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ember and electron: a winning combination

I've been playing around with the Electron framework, formerly known as Atom Shell. It's a tool based on Chromium and io.js that allows you to build cross-platform desktop applications in JavaScript, and is most famously used as the framework for the Atom text editor as well as the Slack team messaging application. While Apple, Google and Microsoft all offer intriguing platforms and lots of cool features, there was something I needed to build quickly and didn't have the time or resources to find native OS X/Windows developers in which to help me complete it. So I turned to the tools I know best: JavaScript and, especially, Ember.js.

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a new year, a new blog

Well it's been a little over two years since I last completely reconfigured this blog, and now that it actually (mostly) works I felt like it would be fun to take a little tour of the more interesting features of this blog. The current iteration of the blog is written in Ember.js, and the entire blog application lives on your browser, hosted via Amazon's CDN. This post explains how I built a pseudo-static web site with Ember and Ember Data.

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the shape of web uis to come

Recently, I've been very interested in the development of the Ember.js framework, which has grown rapidly in the 3 years or so that I've known it. We've seen great apps being made with (most of) it, and it's gone from something that left me truly puzzled into an understandable and almost indispensable tool in my web development arsenal. While developing a Backbone app, I took a second look at Ember after they released their new routing API, and fell in love with how little code I wrote while developing a simple application. But the way that Ember worked flies in the face with one of my other favorite tools...

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