In 2010, while working for our mutual former employer, Jonathan Sharp started working on a small library to mock Ajax calls made through jQuery in order to better test front end JavaScript code. Since then, fifty different people have contributed to jQuery Mockjax to make it one of the simplest tools for mocking out HTTP calls from JavaScript. I took over primary maintenance of the library earlier this year while working at appendTo; however, as of last Friday, October 17, 2014, ownership...
The existence of a server does not determine the success of your front end testing strategy.
That is the basis, a thesis almost, for the rest of this post. The fact is that of the few of you actually doing front end testing, most are doing so with the "help" of a testing server that provides data from some pre-filled database. This is wrong.
This may not sit well with any of you, but my guess is that if you're reading this post, then you are...
I'm trying to change the world - a goal my wife has always aspired to, but which I've only recently thought about in earnest. Crazy you say? Perhaps...
I attend a fair number of conferences and usergroups - large and small, near and far - and generally speaking I get a lot out of them professionally. That's not only from a technical perspective, but also in terms of professional connections and conversations. A few weeks ago I was in Miami for the SunshinePHP conference...
I've been doing a fair amount of work on Windows 8 native applications lately, working with the Windows and WinJS JavaScript namespaces. Contrary to what a lot of people may say – including me from time to time – I have enjoyed much of that work. There are serious issues that the Microsoft team needs to work on (testing, the hamstrung webview, the structure of the syntax, etc), but it's certainly a nice direction to be headed for a core web developer like myself.
I've...
I was walking back to my car from dinner tonight, just strolling along and enjoying the crisp, cold evening and chatting with my wife about errands to run, plans to make, and pets to get home to. The night wasn't exceptional in any meaningful way. As we stood on the sidewalk about to part ways - we had driven there separately - a man walked by.
I told my wife I would see her at home and I caught up to him. He was strolling slowly so this wasn't difficult. I asked if he...