October 2011
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Good Talk on how to think about Application... →
Micah Martin and Robert C Martin, give a great and entertaining talk on how they worked through building an application. They built the application in the context of abstracting the UI and Data Layers, then focusing on the Business Logic layer, with TDD they were able to build the entire business logic layer, then the connect the data layer, and finally the UI Layer. Often times we get...
Oct 24th
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Experiences of how to get started programming →
Robert Pearce did an excellent a talk at BarCampCHS yesterday. He shared his experience of going from 0 to professional rails programmer. And he created this site this awesome site. Not only does it contain links to resources he used, but it also contains the approaches he took. He started writing tests first in capybara and ruby. Really cool stuff! If you want to learn to program.check this...
Oct 23rd
WatchWatch
theprivileges: One of the best take aways from this years’ Web2.0Expo/NY for me was the introduction to CoffeeScript.  This was done during The New Startup Stack workshop by Trevor Burnham. Which he runs us into a quick overview of CoffeeScript, Node.js and MongoDB. If you have an understanding of JavaScript and has not seen CoffeeScript yet, it will behoove you to watch this video by Bodil...
Oct 23rd
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Cloud9 IDE -> 0 to CODE in 5 minutes
Cloud9 IDE -> 0 to NODE in 5 minutes Build and deploy end to end Javascript Applications Cloud9IDE is an online application development environment. “Development as a Service”, it is free to get started and open-source. If you are constantly on the go or want to start learning NodeJs, Sproutcore, CoffeeScript, and other new javascript technologies, but don’t have the...
Oct 18th
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csv2json - experimental csv parser
Recently, I created a library called csvjs, which takes a comma separated file and parses it to an array of javascript objects. It works great for the files that I have needed to parse, but would like to see if it can handle the vast array of csv files out in the universe. Do you have some nasty csv files? Go to csv2json.herokuapp.com And upload your csv and get a json version back. ...
Oct 6th