Phillip Whisenhunt is a Software Engineer and Entrepreneur living and playing in beautiful Austin, TX where he is building high performant front-ends. He’s worked in a number of different areas, from Biometrics research to visualizing Genomes over the Web. You can follow him on twitter or read his blog.
Backbone.js is a popular open-source JavaScript “MV” framework that has gained significant traction since its first release a little over three years ago. Although Backbone.js provides structure to JavaScript applications, it leaves a lot of design patterns and decisions up to the developer, for better or worse, and developers run into many common problems when they first begin developing in Backbone.js.
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