JavaScript - Joel McCune

JavaScript

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Getting Started with Grunt

Gruntfile for Getting Started with Grunt

Learning all this Node.js stuff (albeit very,very slowly) means a lot of run, cancel, restart and reload...in addition to all the other things Ishould be doing if learning best practices for web development. As with most things in life and especially development, somebody has already come up

Express & Express CLI Generator Setup at 4.0

This whole Node.js and Express thing, I am pretty new to it. Once I figure out how to get it working, I am sure it is going to be positively outstanding. This part however, is proving to be somewhat difficult since Express recently updated to version 4.x recently.

Yeoman Generator for Bootstrap-Map-JS

Getting started building web mapping applications can be a daunting task at best. In many cases, the recent emergence of generators has greatly lowered the point of entry when getting started with many web frameworks and API's. Unfortunately, when I first started working with the Bootstrap-Map-JS project templates, there was

Kayaking and Coding, they are similar

Yes, I am talking about whitewater kayaking and code slinging. Yes, they are quite similar. What is Joel talking about you say? As both a rookie kayaker and a rookie code slinger, you spend most of your time frustrated, hating life and wondering how the experts make it look so

CodeSchool JavaScript Road Trip

Ask my mother. She will be the first to tell you. I am stubborn. A few years back she told me, "We raised you to be independent, but you really took the concept and ran with it." My mother has a lot more tact than I do. On the good

ArcGIS API for JavaScript Resource Page

Sometimes I work with it more and sometimes less. For the last few months I have been focusing on other things. As a result, I have not been paying as much attention to the updates to the Esri web API's. This morning though, I went to see about finding a

An IDE with code assist for the ArcGIS JavaScript API

For a multitude of reasons, I want to figure out how to work with the ArcGIS JavaScript API. It has to do with mobile devices, lack of need for plugins and mostly because this is the direction the web is going long term. After all, HTML5 really is just a

Use ArcGIS.com to Create Custom JavaScript Web Applications

Esri has released web application builders for both Flash and Silverlight. However, for those wishing to stay away from these plugin dependent solutions, at first glance, it may appear there is little other option than starting from scratch and building an web application from scratch. Fortunately this is not the