June 2011
5 posts
SocketStream →
A web framework that sends requests via web-sockets.
Could it be a preview of the web frameworks of the future?
jQueryMobile Workshop #convergese
(Fail)
I was asked to give a workshop on jQueryMobile, which is a great mobile
framework that recently went to beta, and I completely
tanked the presentation.
Several things caused it to go bad to worse, and I am truly sorry to
everyone that attended and was hoping for awesomeness.
It just did not happen, I would like to provide everyone that attended that class and anyone else who would...
$.extend => update_attributes →
jQuery has a built-in update attributes method, I know extend is used to extend fn and jQuery for plugins, but it can also serve as a great way to update attributes on javascript objects. For example:
If you have a object:
x = {
name: 'foobar',
items: ['item1', 'item2']
}
And you persisted the object to a Form, then when the user submits the form, you pull
the params in to an object...
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Convert JavaScript to CoffeeScript
Rico Sta. Cruz created an awesome converter js2coffee. If you are planning to
get into CoffeeScript, you have to check this page out.
http://ricostacruz.com/js2coffee
It will not craft CoffeeScript as well as if you did it by hand, but it is great to take some
existing javascript and paste it in and see how it renders the CoffeeScript.
I just went over the https://github.com/visionmedia...
Fun Friday - OSS Contribution - Week 1 - Results
Goal
Everyone make at least one contribution to an open source project.
Results
The results were not very successful, while everyone wanted to
contribute, I did not properly prep the team for the event.
Here are some reasons why we failed:
Less than 24 hour notice - not enough time.
Everyone took a lot of time shopping for a project.
It takes time to get up to speed on policies and...
