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Thanks for the detailed list. I have many follow ups but I don't wanna bother you much so I narrowed it down to two: 1- What percentage is Twitter Bootstrap dri

Thanks for the detailed list. I have many follow ups but I don't wanna bother you much so I narrowed it down to two: 1- What percentage is Twitter Bootstrap driving your UI? In other words was it just a plug and play or did you have to overwrite a lot of js/css to get what you want? 2- How is Redis performing? (I am debating if I should use for my own side project) P.S. I hope that you have your own closed office for that clicky keyboard :)

gingerlime 14y ago
I'm not the best person to answer about bootstrap on our team, but I'll ask my colleague to add a comment about this later. Redis is fantastic. Perhaps I should also mention we use ohm as an ORM, which is very neat. I wouldn't dream managing our particular app without it. But it's not exactly fire-and-forget. Firstly, modelling your data is very important, or you can end up with lots of stuff taking precious memory. Secondly, whilst performance is great, it's still not 'transparent' like accessing a variable in memory. If you have lots of small redis queries, they do add up eventually. This is getting very detailed, but you might want to check out this as an example (specific to the ruby version it seems): https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/issues/283 https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/issues/283 Hope this helps, but feel free to get in contact.
- donebizkit 14y ago
  It does. Thanks again for the info. Cheers!
NielsH 14y ago
Hello, this is Niels from kenHub. Will try answering your first question. We used bootstrap as a starting point and - to be honest - at that point it looked like this. But over time we changed and added more and more of our own code. But I would say it is quite marginal still if you look at what bootstrap provides. I like and we still use twitter bootstrap for the grid, the readability of the text and the basic layout elements. But it is very important to give it your own style and diverge from it over time. Of course the anatomy trainer itself is mainly built without bootstrap. But even here we use elements of it.
- donebizkit 14y ago
  I see. It seems to me the advantage of using bootstrap is that the final product has a look and feel that's familiar to twitter users. Therefore, it's implicitly comfortable and intuitive to use. Thanks Niel and good luck with kenHub

gingerlime 14y ago

I'm not the best person to answer about bootstrap on our team, but I'll ask my colleague to add a comment about this later. Redis is fantastic. Perhaps I should also mention we use ohm as an ORM, which is very neat. I wouldn't dream managing our particular app without it. But it's not exactly fire-and-forget. Firstly, modelling your data is very important, or you can end up with lots of stuff taking precious memory. Secondly, whilst performance is great, it's still not 'transparent' like accessing a variable in memory. If you have lots of small redis queries, they do add up eventually. This is getting very detailed, but you might want to check out this as an example (specific to the ruby version it seems): https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/issues/283 https://github.com/redis/redis-rb/issues/283 Hope this helps, but feel free to get in contact.

donebizkit 14y ago
It does. Thanks again for the info. Cheers!

NielsH 14y ago

Hello, this is Niels from kenHub. Will try answering your first question. We used bootstrap as a starting point and - to be honest - at that point it looked like this. But over time we changed and added more and more of our own code. But I would say it is quite marginal still if you look at what bootstrap provides. I like and we still use twitter bootstrap for the grid, the readability of the text and the basic layout elements. But it is very important to give it your own style and diverge from it over time. Of course the anatomy trainer itself is mainly built without bootstrap. But even here we use elements of it.

donebizkit 14y ago
I see. It seems to me the advantage of using bootstrap is that the final product has a look and feel that's familiar to twitter users. Therefore, it's implicitly comfortable and intuitive to use. Thanks Niel and good luck with kenHub