observable…
March 17, 2014
Pete Hunt – Be predictable, not correct.

Mountain West Javascript starts today. Peter Hunt, Facebook developer and contributor to reactjs.org is first up presenting “Be predictable, not correct.” Here’s my notes: Even…
March 17, 2014
Refactoring and Making Promises

After spending the last year writing Ember.js code I’ve realized one really big thing – Ember is about promises. I recently had a chance to refactor some code with a number of…
March 16, 2014
Ember.js Lessons Learned So Far

Ember.js Lessons Learned and Stuff Justin Ball / @jbasdf Justin Ball CTO Atomic Jolt Consultant, Rubyist, Javascriptist, Cyclist, Maker, Entrepreneur Purveyor of Buzzwords What is…
March 15, 2014
Firefox, Vimeo and Froogaloop Have a Little Problem

On one of our latest projects we’re integrating with Vimeo. They provide a great Video player API that makes it pretty simple to interact with videos. Vimeo even provides the…
March 9, 2014
Omniauth, Devise and Facebook Client Login Don’t Play Nice

I’ve had to use Facebook login inside an iframe twice now. Combine Devise with omniauth and omniauth-facebook and you have a pretty great user authentication system. Now try to…
February 27, 2014
Session timeout for your Ember application

We ran into an issue with sessions timing out while users were doing client side stuff with an Ember application we’re building. Once the session timed out they could no longer…
January 2, 2014
Using Chosen with Ember.js

Harvest’s Chosen select control is handy for cleaning up unwieldy or horribly long select boxes. It’s a nice little bit of UI sugar that can help make your users happier and we…
October 7, 2013
Don’t miss the ‘.’ – Computed Property that depends on Ember.ArrayController contents

My fun/stupid ember mistake of the day. I even put together a jsbin to help track down the problem. It’s a tiny problem that is hard to spot. Right there at the very end there’s a…
August 30, 2013
jqXHR Returning Readystate 0 and Status 0?

I’ve seen this error a couple of times and I always forget what causes it so for my own sanity I post it here. If you make an Ajax request and the response comes back with…
February 25, 2013
jQuery ajax request yields statusText: No Transport

If you write code you hate Internet Explorer. You get everything just right in Chrome, Firefox, Safari – any other browser really and then everything falls apart in Internet…
December 6, 2012
jurlp and Internet Explorer 8

For those who don’t write code the choice to use Internet Explorer probably hasn’t been influenced by much more than the fact that it’s sitting on the desktop ready to use. For…
October 30, 2012
Require.js, Backbone.js and Almond.js Example Application

We refactored OERGlue to use backbone.js. That makes our life a lot simpler. Along the way we discovered require.js and I entered nerdvana. The documentation for require.js and…
December 22, 2011
Backbone.js – Clean up your views

I’ve been integrating backbone.js into OER Glue. After years of writing all kinds of spaghetti javascript code to manage client side ajax backbone.js is like manna from heaven. If…
September 14, 2011
Pushing my luck with jQuery. Scope matters.

OER Glue makes heavy use of jQuery. We’re currently working on a proxy version of the technology that won’t require installing a browser plugin. It’s pretty cool. One of the…
August 26, 2011
Converting a jQuery Object into a String

I’m so used to everything having a ‘to\_s’ method that when it’s not there I feel like going out a kicking puppies. In jQuery you can always get the contents of a jQuery object…
February 8, 2011
In javascript string replace doesn’t do what you think it does

When doing a string replace in javascript if you try something like this: You’ll find that the result is: The replace method in javascript is not a global replace. Instead it does…
January 20, 2011
Userfly Ruined My Weekend – “jQuery(“form.ajax”).ajaxForm is not a function”

I’ve been a big fan of Userfly because they make usability testing easy. Their tool is really quite amazing. However, this last weekend and into today I’ve become less of a fan…
July 20, 2010