Backbone Double Header!
- October 18, 2012 · 7:00 PM
This month, special guest Pamela Fox will give us an introduction to Backbone and the ways it's being use at coursera.org. Then, our own Brian Mann will talk to us about using Backbone and Marionette to build large scale web apps.
First Talk, Backbone: 3 Ways
Speaker: Pamela Fox
Backbone is one of the most popular MVC frameworks for JavaScript
these days, and one of the reasons for its popularity is that its
minimal and lightweight. That makes it easy to use in different ways
and adapt to different projects - but can also make it hard to learn.
In this talk, I'll start with Backbone basics, and then dive into
three different ways that we use it to power the frontends of
Coursera.org.
Pamela is a graduate from the USC Computer Science Department. While at Google she worked on the widely successful Maps API and the ill-fated Wave API. She is currently working at Coursera to improve online education.
Second Talk, Lessons Learned Using Backbone: Beyond the One-Task App
Speaker: Brian Mann
There are many examples of simple one-task Backbone applications, but few if any explain how to approach building larger scale projects. In this talk you'll learn to bridge the gaps that backbone doesn't solve. You'll also learn about Marionette - a composite framework for building and structuring Backbone applications.
Brian Mann has spent the last year building a large Backbone application using Ruby on Rails. He currently works at InspectAll http://www.inspectall.com, a SaaS web application used to analyze industrial compliance and inspection data.
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Logan Gray
Hi Everyone, It was a extra long meeting - but after a few mishaps, I finally have the video of this October Meeting: Backbone Double Header, up and available on youtube for you to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
enjoy!October 27
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Jeremy McLeod
I just have to say, I'd love to see the kind of development Ogilvy does if it gets me an office up there ;). All joking aside, Pamela Fox's presentation was chock full of really useful information, and though I was hoping for a little more detail in the Marionette discussion (as I'm currently developing a large-scale extensible app built on top of Marionette), it certainly made its case for the framework, and gave me a bit of confidence that I had chosen well. Also, I'm very much looking forward to backbonerails.com really going live.
I really wanted a longer look at Pamela's slides, and luckily for us she's put them up at http://backbone-3ways.appspot.c...
(using the impressive reveal.js ... but speaking of impressive.check out impress.js as well.Thanks for a great meetup, everyone! It was my first time coming and it was a blast.
October 24
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Rob Schlotman
Great show by Atlanta area devs for this one. Nice to hang with everyone and see some well thought out presentations.
October 19
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Marouen
We had TWO freaking awesomeness talks! So I can't say anything less than AWESOME!!! It was great!
October 19
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Brian Fletcher
Thanks again, everyone! We had a blast sharing our space with you. Looking forward to the next one.
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Ferris Thomas
Excellent presos from both and a great space. Thanks to the presenters and Ogilvy.
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Michael Johnson
Awesome presentations! Big thanks to the guys at Ogilvy for having us over. Would have loved to hang at Yard House, but my brain was starting to collect zombies.
October 18
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A former member
"Zombies" was a pretty interesting take; I felt, however, it was a bit of a red herring into M JS. Ogilvy and Pamela were great.
October 18
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Dan Roberts
Thanks Michael and Neil. Us at Ogilvy are glad to have great speakers and such an awesome turnout! We hope we can provide our our space more often.
October 18
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A former member
Pamela Fox had Vitality in her presentation. Backbone.js integrates with many technologies, including those where Models are on the server side. Marionette JS, while having a cool logo and one-liner, was a little bit of a stiff presentation. Some of the "Bad and Ugly" are simply products of the flexibility and size of Backbone.js Marionette JS is really just a logical conclusion of one company after developing in Backbone.js ~ as Pamela said, it's not one size fits all, it's a very simple and strong foundations, complexity simplified is always an innovation. Coursera.com looks like a great solution, with all the fundamentals in place. How's that for a good Router.
October 18
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A former member
I agree with Mike - awesomeness
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