As a follow-up to the article i shared before, here’s another interview with Jonathan Ive.
Apple’s Jonathan Ive in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter
This guy is just fucking amazing.
If you are into Game of Thrones and as excited as i am for the upcoming season, you should definitely watch this behind the scenes look of the production. How they handle a team of over 1’000 people and shoot with two complete setups simultaneously in different countries to create this epic show just blows my mind.
And – if you’re not interested in GoT, but in WordPress – you should watch it too because they were shooting in Seville, Spain this year and you get a nice little teaser of what’s waiting for us in June at WordCamp Europe.
Can’t wait for both season 5 to start and to meet you all in Seville!
Such a beautiful craft.
Something funny for your weekend. Enjoy!
I like TED Talks. And i liked this one in particular. You should watch it, too.
Creative exhaust, the power of being open by default: Brad Frost at TEDxGrandviewAve
Just stumbled upon this music video from the Correspondents. Never heard of them before, but like them. Go watch it and have a good start into the new year!
While the video intro i shared yesterday gives a nice overview to some basics of Backbone.js, it left many things untouched and unfortunately the code examples weren’t really complete which made it hard to follow along.
Luckily i found this other talk by Nick Gauthier which goes a lot more into detail but is still very understandable, even if you’re just starting out with JS. The talk starts with a short theory part, which really helped me finally grasp some of the basic concepts behind Backbone. After that he demonstrates everything in a practical hands-on coding example, which is very easy to follow and well explained.
If you want to learn some more about Backbone.js, you should definitely watch this.
The presentation slides and source Code can be found here.
He also wrote/co-wrote two Ebooks, “Mobile Web Patterns with Backbone.js” and “Recipes with Backbone“, which i will keep an eye on and intend to read right after i finished Addy Osmani’s “Developing Backbone.js Applications“.
After several not so successful attempts to understand Backbone.js by just staring at the code in WordPress Core that makes up the Media Uploader, i decided it is time to jump in and learn some more about it from scratch. It’s pretty overwhelming at first, especially if your JavaScript knowledge is only basic, which is one thing i’d like to change this year.
I might share some of the best tutorials and introductions i found useful along my way in a later post, but for now here’s a good short video introduction to the basics of Backbone.js by Sidney Maestre that i just found:
John Cleese talks about how the ability to switch between the “open” and “closed” mindset can help us be more creative. Great Talk!