opinion JavaScript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy When I read things like "Callbacks as our Generations Go To Statement" I’m like maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we’re walking around with a donkey with old rusty GO TO statements clinking on the sides. Rob Conery 22 Aug 2013 · 3 min read
javascript Ember: Baby Steps If you read my blog, you know I've been goofing around with quite a few JavaScript libraries. Some are easier than others. This time, it's Ember's turn. Rob Conery 20 Mar 2013 · 6 min read
javascript EmberJS Confuses Me I've been teeth-deep in Client-side JavaScript frameworks over the last 4 months for Tekpub. This month is Angular, last month was Ember's turn and I gave up. It's the first time I've given up - here's why. Rob Conery 6 Mar 2013 · 8 min read
node Avoiding Messy Situations With KnockoutJS and JavaScript Any tool can create a mess. Some seem more prone to messes then others - that's what I thought of KnockoutJS until recently when I had a chance to catch up with Rob Conery 12 Aug 2012 · 3 min read
node Try It Quiet At NDC 2012, I was set to give a talk on NodeJS, and what it's like to work with it. I dislike the quick "hey neat wow" demos - but how do you show what it's like on a daily basis to a room full of people who have likely never tried it? Rob Conery 4 Jul 2012 · 2 min read
javascript Cleaning Up Deep Callback Nesting With Node's EventEmitter One problem people face when starting out with Node (and JavaScript in general) is handling the asynchronous, deep callback nesting issue. EventEmitters help fix that. Rob Conery 5 Apr 2012 · 3 min read
tekpub Loading Data From The API - How Much Is Too Much? I'm really liking what's coming together with this Hypermedia-ish API. So many ideas and approaches are starting to come into focus. Like this one: how much structured data do I pass on the initial load of the API? Rob Conery 26 Mar 2012 · 2 min read
tekpub Alt.Tekpub: Working More With The Hypermedia (style) API Continuing on with building out a NodeJS app with Express and other buzzwords - I decided to build out a page using my API, while I build the API. Rob Conery 22 Mar 2012 · 7 min read
tekpub Alt.Tekpub: Consuming The API The best way to build an API is to use it while you're building it. At least that's what I find the most effective. But how am I going to consume this API? Rob Conery 18 Mar 2012 · 6 min read
tekpub My Week With The Hypermedia Cowboys I asked for help with the Alt.Tekpub API from the RESTafari because I grew incredibly weary of the constant talk and Fielding quotes. Here are my results. Rob Conery 13 Mar 2012 · 6 min read
tekpub Moving The Philosophy Into Machinery The Alt.Tekpub site is coming together... all the pieces are starting to play nicely. But I still don't have an API. I have an *idea* what I want to do - but I'm waiting on a few more opinions. Rob Conery 3 Mar 2012 · 2 min read
tekpub Alt.Tekpub: Conceiving a RESTful API Right from the start I've known this application would serve a number of clients over its lifetime: HTML, Single Page JS Apps, and Mobile. How do we lay this thing out? A touchy subject of late, to be sure. Rob Conery 29 Feb 2012 · 6 min read
node NodeJS Callback Conventions and Your App NodeJS has a pretty specific convention when implementing callbacks in modules - function(err,result). Does this always make sense? Rob Conery 25 Feb 2012 · 2 min read
