TrevorBurnham

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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Title should probably mention that this is a project by Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki. Source (in CoffeeScript) is at https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
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Pinify, a jQuery plugin for IE9+ site pinning(github.com)
2 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|0 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I realize that posting to HN about every little bugfix release is annoying, but this is the first CoffeeScript release in nearly 3 months. To put that into perspective, that's about 15% of the language's lifetime up to this point. During th
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CoffeeScript 1.1.2 released(twitter.com)
8 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|1 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
"I'm the author, ask me anything," as they say. One of the interesting and/or frustrating things about Node.js is that, although it's based on a very dynamic language where you can modify (nearly) any object at any time, it also encourages
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Using EventEmitters in Node.js + CoffeeScript to decouple modules(pragprog.com)
2 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|1 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Short answer: The disadvantage is temporary. I went to Carleton College in Minnesota. It does well in liberal arts college rankings, but it's not well-known. In fact, my Y Combinator interview began with pg asking me, "You're Canadian?" (He
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author. Writing about CoffeeScript has been a great experience. I'll continue to spread the word about the language with articles, conference talks, and perhaps screencasts—stay tuned. It's worth mentioning that this is also the fir
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I strongly suspect you'll get your book sooner than that. I've asked my editors at PragProg repeatedly why the Amazon release date is so far in the future; it seems to be some sort of glitch. People who ordered their print copies directly f
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Pardon a bit of advertising rhetoric. Let me make a couple of more precise statements: 1. Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, dislikes its syntax (he was famously told to "make it look like Java" even though its semantics are derived f
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Author of the CoffeeScript book here. This is really, really cool! I especially like that there's annotated source ( http://code.alecperkins.net/coffeetable/docs/coffeetable.htm... ). A couple of things: 1. I can't seem to add linebreaks in
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Love the coffee icon! Growl notifications are also available in Jitter, my custom alternative to `coffee -cwo`: https://github.com/TrevorBurnham/jitter Jitter has a couple of other little perks: It watches for new source files as well as
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Sure. This would be a reason not to use splatted arguments in performance-intensive functions, since foo = (first, middle..., last) -> relies on `Array.prototype.slice(arguments)` to transform arguments into an array. You could
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I've heard this from many people who've picked up CoffeeScript, especially those who are most fluent in Ruby. Dr. Nic of Engine Yard, an early proponent of CoffeeScript, gave me this blurb for my book: > JavaScript the runtime language
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Cambridge/Boston, MA area or remote. I'm the author of the CoffeeScript book, soon to be in print from PragProg: http://pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript I also run @CoffeeScript on Twitter. I gave a talk about Coffee
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Spreading the word with fewer AdWords(trevorburnham.posterous.com)
3 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|0 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Right, I like Sinatra a lot. But there's substantially more magic there than in Express, which is actually a pretty thin (yet powerful) wrapper around Node's low-level HTTP API.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author of the CoffeeScript book from PragProg, which includes a chapter on Node.js. I've done a fair amount of server-side development in Java and Ruby. What I like most about Node.js is the feeling that you can be as close to the m
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Really cool to see another Node framework that uses CoffeeScript. SocketStream joins the likes of: * Brunch: http://brunchwithcoffee.com/ * Zappa: https://github.com/mauricemach/zappa * Coffeemate: https://github.com/coffeemate/coffeem
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I can't connect to those domains. DNS propagation, perhaps? Are they working for anyone else?
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
And I'd write for i in [0...list.length] by 1 sum += list[i].amount to get equivalent compiled output. I've used C and Java since high school, but I'm happy to be rid of that old `for` syntax. And I love that curly braces mea
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript: http://pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript It's heartening to see so many people responding to this poll. I hopped on the CoffeeScript bandwagon more than a year ago; a week of us
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
It's true that tools for compiling CoffeeScript on Windows are lacking, though the compiler runs fine in the browser as well as on Node—try it yourself at http://coffeescript.org—and also in various JS runtimes for Java, .NET, and of cour
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Have you tried using node-inspector for server-side code debugging? https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
That shouldn't be surprising. A willingness to learn new and esoteric languages is one of the hallmarks of HN-ers. See also: The Python Paradox ( http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html ).
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Well, there are JS implementations of both Markdown and Textile: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319657/javascript-to-con... It would be cool if the site used one of these, since then you could view the markup of a page and see how ma
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm a fan of Eloquent JavaScript. In my book on CoffeeScript ( http://pragprog.com/titles/tbcoffee/coffeescript ), I recommend it as a resource for readers who want a thorough introduction to JavaScript. So obviously, I think it's pretty da
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
CoffeeKup is great for layouts, but it's very Haml-esque. I think it suffers from many of the issues described in "Haml Sucks for Content" ( http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/02/08/haml-sucks-f... ). Markdown/Textile are really bett
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript, and I run @coffeescript on Twitter. I like this site. The official CoffeeScript wiki on GitHub has some good content, but it's fairly scattered; no one has taken an intense interest in it
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
It's an interesting idea, but how much of a benefit would there really be to serving ES.next code to people with modern browsers? I'd love to see benchmarks / realistic code size comparisons.

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