This site is by no means the definitive guide to backbone.js and all corrections and contributions are welcome.

Eldarion is built on open source and its team members are core developers of a range of open source projects including Python, Django, Pinax and many individual Django apps.
Wherever possible, we open source components of our web sites and love working with clients that allow us to open source parts of our work for them.
Here are some of our open source reusable Django apps that have come out of our site development work:

Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I quickly took a moment to write down some suggestions into my moleskine to prepare myself. Things I witnessed in our company and things I noticed in other startups.

That “some suggestions” became a full page and that full page became a monster that had almost no free white space left. It was so full of stuff we did, it was ludicrous. It was dark like the night and microscribbled as if I hated that poor moleskine page.

My message at the panel was simple: “Don’t be a first time founder…” – or at least not the kind of first time founder I used to be ;)

After a gentle push by Rob and Sal I decided to share those first time founder mistakes we did publicly. I hope you can learn a thing or or two (to avoid) from this. If you have been through your first startup maybe you see yourself in some of them as well :)

Though it's not widely known, you can write native-feeling iOS apps for the iPhone and iPad in JavaScript (+ HTML and CSS).

In this article, I'll explain how to:

strip away the browser chrome (the url bar and button bar);
prevent viewport scrolling and scaling;
respond to multi-touch and gesture events;
use webkit CSS to get the iPhone OS look and feel;
cache the app so it runs without internet access;
get a custom icon on the home screen; and
have a splash screen load at the start.

We're going to teach you how to build your first Ruby web application in 3 minutes and deploy it live to the internet. Don't worry, you won't have to install or setup anything. We'll take care of all those pesky little details: Ruby, Rails, Git, Gems, configuring SSH keys, and deploying your application to a server.

This blog post is about building your application in two distinct layers: a HTTP RESTful API and a web frontend. This technique is not new and I am not the first developer to build a web application with this model. However, this is the first time I have built an application this way, and I want to share my experience.

Touchy goes beyond just an HTML/CSS template, adding performance optimization tools, hardware accelerated animation, device API, fixed positioning and much more so you can really rock the mobile web.

I'm just getting started with Ruby so please forgive the possibly noobish question. The webapp I'm trying to develop is currently based on sinatra and I'm not sure what the best way to implement secure login feature is. I've found this: [1] http://rubygems.org/gems/sinatra-security project which seems good but it isn't listed on the [2] official sinatra extensions site so I'm not sure if it's legit.

Entrepreneurs are always looking for an easy way to make a big PR splash.  If you are a local business that only serves a specific geographic area, then your local newspaper is still probably your best option for some free publicity.  On the other hand, if you offer a product or service that is available in multiple locations or via the Internet, then you must consider the following websites in which to submit your company to, and gain free publicity.

So you have a new startup company and want some coverage. This post will give you 36 places where you can submit your startup for reviews, mentions or at least some backlinks.

My goal here is to have a walk through the lower layers of the Tornado asynchronous web server. I take a bottom-up approach, starting with the polling loop and going up to the application layer, pointing out the interesting things I see on my way.So if you plan on reading the source code of the Tornado web framework, or you are just curious to see how an asynchronous web server works, I would love to be your guide.After reading this, you will:be able to write the server part of Comet applications, even if you have to do it from scratchhave a better understanding of the Tornado web framework, if you plan do develop on ithave a bit more informed opinion in the tornado-twisted debate

If you start writing an application using Backbone.js and Coffeescript as we did recently, you’ll quickly discover that they are both great tools. However, what you may not notice right away if you’re new to Coffeescript is that there are certain parts of Backbone’s example Todos application that become unnecessary or clunky if translated verbatim to CoffeeScript. Following are a few little things that we found made our code a bit more concise.