Having written a post about 5 reasons to love Backbone JS and owing to the huge debate that exists between that and the Google owned Angular JS framework, I thought it only fair that I review and post 5 reasons… Continue Reading
Thanks to Node JS and NPM (that’s Node Package Manager for those not in the know), there’s a ton of talk and effort centered on the concept of JavaScript modules, modular code deployment and streamlined dependency management. Here’s one particularly… Continue Reading
Like his JavaScript language CoffeeScript, Jeremy Ashkenas’s Backbone JS has quickly become one of the leading choices for building scalable, well-designed web applications using JavaScript. It’s by no means the only player in town, but I’ll list 5 reasons why… Continue Reading
Scripting tech is hotter than ever these days. Thanks to innovative projects like Jquery, there sure seem to be a wast array of tools, libraries and frameworks flying around the front and back end develeopment spaces. Here are five projects… Continue Reading
I should learn to keep my big mouth shut. I recently said on the OOTP forums that the FOSP was on indefinite hold and I had no plans to revisit in the immediate future. Then a few people on the… Continue Reading
It’s kind of annoying to me that Dojo SelectBoxes do not have the ability to select all items with a single function call. It’s kind of strange. I can understand their connection to data stores to keep the data, but… Continue Reading
In step 1 of this tutorial, we began our journey down the rabbit hole of module development by first creating a module using the Module Builder tool, adding permissions and a custom database setting entry via a Bonfire Migration and creating… Continue Reading
If you’re like me, you do most of your development work on a local desktop environment. For me, that means running the latest version of VertrigoServ on a Windows 7 desktop using a copy of PHPStorm and the Git command… Continue Reading
Building modules on the ootp open web platform is a fast way to get right to building the type of tool you want to create. For the third part of the oowp developer tutorials, I am going to demonstrate this… Continue Reading
So far in our intro to FOSP series we have looked at: The major components of the architecture Walked through installing and setting it up a web server Dove into the basics of Bonfire and its modular architecture If you’ve… Continue Reading