Quick Links - April 17 2013 C# Intro

Hey All,

Two quick links for the day both from the same author.

• An advanced introduction to C#
• Mastering C#

The posts serve as an introduction to C# for experienced developers of other languages such as C or Java .  Good stuff in here and can be used as a simple C# reference as well.

Enjoy!

Backbone.js Link Collection

Backbone.js Link Collection

Here's a list of some great Backbone.js resources.

• Developing Backbone.js Applications (Great Resource)
• Backbone.js Tutorial
• Getting to Know Backbone.js
• Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial
• Sample Mobile App with Backbone.js and PhoneGap (Follow Up To Above +PhoneGap)
• Backbone.js: Internals Summary
• Baby Steps to Backbone.js: Model Validation
• Baby steps to Backbone.js: Exploring collections
• Baby steps to Backbone.js: Exploring collections. Part 2
• 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup
• The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js
• Searching With A BackboneJS Collection
• Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element
• Get A Model From A Backbone Collection Without Knowing If The Collection Is Loaded
• Backbone - Introduction & Views (Screen Cast)

The items in the list range from introductions to tips and tricks as well as an article on using Backbone.js with PhoneGap to create some great cross-platform apps in HTML5.

Hoping to have another piece up on converting Messages and Reminders up soon.  This time focusing on server sync.

Enjoy!

Coffeemarklet - A Neat Little Web App for Developing Bookmarklets in Coffeescript

Coffeemarklet - A Neat Little Web App for Developing Bookmarklets in Coffeescript

Here's a neat little web app for developing bookmarklets in Coffeescript.  It's not really a fully featured development environment or anything but it does the job.

Just enter some CoffeeScript into the text box, click Generate Bookmarklet and your done.  Has an option to include jQuery as well which is a convenient feature.

I've been looking to add bookmarklets as part of a couple of projects so this was a really good find for me.

Enjoy!

Quick Links - April 10 2013 Coffeescript and Backbone.js

Hey figured I better put a post up since I've been slacking lately.  Here's a couple of interesting finds:

• Mixins in Coffeescript
• CoffeeScript vs. TypeScript
• Backbone Tutorials

The first post is a discussion on using Mixins with Coffeescript as well as a couple of example implementations.

The second is a presentation on Coffeescript vs Typescript highlighting some of the differences and similarties, pros v cons, etc.  I added this as I hope to begin using TypeScript on some pet projects and plan on doing a post on it soon.

The third are some backbone tutorials, mostly simple stuff but some interesting none the less, looking to up the Backbone.js content on here so I figured this would be a good start.

Have a post coming on using Backbone.js sync soon, showing how to interact with RESTful web service from Backbone.

Enjoy!

Quick Links - March 13 2013 More Literate Coffeescript and 2000 C# Things

Hey all a couple of interesting finds for the day:

• Journo & Literate Coffeescript
• 2,000 Things You Should Know About C#

The first link is a blog post from Jeremy Ashkenas about Literate Coffeescript.  Why it was added to the project and what he hopes it will help accomplish.  It also discusses briefly and links to a blog platform written in Literate Coffeescript called Journo.  If you are interested in Literate Coffeescript I highly recommend reading the post and reviewing the source.

The second is a blog I've been following for a bit and have been reading through frequently as of late, 2000 Things You Should Know About C#.  He's not quite at 2000 things yet but Sean Sexton has some great little nuggets of information on this blog.  There's quit a bit of simple and straight forward stuff here but it's great for reviewing C# concepts and ideas.

Source Maps in Coffeescript 1.6.1

Source Maps in Coffeescript 1.6.1

As a follow up to my previous post on the subject, I'm pleased to let my readers know that source maps are now available in Coffeescript 1.6.1 and up.

This is a big step forward in debugging for Coffeescript.   To create a source map along with your compiled javascript, simply use the --map or -m option when compiling.   Currently,  Chrome and nightly WebKit builds are the only browsers to support source maps.  To enanble source maps, open the developer tools in Chrome and click on the gear icon in the lower right corner, this will give you the settings dialog.  In settings set "Enable Source Maps" to on(checked).

Source maps are also available for Node.js.  For more information on Node source maps please see this post.

For more infomation on source maps, see this HTML5 Rocks tutorial.

Quick Links - February 25 2013 Coffeescript and Web Essentials

Hey all a couple of interesting finds for the day:

• Coffeescript 1.5 now featuring literate programming 
• Web Essentials 2012.2 

The first link is to the change log for Coffeescript which is up to v 1.5.  I usually don't post about version changes but in this particular update they have added literate programming features, which I'm not overly familiar with but seems really cool.

The second is a link talking about Web Essentials 2012.2.  I took a Microsoft course over the weekend and it inspired me to drop that here.

Enjoy