Javascript

Simple build script to minify and concatenate files using node.js When you look to choose for a build system, you are certainly not confronted with a lack of choices. There is a ton of build technics out there and choosing one can easily become a long mission for greatness. In my quest to build a web mobile app for CakeMail that can also be thrown […] Cedric Dugas 4 responses October 11, 2012
Backbone View-Model Binding This article briefly discusses how the Backbone.View class is normally used and then introduces a new class that helps makes it easy to synchronize your models and views. The Backbone.View class helps you do a couple of important things that I’ll discuss in very brief detail: (I assume that you are already familiar with Backbone.Views) […] Cedric Dugas No responses April 30, 2012
Automatic Release Notes using GitHub Milestones Let’s face it, writing release notes is painful. This plugin aims to takes the hard work out, it connects directly with your GitHub repository and mashes up some release notes for you using your milestones, issues and comments. It comes with a website but can be plugged anywhere. I always wanted to be open about […] Cedric Dugas One response March 20, 2012
One week after the WeddingDeck launch One week ago I launched my first product, Weddingdeck, an online whitelabel wedding planner. I only tried to make noise in the tech community as this is a MVP and it was quite a small launch. I felt I needed a more complete product before really contacting every wedding magazines on earth, but let’s check […] Cedric Dugas 3 responses February 13, 2012
Launching my first product Some of you guys probably know that I have been working on a project for some time. I finally got around of fixings the last couple of bugs and so today I am launching weddingdeck.com, whitelabel wedding planner. The Pitch When I look at people getting married it always seems like a lot of stress […] Cedric Dugas 6 responses February 6, 2012
Using the jQuery Validation Engine with modal & dialog plugins This is a question I often get asked by email, and I think there is enough requests to warrant a small blog post. All about the DOM The validationEngine expect your form to be present on the page when you initialize the plugin, and this is where modal plugins fall short. If your using those […] Cedric Dugas 27 responses January 23, 2012
Handling “variable is not defined” with underscore template engine One of the cool thing with backbone.js is that you can plug in about any javascript templating engine there is. Also another nice extra is that there is one already bundled with underscore.js that is quite powerful. Personally the template engine provided with underscore cover most of my use cases and is enough for me, […] Cedric Dugas No responses November 29, 2011
Modifying your urls on the fly using the request method with sync in backbone.js Backbone provides one default url for all your types of request with your models. But what if you want to be able to change your url model that is synching with your api depending of the type of request? Well that’s what we are here to do. Backbone Sync Sync is a nice utility used […] Cedric Dugas No responses November 14, 2011
Working with jQuery load() function on images in Internet Explorer 8 and below One big problem with using load() on images is that it just does not work at all on IE. Now there is a lot of solutions proposed to counter this problem but unfortunately most of them are irritating. Why IE handle load() this way Simple, IE already cached your image, why should it need to […] Cedric Dugas 5 responses November 9, 2011
Working with api responses in backbone.js using parse One backbone.js behavior that was kind of upsetting me recently is the fact that it re-syncs your model after you save it on the server. You know, you just set a model you changed, save it on the server in the background and continue your day in your application. Backbone however awaits patiently the response […] Cedric Dugas No responses November 9, 2011