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Orizen Designs – Oren Farhi – Javascript Blog, Backbone Blog, HTML5, CSS3

Backbone.Router is one of the most useful objects in Backbone.
It just has the right concept for managing url based navigation with an easy configuration setup. However, beyond being a great routing manager, it has an important role in MVC architecture when creating Backbone based applications. In this post we’ll explore the Router object and its important role. Read the rest of this entry »

I returned home about two weeks ago from Appsworld conference in London. I gave my known talk about developing javascript based application with Backbone.js, Require.js – incorporating the Angry Birds game as a Demo.
This is a summary of my talk and my experience. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a short post/link for Backbone.Safe – a new open source plugin for Backbone.js.
Backbone.Safe lets you save Backbone’s models and collection to the local storage with an ease.
Check out how to. Read the rest of this entry »

Backbone.View is a very useful javascript class when it comes to rendering data and attach a behavior to DOM elements. Today, I cannot imagine front end javascript code without some kind of a view class.
Often, I tend to keep my views as small as possible. Sometimes it is hard to determine what is a view and how to break big chunk of data to smaller views. In this post I want to point out some useful cases where it is beneficial to use “sub-views” and the benefits of such methodology. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a link to an interview with me about the what javascript brings to the html5 & css3 world. This interview is conducted prior to my upcoming talk at apps world 2012 convention at London – in the html5 track sessions.