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"Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack."

"While it is true that many of the functions not provided by Backbone itself could be filled by third-party plugins, this also means that there are many choices to be made when creating an application, as many functions have several alternative plugins. For example, nested models can be provided by Backbone.DocumentModel, BackBone.NestedTypes, Backbone.Schema, Backbone-Nested, backbone-nestify, just to name a few. Deciding which one is the best for your project requires research, which in turn takes time - and one of the main purposes of framework is to save you time. "

Great article analyzing the differences between LESS and SASS. LESS is a javascript CSS pre-processor while SASS is ruby.

"an application. We have lots of opinions about how it does or does not fit into the Model/View/Whatever world. We have more than enough "to-do" demo applications, which can bring a layer of value when learning about application design. However, what I think is lacking are details about Backbone itself and what the actual code is doing. The documentation offers some degree of this as well as the annotated source, but I think more information is needed. Or, at the very least, a different voice documenting Backbone's function and parts. In Part 1 and Part 2 of Backbone.js Deconstructed, we are going to examine the function of the Backbone Library at the code level. Specifically, in Part 1 we w"

Make the user sign in through Ajax to improve user experience.

This seems pretty involved.....

Thx to Chris