Comments for Elf Sternberg

Comment on The Backbone Store, version 2.0 – Backbone.js with Coffeescript, HAML, and Stylus edition! by Eamonn

Eamonn — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:14:12 +0000

Elf, very good tutorial indeed.

For the templates have you considered just using coffeescript like:

template: (json) ->
“”"
Hello #{json.name}
“”"

I’m interested in how you do the breadcrumbs in your base class. Could that be another little tutorial ?

Comment on If you don’t have a mobile strategy, you’re probably doomed. by Elf Sternberg

Elf Sternberg — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:30:24 +0000

Meh. Where’s the money in that?

Comment on If you don’t have a mobile strategy, you’re probably doomed. by Karl Pongratz

Karl Pongratz — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:37:55 +0000

How about a strategy to get gamers back to real life?

Comment on REST is not SOA is not JSON by Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:09:00 +0000

That is an interesting distinction. I’m new to REST and I’m mainly using it because it syncs well with backbone.js. ASP.NET MVC 4 now supports REST with their new webapi. But, I honestly didn’t know the difference between SOA and REST. The way you explain it makes sense. I always thought that REST was just a way to simplify how URLs are constructed to naviagate and fetch data from the server.

Comment on Boarding the “Anti-if” bus by Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:49:19 +0000

Interesting blog post Elf! I am working with some existing code and I was trying to figure out “where do all the jobs get submitted???” Finally I stumbled upon a class method that had a HUGE select statement (vb.net select … case … case) which is very similar to if then else. Ugh! Who writes code like this? Now I have to study each case statement to see how to make my part fit this HUGE traffic sign. Although I don’t think we can ever get rid of all “if statements” and “if expressions” I do see them as a sign of poor architecture. Especially since we have generics and object oriented patterns. Alas, I will most likely add my case statement to the list since re-factoring this mess is way outside the scope of what I’m trying to do. The other thing that if then else blocks do is bury business logic inside code where it is difficult to decipher.

Best regards,
Chris

Comment on Linux, Flash 10, and saving Flash files by Jonathan Sch

Jonathan Sch — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:23:52 +0000

Awesome Post, I was looking all over the place to find out where Adobe was hiding its Flash videos. Thank you!

Comment on The Backbone Store, version 2.0 – Backbone.js with Coffeescript, HAML, and Stylus edition! by Ritesh

Ritesh — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:10:23 +0000

Thanks for a very informative article, i have noticed one potential issue with this implementation, it does not take into account, if a product is bookmarked. Once you bookmark a product, and load it, it would fail (sometimes). I think this is because your Productcollection is not bootstrapped with all the data.

Comment on jQuery: fadeOut a lot, fadeIn a little: Deferred promises and synchronizing jquery.animate() by CMON

CMON — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:36:56 +0000

var siblings = $(element).siblings();
siblings.fadeOut(‘slow’)
.promise()
.done(function () {
$(element).fadeIn(‘slow’);
alert(‘promise’);
});

Comment on A new little software toy: Right Now! by Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:31:35 +0000

Hi Elf,
Thanks for your response. I do think that “right now” is a novel idea. I too find myself searching for things hundreds of times a day and I imagine that being reminded of my “to do’s” and “goals” would pay dividends.
Chris

Comment on A new little software toy: Right Now! by Elf Sternberg

Elf Sternberg — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:23:13 +0000

I think it’s a fine idea to integrate a Google search tab into the page, but I don’t see the point. The idea is to prevent you from immediately haring off with whatever it is that flitted through your mind. This page is meant to make you pause before going on. There have been some changes (sadly, I had to abandon Zepto– see next post) but they’re in service of usability of the do-one-thing idea of it.