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41 posts, page 5 of 9

• Routeless Backbone Contacts 2.0

  Oct 3, 2011 · Backbone.js · coffeescript

  This post describes a revamped version 2.0 of my original Routeless Backbone Contacts application. The material covered here builds on the original post.

  1. The basic application functionality and the underlying data remains the same.
  2. The new user interface is a single two-pane page with a selectable list of contacts on the left and contact details on the right.
  3. A Search box has been added to incrementally filter the list of displayed contacts.
  4. The application is 100% event driven – there is no direct coupling between the views. Backbone.js events emitted by the underlying contact data collection ensure the views are updated automatically when the state of the underlying data changes.

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• Routeless Backbone Contacts

  Sep 23, 2011 · Backbone.js · coffeescript

  You don’t need a URL router to write client-side applications.

  Routeless Backbone.js Contacts is a totally client-side CRUD tutorial application written using CoffeeScript, Stylus, Backbone.js and jQuery which are a perfect match for writing concise, readable well structured web applications.

  • The source is on Github.

  Note: This release described in this post is at the 1.0 tag.

  • Uses DOM events exclusively for UI navigation.
  • The contacts data is persisted locally using browser Web Storage.
  • Templates are written using Underscore.js templates (included with Backbone.js).

  Note: A second version of this tutorial application [has been posted], it builds on the material covered in this post.

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• Switching from the iPad to the Asus Transformer

  Aug 31, 2011 · Android · ipad · tablet

  My blogs are usually technical in content and try to be objective in character, this blog is a bit different, it has an unashamed subjective bias (you’ve been warned).

  Shortly after the iPad 2 was released I went over to the Dark Side and brought one (my first and only Apple computer). I was just fed up waiting for a decent Android tablet. At the time my only requirements were a decent ePub reader and a web browser.

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• Fossil Backend for AsciiDoc

  Aug 30, 2011 · AsciiDoc · fossil

  The AsciiDoc Fossil backend plugin is hosted on Github, it generates Fossil friendly Wiki markup from AsciiDoc source. As of version 1.0.0 (2012-08-30) the Fossil backend plugin embeds linked images and admonition icons in the wiki documents.

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• Keeping a lid on Mobile data

  Jul 17, 2011 · Android

  How to configure your Android phone to automatically turn off the mobile data connection once your mobile data limit is reached.

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