Roost Recap

A brain dump of me lerninz at Roost : Boston

Understanding the Building Process

Present highlights from Roost:Boston Present a small web app from start to finish leaveraging the lessons learned from Roost:Boston

Git Establishing a workflow and building in deployment strategies -- BDD for Git: Branch Driven Development -- When to merge and when to rebase -- Master Oz: Don't push the master ... request a pull
Organizing Code Smaller bits are easier to chew -- Insane in the membrain: Comment first then fill in the blanks -- Keep your code contained: It's iffe but just try it -- Modules & Dependencies: AMD and require.js
Debuggin Code Where the *** did we go wrong? -- Where to start: Tips with chrome dev tools -- Simulating safari: Mobile dev use safari's web inspector
Unit Testing Red light! Green light! -- Getting setup: Oh shit! What did you just say?! -- SHIFT: Stop Hacking Instead First Think -- TDD: Test Driven Development
Don't do the Grunt Work Just let Grunt handle it -- Getting setup: Yes! you're in command -- Presents and Packages: How to use packages -- One config to rule them all: And in the darkness lint, test, minify, and bind them.

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