Viewing profile — rmurphey3

Front-End Systems Engineer | Indeed.com | Austin, TX or Seattle, WA (ONSITE) Join a small, talented team that’s focused on radically changing how we approach front-­end application…

Comments like this make me so excited to write more posts. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. Look for it in a future version!

I won't address the rest of your comments, but please note that I said "tools like UglifyJS or Closure Compiler" -- if the RoR asset pipeline is taking care of this for you, then g…

My fear with doing that is that if the functions file is separated from the tests file, then it becomes difficult to see at a glance what the function needs to do in order to make …

I definitely want to add more tests to the set -- if you have ideas for other tests, please open an issue or a pull request on the repo!

Thanks for the great feedback -- it occurred to me that people could simply hard-code the "right" answers into their function. However, if I am using this to assess a candidate, I …

The exact set of skills that one needs in order to do one's job will of course vary from person to person. What I have tried to point out in this post is that these topics are ones…

I hope I gave due credit to the possibility that part of what's changed is me when I said in the next sentence: "Maybe it’s the result of people starting to take front-end dev seri…

You are right, all of this can be done via makefile ... assuming you know how to set up a makefile and take the time to do so. Part of the goal of grunt, as I understand it, is to …

Much love for Alex Russell and for efforts to move the web forward as a serious development platform, but this was among the more content-free stories I've read in a long time. If …

Yes, the point of the post was that it had a lot more to do with being a kid with a computer than with being male or female. The point of the title was that it was a story of ... a…

It would have been great to see these improvements contributed back to PhoneGap/Cordova, which has an extremely permissive license and whose code is open-source. As it is, trigger.…

I saw a presentation on Enyo at CapitolJS, where I also announced that Toura would be open-sourcing Mulberry, and indeed, there are a lot of similarities. I too would like to get s…

Basically, Toura Mulberry uses PhoneGap as a wrapper around a "single-page" application that's powered by the Mulberry JavaScript/HTML/CSS framework. The command-line tools in Mulb…

I learned a whole lot about Carl Fisher researching my Modern JavaScript presentation for JSConf ( http://blip.tv/jsconf/jsconf2011-rebecca-murphey-5478159 & http://www.slideshare.…

There is a screencast demo at http://toura.github.com/mulberry/ -- the code has not yet been released (soon!) so there unfortunately isn't yet any demo code to share, but a demo wi…

In a nutshell, Mulberry is more opinionated than Sencha -- by being opinionated, it makes it much easier to get an app up and running without worrying about the underlying architec…

There is a total of 387k of JS (minified and excluding phonegap.js), but it's important to remember that all of the JS is shipped as part of the native app, so it all lives on devi…

Since this was a rewrite of a system that just consumed the output of the CMS, the migration was not awful. One day, we just started exporting the new data format and using the new…