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New screencast on Koa and Javascript Generators

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Shine Technologies

Senior Consultant Ben Teese recently spoke at MelbJS about a new Javascript language feature that makes asynchronous programming much more straightforward: ES6 generators. The talk focussed on Koa, a next-generation web framework for Node.js that leverages generators to avoid the callback chaos … Continue reading →

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Accessors vs Dirty-checking in Javascript Frameworks

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Shine Technologies

One of the many ways in which EmberJS, AngularJS, and BackboneJS differ is in how they treat their models. AngularJS uses dirty checking on Plain Old Javascript Objects (POJSO); whereas EmberJS and BackboneJS both use accessors (getters and setters) on … Continue reading →

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MelbJS June 2013 Summary

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Shine Technologies

MelbJS held an event last Wednesday, and the turnout was amazing in spite of the dreary weather. If I recall rightly, it was the biggest turnout for this event to date. It must have been the impressive line up of … Continue reading →

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