Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Single-Page Apps as part of our biweekly Tech Talk series at Airbnb HQ in San Francisco. Here’s links to the slides and a video of the full presentation and Q&A session:

By Harrison Shoff

Check it out on Github: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript

Everyone writes JavaScript a little differently. We finally decided it was time that we got together and agree on how we write JavaScript.

By Harrison Shoff

A little while ago, Jonathan Cutrell opened an interesting issue about immediate-invoked function expressions (IIFEs) on our JavaScript style guide:

Life before frontend integration testing meant clicking links and buttons and testing everything by hand before launching any feature change. But as every programmer knows, insanity is doing the same thing…

In a previous blog post, we discussed our path to upgrading to Rails 3.0 from Rails 2.3. At the time, a number of comments asked about our upgrade path from 1.8.7 to 1.9.3. We waited until the Rails 3.0 upgrade was complete…