Highcharts Beyond-Extremes Plugin

Its been awhile since I've posted anything here. I'll spare you the excuses. I'm still working on the Firebase-Marionette tutorial, and its coming along nicely...but slowly. As I've alluded to previously, the main project I'm currently working on is an energy/building performance application. One of the requirements is…

Real-Time Web App Notifications via Firebase and MarionetteJS

The Problem Recently at work we had the need for a real-time notification system. When an event in our system fires, our users need to be alerted live and be able to clear the notifications when they'be been addressed. The problem is that we're a small shop under a…

Modification to my Marionette Module Minions

The Background In a previous post I talked about how to make MarionetteJS modules into little reusable apps for use within your big app. However, whilst using this at work I realized that there was something missing. The Problem One of the ways I'm using modules like this is with…

Passing Arguments to Runscript in Django-Extensions

Background Django-Extensions is a nifty little django application that comes with some really useful convenience features.  The one I use the most is "runscript." It sets up the Django environment and runs your python script in it so that you don't have to worry about importing all of…

Making Marionette Modules into My Minions

The Background I’ve been using MarionetteJS for about 3-4 weeks now and absolutely love it.  It has cut down on almost all of the boilerplate I had written with straight Backbone.  However, with Marionette Modules I find myself right back in that same old familiar spot…

Monkies for Ponies: CSRF, Django, Require (and Backbone/Marionette)

The Background I'm a front end developer on a very small team in a very large multi-national company.  By necessity, I have to be able to provide my own server.  Sometimes that means just passing on some json requests, and sometimes it means building a complex calculation engine…