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Rebecca Murphey's Talks
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Beyond the DOM: Sane Structure for JS Apps
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
June 28, 2012 9:30 AMIn the bad old days of JavaScript, our days were spent fighting through a thicket of DOM differences. These days, we've pretty much conquered those challenges thanks to tools such as jQuery, but our new challenge is figuring out how to adapt as more and more of our application logic moves fr…
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The New Baseline for Front-End Developers
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
June 14, 2012 5:20 AMOnce upon a time, editing files, testing them locally (as best as we could, anyway), and then FTPing them to the server was the essential workflow of a front-end dev. We measured our mettle based on our ability to wrangle IE6 into submission or achieve pixel perfection across browsers. Many …
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Lessons from a Rewrite
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
July 9, 2011 10:00 AMIn late 2010, Toura Mobile had developed a PhoneGap-based platform for creating content-rich mobile applications, and customers were buying. The problem was that customers were also asking for more and more complex features, and Toura was rapidly discovering that their platform was more of a…
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Lessons from a Rewrite
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
June 11, 2011 9:40 AMIn late 2010, Toura Mobile had developed a PhoneGap-based platform for creating content-rich mobile applications, and customers were buying. The problem was that customers were also asking for more and more complex features, and Toura was rapidly discovering that their platform was more of a…
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Retooling Your Workflow
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
November 13, 2010 9:30 AMAre you handling client communication with email, updating your clients’ sites with FTP, making manual backups when you think of it, and crossing your fingers that everything gets done and nothing breaks? I’ve been there, and I’m here to tell you: it doesn’t have to be that way. In this talk…
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Beyond the DOM: Functionality-Focused Code Organization
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
October 16, 2010 1:15 PMThe magic of jQuery's CSS-based selection makes it easy to think about our code in terms of the DOM, and sometimes that approach is exactly right. Other times, though, what we're trying to accomplish is only tangentially related to our nodes, and opting for an approach where we think in term…
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The jQuery Divide
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
September 25, 2010 12:30 PMProject managers, bosses, and teams are picking jQuery as their go-to JavaScript library at an ever-increasing pace. Nobody wants to choose a loser, and as demonstrated by super-meaningful Google graphs and surveys that count my grandfather's blog alongside leading web sites, jQuery is leavi…
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Dojo Confessions
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
February 27, 2010 9:40 AMI’ve been using, teaching, and evangelizing about jQuery for years. The library's simplicity is seductive; after a while, it kind of writes itself. So why did I venture into the unknown world of Dojo for a recent project? Find out what I learned about JavaScript code organization, inheritanc…
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Using Objects to Organize Your Code
Rebecca Murphey 84 Recommendations
September 13, 2009 10:45 AMWhen you move beyond simple snippets of jQuery and start developing more complex user interactions and applications, your code can quickly become unwieldy and difficult to debug. This talk will show you how to start thinking about your code in terms of the bits of behavior it comprises, and …