Part 1 of a series of posts on various notes and primary takeaways from the book Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience focusing on Core Elements, Assumptions, and Hypotheses.

Strucuturing large scale client-side apps is itself a challenge. Another challenge can be determining when models and view should be initialized or when views should be rendered. This post addresses these questions with a few of my best practices.

Quick re-introduction of the much snappier, serverless Marky Markdown previewer

Overview of the talks I attended at PyCon 2013

Marky is Web-based Markdown previewer that updates as you type.

This an update and enhancement to Async UIs with Backbone to return deferred object when an async request is added to the queue, but has not necessarily been sent yet.

What is necessary for taking data about data and using it to drive data discovery? Context.

Simplify creating JavaScript rendered charts using Backbone and Highcharts.

The very nature and purpose of a Web application is to be responsive and reduce the burden on the end-user of the request/response cycle. Cross-browser DOM libraries, such as jQuery, have made it perceivable to take on building JavaScript-heavy client-side apps. But even then, the overhead required to make the user experience decent with the previous generation's JavaScript engines was quite a tall order for the sole developer.