Nice weekend

[andrewducker]

I've had a nice relaxing weekend, with the visiting of friends, a bit of tidying, a meal out with Julie, and then an evening learning how Deferred works in jQuery, and being introduced to the Ripple Currency Exchange, which is an absolutely fascinating idea that I suspect would have all sorts of interesting side-effects.

Comments

[emceeaich]

Deferred made my code so much more readable, and the lovely thing is that Backbone.Model.fetch/save/delete/etc and Backbone.Collection.fetch/etc all return JQuery deferred objects.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'm currently thinking of them as being a bit like C# events, while I get my head around what you can and can't do with them. The idea seems rather elegant.

The only thing I'm struggling with is when there's a whole process that occurs between the original trigger and the Deferred being completed - having to store that somewhere and come back to it means managing state in a way that makes me itch slightly.

[emceeaich]

So in the case of Backbone.Model and Collection, any work I'm going to do when the deferred returns would be in the context of that object (like raising events on on the object depending on the return from a sync) so if I keep my context as the object where I'm creating the deferred in, then the object will maintain the portion of state I'm concerned with.