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by rmurphey3 10y ago
Front-End Systems Engineer | Indeed.com | Austin, TX or Seattle, WA (ONSITE) Join a small, talented team that’s focused on radically changing how we approach front-end application development at Indeed. As an early team member, you’ll have
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
Comments like this make me so excited to write more posts. Thanks.
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Look for it in a future version!
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jQuery Fundamentals: A major revamp for the online jQuery guide(jqfundamentals.com)
126 points by rmurphey3 14y ago|11 comments
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Open Conference Expectations(gist.github.com)
18 points by rmurphey3 14y ago|2 comments
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The yayQuery Soundtrack(jonneal.bandcamp.com)
8 points by rmurphey3 14y ago|0 comments
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
I won't address the rest of your comments, but please note that I said "tools like UglifyJS or Closure Compiler" -- if the RoR asset pipeline is taking care of this for you, then good! The point is that good front-end devs should be aware
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
My fear with doing that is that if the functions file is separated from the tests file, then it becomes difficult to see at a glance what the function needs to do in order to make the test pass. That said, I agree that what you're supposed
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
I definitely want to add more tests to the set -- if you have ideas for other tests, please open an issue or a pull request on the repo!
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
Thanks for the great feedback -- it occurred to me that people could simply hard-code the "right" answers into their function. However, if I am using this to assess a candidate, I plan to actually read the code that they write :) And if a p
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
The exact set of skills that one needs in order to do one's job will of course vary from person to person. What I have tried to point out in this post is that these topics are ones that anyone who calls themselves a front-end developer wi
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
I hope I gave due credit to the possibility that part of what's changed is me when I said in the next sentence: "Maybe it’s the result of people starting to take front-end dev seriously, maybe it’s browser vendors mostly getting their shit
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
You are right, all of this can be done via makefile ... assuming you know how to set up a makefile and take the time to do so. Part of the goal of grunt, as I understand it, is to make it so developers have fewer excuses for not doing thi
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
Much love for Alex Russell and for efforts to move the web forward as a serious development platform, but this was among the more content-free stories I've read in a long time. If you'd like to actually learn about "model-driven views," the
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by rmurphey3 14y ago
Yes, the point of the post was that it had a lot more to do with being a kid with a computer than with being male or female. The point of the title was that it was a story of ... a girl and her computers :)
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
It would have been great to see these improvements contributed back to PhoneGap/Cordova, which has an extremely permissive license and whose code is open-source. As it is, trigger.io comes with a restrictive license, I have to create an acc
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Zappos: Security Email(blogs.zappos.com)
7 points by rmurphey3 15y ago|1 comments
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JSConf's Inverted Call for Speakers(docs.google.com)
2 points by rmurphey3 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
I saw a presentation on Enyo at CapitolJS, where I also announced that Toura would be open-sourcing Mulberry, and indeed, there are a lot of similarities. I too would like to get some clarity about what HP intends to do with it :)
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
Basically, Toura Mulberry uses PhoneGap as a wrapper around a "single-page" application that's powered by the Mulberry JavaScript/HTML/CSS framework. The command-line tools in Mulberry help you quickly scaffold the structure, content, and c
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
I learned a whole lot about Carl Fisher researching my Modern JavaScript presentation for JSConf ( http://blip.tv/jsconf/jsconf2011-rebecca-murphey-5478159 & http://www.slideshare.net/rmurphey/modern-javascript ). He and his fellow Go
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
There is a screencast demo at http://toura.github.com/mulberry/ -- the code has not yet been released (soon!) so there unfortunately isn't yet any demo code to share, but a demo will be part of the release when that happens.
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
In a nutshell, Mulberry is more opinionated than Sencha -- by being opinionated, it makes it much easier to get an app up and running without worrying about the underlying architecture of the app. Mulberry expects that you're creating a con
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
There is a total of 387k of JS (minified and excluding phonegap.js), but it's important to remember that all of the JS is shipped as part of the native app, so it all lives on device -- none of the JS is shipped over the wire except when th
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
Since this was a rewrite of a system that just consumed the output of the CMS, the migration was not awful. One day, we just started exporting the new data format and using the new system to create apps. Users continued to use the same CMS
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
The old system has been entirely decommissioned, and the team works entirely on the new system now.
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No country for old hackers(garann.com)
3 points by rmurphey3 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
It's just a video tag for me in Chrome.
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Writing Maintainable JavaScript(channel9.msdn.com)
68 points by rmurphey3 15y ago|19 comments
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by rmurphey3 15y ago
One other question: are there Backbone examples small enough to digest but large enough to be more authentic than a to-do list? This is where I struggle to come up with good teaching examples -- a whole real-world app is simply too much to

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