Backbone: 3 Ways
by Pamela Fox at HTML5 Texas Conference, Austin, Texas (Deck) Backbone is one of the most popular MVC frameworks for JavaScript these days, and one of the reasons for its popularity is that its minimal...
View ArticleManaging a Large Front-End Project with Automated Build Tools
by kperch at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX How do you manage a huge web application‘s front-end when you have a diverse team of programmers, and javascript is not a strong suit for all of them?...
View ArticleYou Got your MVC into my Components: Adding Bindings to Enyo
by Ben Combee at the HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX Enyo (http://enyojs.com) started as an web application framework, focusing on the problem of effectively building reusable UI components....
View Article10 Things You Didn’t Know a Browser Could Do
by Estelle Weyl at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX (Deck) It may feel like the HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript specifications are moving along at a snails pace, but browser capabilities are moving...
View ArticleFront End Legos
by Shay Howe at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX (Deck) There are a million ways to write HTML and CSS, and everyone has their own, but is there a right way? Our code needs to be well structured,...
View ArticleModel-View-Websockets
by Garann Means at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX Many front-end developers are familiar with MVC, and almost all are familiar with event-driven architectures (even if they call them something...
View ArticleRapid Templating: “Designing in the Browser” with Sass, Compass, and Serve
by Nathan Smith at HTML5 Texas in Austin, TX (Deck) Have you ever found yourself needing to build static front-end templates, either as part of a larger project or as a way to communicate the nuances...
View ArticleClosing Panel at HTML5TX Conference
Theme: Where has HTML5 come with the diversity of devices Panelists: Christopher Schmitt, Ryan Joy, Burke Holland, Estelle Weyl, Joe McCann, Mike Taylor What is future-friendly? Joe: being...
View ArticleHTML5 Texas Recap
HTML5 TX Conference 2013 The HTML5 Texas 2013 Conference was great! Here are notes, slides and other resources I collected. Conference Website Eventifier Recap Lanyrd Recap HTML5TX Schedule My blog...
View ArticleHTML5 Texas JavaScript Workshop – Client-Side Storage
Web technologies have taken a long time to progress. A lot of the standards we see today are because browsers decided to implement new features. HTML5 is now just supposed to be HTML. It is supposed to...
View ArticleHow Tag Management Will Supercharge Your Testing Program – Digital Velocity...
Here is my summary of the tag management presentation by Naoshi Yamauchi at the Digital Velocity Tealium User Conference 2014, San Diego, CA Presenter: Naoshi Yamauchi, Chief Performance Officer,...
View ArticleSetting Up a WordPress Development Environment with DesktopServer and GIT for...
One of the challenges in using WordPress with an external hosting environment and multiple developers is the creation of a local development environment with version control that will work seamlessly....
View ArticleIntro to WebGL and Three.js – Front Porch Front-End Developer Conference,...
Presented by David Lyons What are people using WebGL for games interactive demos three.js 3D JavaScript Library – what would take hundreds of lines of code with raw WebGL only require a few lines using...
View ArticleDeploying Websites With Capistrano – Front Porch Front-End Developers...
Presented by Andrew Turner There are lots of ways to deploy websites: Server-side editing FTP upload File Syncing Live Remote Repositories (version control) Post-receive Hooks / Webhooks Third-Party...
View ArticleSMACSS Your Sass Up Mina Markham – Front Porch Front-End Developers...
Presented by Mina Markham SMACSS is not a framework. It’s an approach to authoring your style sheets. You can use categorization – base, – layout, modules, states and themes base styles are bare...
View ArticleRealtime for Reals – Front Porch Front-End Developers Conference, Dallas, TX
Presented by Alexis Abril FeathersJS is a wrapper for Express that allows you to easily create shared RESTful web services and real-time APIs using SocketIO and other websocket libraries. Feathers...
View ArticleDeveloping Mobile Apps with The Ionic Framework – Front Porch Front-End...
Presented by Justin Noel Everyone wants to create an app. There are lots of platforms and cross-platform development costs a lot of money. The Downsides of Native Proficiency in each platform required...
View ArticleSVG Strikes Back – Front Porch Front-End Developers Conference, Dallas, TX
Presented by Matt Baxter SVG – open graphics standard vector-based, good for logos & icons, but not photos vectors are scalable and are not affected by pixel density SVG is ideal for multi-device...
View ArticleResponsive Image Strategies – Front Porch Front-End Developer Conference,...
Presented by Lindsey Norman There are a lot of arguments and it is very complicated. Scenario Large retail client with a lot of imagery Big Lesson #1: Responsive may seem old hat already, but it’s...
View ArticleContext Aware CSS – Front Porch Front-End Developers Conference, Dallas, TX
Presented by Matthew Carver Content needs context defining contextual awareness @media(sensor){adjustment} Disseminating Active map information to mobile hosts Historically the web takes its cues from...
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