Most Backbone apps require some sort of bootstrapping process to initialize themselves with data, here's how we've been using Deferred objects to make this easier.

If you're like us, Javascript templates are just about your favorite
front end technique that's come into fashion over the past few years.
Templates let you keep markup out of your code and takes all of the
trouble out of building against JSON APIs. There are lots of template
libraries to choose from, but we've most often found ourselves choosing
to work with the offical jQuery templating plugin, jquery-tmpl. Here's
how we optimized it.

jQuery Mobile has proven to be a great tool for rapidly prototyping great looking mobile applications. The latest beta is stable enough to deploy a solid mobile version of most static-content site. However, is it ready for large dynamic, API backed web applications?

Since early implementations of the CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) specification, developers have been eager to drop the JSONP hack in favor of a proper cross-domain request.

CORS means that XHRs are sent with the ORIGIN header, and expect the server to include that ORIGIN (or *) in the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. For requests other than GET and some POST, this is done as a "preflight". The browser/server allow matched requests and the server responds with the cross-domain goodness.

We touched down in San Jose last Friday to attend the annual Bay Area jQuery Conference. It was our second year in attendance and we brought myself (Sam), Collin and Nico. Here's the recap:

A simple plugin to add placeholder text functionality to your text/password fields and textareas.

Take a look at jQuery 1.5's deferred / promise system and give it a try!

What's new in jQuery 1.5, and what does it mean? ( Oh yes, double complete rainbows all the way! )

Over the past few weeks we've released 2 new jQuery plugins, ql_zoom() & ql_galley(). Here's a brief overview.

If you've ever had a problem with maintaining large JavaScript applications that are spread across multiple files, MonkeyFist offers a flexible initialization solution.