Meta Refresh 2014

At the end of the workshop, the attendees will be able to:

• Understand the concept of client side MVC and its design pattern
• Implement a fairly complex MVC app using BackboneJS
• Create a dynamic Pinterest-like user interface

Outline

During the workshop, we shall create something that looks like http://shopsocially.com/community/Burpee

Following concepts will be demonstrated while doing:

• Dividing the code into Router, Models and Views
• Handling nested views
• Working with Collection of models
• Handling DOM events within a view
• Raising and capturing custom events
• Getting data from server via ajax calls
• Dynamically creating HTML and attaching it to DOM
• Using Javascript templates
• Simplifying Javascript coding using Coffeescript

Requirements

Logistics:

• The participants must bring the laptop with Firefox browser installed.
• Firebug browser plugin should also be installed in Firefox.
• Internet connection will also be required for including library and making ajax calls.

Pre-requisite:

• The participants should have good understanding of Javascript, HTML DOM manipulation via Javascript and basics of event handling in Javascript.
• Knowledge of Cofeescript is a plus

Speaker bio

With 15+ years of industry experience, I am currently consulting a few startups on technical and product management side.

Most of the time I worked with product start-ups in various roles spanning across different departments including development, testing, release management, training, customer support, product management and digital marketing.

Wi-Fi security leader AirTight Networks and Social Shopping pioneer ShopSocially are the notable companies I worked full time. I joined both the companies at their conceptualization stage and worked with them till they became stable.

Links

• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mathurakshay
• Blogs: http://facebook-programming.blogspot.in, http://learningsofakshay.blogspot.in/
• Quora: http://www.quora.com/Akshay-Mathur
• Github: https://github.com/mathurakshay
• Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/AkshayMathur7