... Backbone.js is basically an uber-light framework that allows you to structure your Javascript code in an MVC (Model, View, Controller) fashion where... Model is part of your code that retrieves and populates the data, View is the HTML repres...

...browsers, doing so with older web browsers may not work as expected, or at all. Alternatively, an XHR request to your own server isn't that bad of a method for testing your connectivity. Considering one of the other answers state that there are too many points of failure for an XHR, if your XHR is ...

...those will cause the service to load an additional assembly which is not really needed for the type of application you are building. Use System.Timers.Timer like the following example (also, make sure that you use a class level variable to prevent garbage collection, as stated in Tim Robinson's ans...

...than Alex's solution and four times faster than Mark's solution. Thanks to all for your answers! – Barthelemy Mar 31 '10 at 20:44 2 ...

...div style="clear:both;"></div> which will extend #container vertically to contain both side floats instead of taking its height only from #center and possibly allowing the sides to protrude out the bottom. share ...

... git remote prune origin, as suggested in the other answer, will remove all such stale branches. That's probably what you'd want in most cases, but if you want to just remove that particular remote-tracking branch, you should do: git branch -d -r origin/coolbranch (The -r is easy to forget...)...

... All containers offer a reversed view of their content with rbegin() and rend(). These two functions return so-calles reverse iterators, which can be used like normal ones, but it will look like the container is actually rever...

...ated unexpectedly, it makes sense to halt execution by throwing -- I personally would not use exceptions in the place of assertions. Here's why: As others have said, assertions should document situations that are impossible, in such a manner that if the allegedly impossible situation comes to pass,...

... Following options enable logging of all communication to the console (technically, you only need one of these, but that depends on the libraries you use, so setting all four is safer option). You can set it in the code like in example, or as command line parame...

... I think I have summarized all your questions, if I missed something please let me know (If you could summarize up all your questions in one place would be nice =)) Note. Compatibility with the ko.editable plug-in added Download the full code How do yo...