7 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Duchnik

Robert Duchnik was born in 1969 in Chicago to two well-known artists, Eva and Frank Duchnik. He is the second of three children. Robert's father was well known for his wood block sculptures and watercolor paintings, while his mother worked with fabrics and jewelry making. The family moved to San Francisco in 1977 where Robert finished high school at the age of 16 Read more

He started his career as a musician playing guitar in many local bands, eventually becoming lead singer/guitarist for the band Death By Stereo, which played at clubs throughout Northern California. Robert attended San Francisco Art Institute where he graduated with honors. After college, he went on to study film at The "University of the Arts" in Philadelphia where he also took classes at the Philadelphia College of Art. Robert's first shot at film production landed him a job as editor for an independent film called "Paintball".

He continued to produce music for several years before landing a job writing scripts for MTV's short-lived movie series "Undressed". Robert also produced two other short films for MTV before quitting the network to pursue his passion for writing. Today Robert lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jessica, daughter, Emily Rose, and son, Jameson Luke.

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JQuery is by far the most widely used library for JavaScript. It is used on more than 50% of websites. Many frameworks, such as Backbone and Twitter’s Bootstrap, are built on top of j Query. Being able to extend and write plugins for j Query can not only save lots of time, but also makes code much cleaner and easier to maintain. Robert Duchnik
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Believe the power of j Query is highly underutilized. Most developers will take advantage of its shortcuts and CSS selectors, but most of the time they fail to take advantage of much else. Being able to extend j Query, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full-blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer. Robert Duchnik
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Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time. Robert Duchnik
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In my experience, requirements change quite often, or new situations will arise that weren’t anticipated at the start of the project. If the situation can be addressed with a plugin, I just whip open the standalone plugin page, make the updates and pop the new plugin back in. Because the plugin is self-contained, it’s easy to recreate the problem, fix it, and get it back into the codebase. Robert Duchnik
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Ultimately, I try to think of my application’s main codebase as just stringing together various components and code from many sources. It just controls logic and flow. The real nitty-gritty is handled behind the scenes. This is why frameworks like Backbone are so important – they hide a lot of the details in the background and allow you to just focus on the flow and control of your application. . Robert Duchnik
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A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free. Robert Duchnik