…focused on learning the router, basic application structure and conventions, Ember's MVC, the Ember Object Model, and finishing off the day with a basic intro to Ember Data and (of course) some useful debugging techniques.
As we've had a lot of inquiries about the beginners day coverage, we'll lay out the full lesson plan here next week.
Intermediate — May 19
Tireless elves are still working on our day two syllabus, but as a preview we'll be continuing our coverage …
- Giles Bowkett: A Philosophical Distinction Between Backbone And Ember
- Luke Melia: Using Ember.js with jQuery UI
- Andrzej on Software: Angular or Ember? Congratulations, you've already won.
- Signal vs. Noise: The App Store: Quality control without the quality
- mir.aculo.us: Client-side MVC is not a silver bullet
- » Product Launch Blog: Internet, Email, Blogs, Forums ... did we need twitter?
…injection in Ruby and discuss how DCI could be used to supplement Rails' MVC paradigm.
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Pub
The talks usually finish up around 8pm, but that's not the end of the meeting! We continue at The Slaughtered Lamb which is about 5 minutes away. Attendance at the talks is not a requirement on coming to the pub, so if you can't …
- Rails Underground: Notes
- Hobo Blog: What belongs in the model?
- Robby on Rails: Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #101
…like to discuss generating and organizing views. MVC in iOS is a little different from MVC in Ruby on Rails, in that views are a little more tightly coupled to the controller. View elements are ultimately defined and positioned in the controller. Those elements will rely on methods which should be defined in the controller as they deal with event handling and navigation. Let's take a simple example. I want a screen to have a table and when I tap a row I want to navigate to another screen. …
- Signal vs. Noise: Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion
- Merbist: MacRuby on iOS - RubyMotion review
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #987
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Development News Roundup for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
- Fingertips: Functional View and Controller testing with RubyMotion
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Laurent Sansonetti of RubyMotion fame to speak at BubbleConf 2012
…web browsers are. At that point, API providers and API consumers could start using hypermedia principles to build APIs for those who aren't interested in the mechanics of hypermedia.
Until then, it seems to me that putting hypermedia principles front-and-center is suboptimal. It's akin to telling someone who wants to use your website that they need to understand MVC patterns first. It's only going to discourage and confuse them.
- Ruby Inside: A Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for July 2012 in 97 Links
- Global Nerdy: The Road to MIX
- paperplanes: Web Operations 101 For Developers
- igvita.com: 0-60: Deploying Goliath on Heroku Cedar
- Ruby-coloured glasses: Adding custom HTTP headers to soap4r request
- Heroku: Password Hijacking Security Incident and Response
Sails.js - MVC framework for node.js.
GitLab 5.0 Release, Standing on Its Own Two Feet - If you want to host your own git server, this is a good choice.
Great Workflows to Help You Get More Done With Alfred 2.0 - Lots of goodies here.
Web Font Rendering Experiment - Pages displaying all the default and common browser fonts at various sizes for reference.
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud
- Luigi Montanez: On Starting a Startup
- Article RSS Feed: April 2013 Meeting
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for June 7th
- Nikos D.: Breadcrumbs on Rails
- Zen and the Art of Programming: Padrino: a Ruby framework built upon Sinatra
…Ember's " MVC" is a port of Rails's " MVC" with a much less elegant API.
Rails's " MVC" is not really MVC at all. Rails sometimes uses controllers as something not very far from classic OOP controllers, but it also uses them very frequently as a data store for its so-called "views," which are really templates being processed in a PHP-like way. (And Rails helpers serve a similar namespacing function.)
If you want data …
- Ruby Inside: The Past 2 Weeks in Ruby: 1.9.3-p286, JRuby 1.7RC2, Sidekiq Pro and Much More
- CRAZ8: 3 Free Rails Performance Features
- New Relic: Rails Machine Adds APM from New Relic to its App Management Platform for Rails
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Rails SQL injection vulnerability: hold your horses, here are the facts
- David Chelimsky: rspec-2.12 is released
- Kalzumeus Software: What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup
We started with MVC in mind. The most basic rule of MVC is that when the model changes, the views are notified about it. After some time, we've realised that it's not only about views, unless you try to fit "playing sounds" into the View layer ;)
In a hexagonal architecture, GUI is just one of the adapters. It's usually the most important one, but technically, still, just an adapter.
In many apps, the GUI is the only adapter.
ServerSideAdapter, PusherAdapter…
- Andrzej on Software: Angular or Ember? Congratulations, you've already won.
…code, the terminal and browser. Throughout the day the students learned about Rails' MVC structure, scaffolding, database migrations, and frontend development. In the end, the new developers had a functioning application that helped them track their ideas and upload related photos.
Chris Kelly coaching at Rails Girls SF © Jessica Allen
The event also included talks from coaches along with exercises that exposed the attendees to the wide world of the Ruby web development …
- Plataformatec Blog: Eager loading for greater good
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1033
- Heroku: Sunsetting the Argent Aspen Stack
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rubinius 2.0-rc1, Rake 10, Refactoring video, Passenger 4.0 supports JRuby, and more
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This Week in Open Source
- Giles Bowkett: A Simple Protocol For "You Are Not Your Code"
A "Free" online course: Sinatra 101
R ubyLearning announces the tenth batch of its "Free" online " Sinatra 101 " course starting from Saturday 2nd Mar. 2013 .
Sinatra - quickly create tiny web apps and services
What's Sinatra?
Sinatra is a micro-framework for quickly creating tiny web-applications and small services in Ruby. It is not a Model-View-Controller ( MVC) based framework.
Please read - Sinatra, a Ruby web framework, and Why it Matters .
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Video: Sinatra at Boston.rb, part 2
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more
- Dead Programmer Society: LARubyConf 2009 - Blake Mizerany - "Sinatra: the Ultimate Rack Citizen"
- Rails Inside: Dragonfly: Image Handling For Champions
- The "Tech. Arch.": Leverage Twitter Features In Your Ruby Application With Twitter4R
- UK Specialists in Ruby on Rails, Exalead, AWS, Consultancy - Blog: Revisited: Tamper-proof cookies in Rails 3
…to be a good way to inject our new backend into this controller (if we're looking at this from MVC). Yes, we could explicitly pick our backend and run that directly with our tests, but now we've inverted our API; the UI is no longer a detail of the controller, it's the primary interface with which we access the program logic. In other words, instead of asking the Controller setup the View, we're asking the View to setup the Controller.
A different transport backend …
- Global Nerdy: Ignite Your Coding: This Afternoon with Glenn Block!
- CaelumObject Developers' Blog: REST and Web development: new VRaptor and Restfulie releases
- DevInterface Blog: Ruby Enumerables: Hashes
- A Fresh Cup: One- and Two-Letter Gems
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: Think First, Code Later
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Movin' and Shakin'