Programming

A couple of weeks ago, I returned home from another amazing week in Portland attending EmberConf. This was my second straight year attending the conference and it lived up to each and every one of my high expectations set from last years experience. I cannot give enough praise to Leah and the people behind the scenes who put in all the work to flawlessly assemble such a massive event. Among all of the interactions, talks, and technical discussions, one of my biggest takeaways was actually something that turns out to be quite small but has paid off tremendously for all of my Ember applications. I was a developer who would simply live on the latest Ember Release build and just update as needed when the next minor release version was tagged. ...

So I just finished reading the Road to Ember 2.0 RFC which highlights the latest proposed updates for the next major version release - Ember 2.0. For those unfamiliar, the Ember <abbrtitle="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> process is intended to provide a controlled pipeline for new features to enter the framework. This is vital tool where the entire community comes together to provide important and transparent feedback for individual feature proposals. ...

I recently read an interesting article by Mark Przepiora titled Ember.js Recipes: Checkboxable Index Pages Using itemController. Mark makes several good points regarding the logical separation between controllers and models in Ember. He shows how to identify use cases when it’s appropriate to leverage an itemController to wrap each item in a collection. Here is his demo which shows a simple implementation for a UI structure with a list of checkbox items and a delete button. ...