Boris Smus

smus.com

Personal site of Boris Smus — essays on software and interaction design, projects, and notes on the books he reads.

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Backbone vs Ember

2012147 points40 comments Software Engineering details

Ember and Backbone are both promising JavaScript frameworks but have completely different philosophies. In this post, I'll compare the two, both from a practical and philosophical perspective. I'll defer to real world experience with Backbone and SproutCore (Ember's predecessor), as well as basic experiments with…

Developing Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Node.js

2011108 points17 comments Software Engineering details

Introducing osmus, a multiplayer HTML5 game written with web sockets, canvas and a game engine that runs shared code on the client and server.