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CakeMail is looking for 2 devs + free beers at js-montreal Yup! CakeMail is hiring, we want to grow our engineering team a bit, and as such we got 2 new positions open. We are looking for 1 front-end dev working with me & 1 back-end dev. In this exciting mindset, CakeMail will be sponsoring js-montreal next tuesday(August 13). There will be free beers + pizza […] Cedric Dugas No responses August 8, 2013
Gluing together Jasmine, Grunt, Travis CI & Github, testing front-end code has never been easier Battle testing api’s, that’s a pretty common task in the testing world. Now testing the front-end code of an application, or website, that’s a bit newer. Go back 3 years ago and there wasn’t a whole lot of frameworks to do that, you had qUnit, and it was not all that sexy. But the more […] Cedric Dugas No responses July 8, 2013
backbone-generate scaffolding plugin becomes better, evolving into Grunt-generate 3 months ago I open sourced bb_generate, a grunt plugin that scaffold files for backbone.js, the idea was to have an easier solution than yeoman to generate a custom scaffolding solution for specific projects. It seems I was not the only one thinking about having an easier solution. Camille Reynders thought the same thing and […] admin No responses May 26, 2013
The weird state of mobile web apps There are countless of articles debating going native or HTML5 for your next mobile app. But with Linkedin recently deciding to going back to native I am really starting to ask myself if HTML5 is still part of the equation for mobile apps at the current moment. Let’s look at a small retrospective & see […] Cedric Dugas 8 responses May 12, 2013
jQuery Engage, a plugin taking a stab at better engaging blog readers Optimizing user interactions is a never ending quest in software development. Fortunately in our time and age innovative ideas are rapidly incorporated and improved by other developers. In that mindset I present today jQuery Engage, a plugin that helps you optimize user interaction with blogs & articles. This plugin adds a social toolbar when the […] Cedric Dugas 13 responses March 18, 2013
Data mining user behaviors in web apps tl;dr I got a jquery plugin that track agitated user behaviors. Do you currently track user behaviours? Most people would say yes, if you have google analytics installed you do track behaviors, at least a form of it. But do you do the extra mile to understand your users? That’s a question that could be […] Cedric Dugas No responses March 6, 2013
Implementing live updates with Backbone.js I don’t know about you, but backbone.js always left me crave for more. It’s the simplicity of it that makes me want to learn how others are using it to solve real world problems. When I’ve started work on Clevertim CRM, which heavily uses backbone.js, I wanted to read about some of the real world […] Cedric Dugas No responses March 2, 2013
Scaffolding backbone.js generators with grunt.js Following my encounter with yeoman, I wanted to see if I could easily create my own generators with Grunt. Not because yeoman ones were bads, they are in fact pretty good, but I just do not work exactly like Yeoman wants me too. Another thing is that I wanted easily modifiable generators that could be […] Cedric Dugas No responses February 27, 2013
Yeoman and friends Isn’t it every developer dream to have his own command line & scaffolding tool? Do we really save time by creating and using those? I’m not quite sure but I certainly feel fancy when I use them. Enter Yeoman, a tool that streamline your front-end development. or so it seems. Frankly while I now “get” […] Cedric Dugas 3 responses February 26, 2013
Death to monolithic libraries If you write code for the web you have dealt with them, gigantic libraries that does everything for you in one nice package. I’m not talking about utilities libs & frameworks like jQuery and backbone. I’m talking about Lightboxes, sliders, form validators, file uploaders, wysiwygs, and etc. They offer you tons of features, a big […] Cedric Dugas 4 responses February 7, 2013