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Jasmine and Jenkins Continuous Integration 28 Jul 2013 | 07:25 am
I use Jasmine as my JavaScript unit/behavior testing framework of choice because it’s elegant and has a good community ecosystem around it. I recently wrote up how to get Jasmine-based autotesting set...
Sencha Con 2013 Wrapup 21 Jul 2013 | 02:02 am
So another great Sencha Con is over, and I’m left to reflect on everything that went on over the last few days. This time was easily the biggest and best Sencha Con that I’ve been to, with 800 people ...
Sencha Con Attendees: I Need You 19 Jul 2013 | 01:08 am
Love working with Sencha frameworks? Want to come work with me on the next generation? I moved on to C3 Energy about a year ago, where we are busily building the operating system for the largest machi...
Sencha Con 2013: Ext JS Performance tips 18 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
Just as with Jacky’s session, I didn’t plan on making a separate post about this, but again the content was so good and I ended up taking so many notes that it also warrants its own space. To save mys...
Sencha Con 2013: Fastbook 18 Jul 2013 | 10:05 pm
I didn’t plan on writing a post purely on Fastbook, but Jacky’s presentation just now was so good I felt it needed one. If you haven’t seen Fastbook yet, it is Sencha’s answer to the (over reported) c...
Sencha Con 2013 Day 1 18 Jul 2013 | 05:02 am
Sencha Con 2013 kicked off today, with some stunning improvements demoed across the product set. I’m attending as an audience member for the first time so thought I’d share how things look from the ch...
Autotesting JavaScript with Jasmine and Guard 14 Jun 2013 | 11:03 pm
One of the things I really loved about Rails in the early days was that it introduced me to the concept of autotest – a script that would watch your file system for changes and then automatically exec...
On Leaving Sencha 28 Jun 2012 | 02:16 am
As some of you may know, I left Sencha last week to move to another startup just up the road in San Mateo. Leaving the company was a hugely difficult thing to do for lots of reasons, some obvious, som...
On Leaving Sencha 27 Jun 2012 | 11:16 pm
As some of you may know, I left Sencha last week to move to another startup just up the road in San Mateo. Leaving the company was a hugely difficult thing to do for lots of reasons, some obvious, som...
Anatomy of a Sencha Touch 2 App 19 Mar 2012 | 11:10 pm
At its simplest, a Sencha Touch 2 application is just a small collection of text files – html, css and javascript. But applications often grow over time so to keep things organized and maintainable we...
