Cleaning up Boilerplate Backbone Views

Casey Justus Articles, JavaScript Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.“And you think you’re so clever and classless and free.” ― John Lennon One common complaint developers have with Backbone is the proliferation of repetitive …

JavaScript Promises Are Cool

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript 4 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.“And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. Never.” ― Rapunzel Many languages have libraries of interesting schemes called promises, deferreds, …

JAXB – A Newcomer’s Perspective, Part 1

Mark Adelsberger Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I know what a lot of you are already thinking, so let’s get this out of the way: “JAXB? As in XML? Come on, …

Creating Your Own Java Annotations

Jonny Hackett Articles, Java, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.If you’ve been programming in Java and using any one of the popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate, you should be very familiar with using annotations. …

Lessons Learned in Automated Testing

Joshua Robinson Articles, Opinion, Testing 3 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I want to discuss some takeaways from my role as a Quality Assurance (QA) Software Developer. My experiences in QA were two-fold: I started …