Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
My latest posts on JavaScript, covering topics from the React ecosystem and elsewhere.
Update: This is a perspective I held for a short time in 2013 when I was heading in the direction of the front end but was concerned about the viability of single page apps for mobile. I now disagree with the opinion here, and fully believe that front end driven apps are the way of the future. Drew…
Brandon Konkle
Armin Ronacher just posted an excellent article [http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/7/1/say-yes-to-javascript/] about Mozilla's recent decision to remove the "globally disable JavaScript" option from the Firefox browser, and why that is a good thing. I completely agree!…
Brandon Konkle
Just saw a great conversation with Brian Mann (creator of a lot of Marionette educational material) in the #marionette IRC channel: > @brian-mann: When you're developing non blue print applications (which is every real application) -- all of those customized specific implementation details…
Brandon Konkle
I just discovered loglevel [https://github.com/pimterry/loglevel], and I love it. It's lightweight, but does everything I want it to. I ran a quick jsperf test [http://jsperf.com/loglevel], and it looks like there is a performance increase in suppressing debug log messages.…
Brandon Konkle
In my last post [http://adoleo.com/blog/2008/nov/7/simple-sharepoint-api-usage-jquery-part-1/] I talked about a simple example of using Sharepoint's owssvr.dll API interface with jQuery. Today I want to provide a more complex example by showing how I've used the technique to create object co…
Brandon Konkle