I have recently been using Backbone.Marionette in anger while building Raygun.io. I was struggling to find posts on how to use modules correctly. So of course I ended up using them poorly and have since discovered a better way to use them. I am going to show both the first way that I used Marionette and the new way that I have moved to after discovering the weaknesses in my first approach.

Yesterday Amy and I hosted and facilitated the Wellington code retreat as part of the global day of code retreat. The day went well and we got a full house of developers to practice coding. We managed to get in 6 sessions and worked through a variety of constraints ranging from not using condtionals and only using 4 lines of code, through to not using any return values.

Over the weekend I attended a new conference up in Auckland organised by two stellar dudes Ben Gracewood and Ian Randall. It was exceptionally well organised, the speakers were awesome, the swag bag had some cool gear and the after party rocked long into the night.

Gimono is a company from Dunedin creating martial arts uniforms out of a material they call Fortitude. I had been shown their website a little while ago and they looked interesting. I recently ripped my Judogi at training so was on the lookout for a new Gi when I saw Gimono had a special on I jumped on it.