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webOS Workshop Tech Talk posted
edit Posted by Davis W. Frank on Thursday February 18, 2010 at 10:29PM

As promised, the video from the webOS Workshop we held on January 23rd is posted on our talks page.

It's full of tips & tricks for developing webOS applications, including a live "pairing" session with the audience.

Slides (such as they are) are posted here.

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What's so funny 'bout pseudo-classical inheritance (in JavaScript)?
edit Posted by Davis W. Frank on Monday February 15, 2010 at 05:17PM

Our customers are asking for richer interfaces and user experiences. And so we - and by "we" I mean the Rails development community - are writing more and more JavaScript. We've gone from ignoring JS (using RJS server-side) to rendering JSON and writing our own jQuery plugins.

But in this transition some of us left our objects & design patterns on the server. Just because you're writing a click handler in JavaScript doesn't mean it couldn't, or shouldn't, be a method on an object.