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by dmmalam 15y ago
My experience has been that ORMs generally 'suck' outside the trivial CRUD use-cases, and it's usually faster and simpler just to write native queries again your database. I've used hibernate, linq, active record and mongoose in real produc
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by dmmalam 15y ago
coffescript's sugar is pretty nice (haskell inspired)? function (a,b) {return a+b} becomes (a,b) -> a+b Hopefully in harmony we will see a shorter function syntax for environments where CS isn't an option
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by dmmalam 15y ago
Would be nice to see a need a list of modules that are ready for 0.6. I rekon our moderately complex app we will be on 0.4.x for a while
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by dmmalam 15y ago
We used heroku until the free tier wasn't enough. Then AWS, though it does have a initial learning curve. AWS is really flexible, but you do have to become a bit of a sys admin.
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by dmmalam 15y ago
Awesome, really the only thing that I missed on my Android phone. Now just need a native gmaps app with navigation.
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by dmmalam 15y ago
As someone who first leant to program in Z80 asm, I would say just let them dig into some 'real' code, initially ignoring most (all) of the infrastructure. Just get a text editor, and a repl open, and quickly iterate real world code (actual
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by dmmalam 15y ago
what are people currently using for node dev. At quillu we are big fans of sublime, a terminal window and node inspector
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by dmmalam 15y ago
anyone have experience with node on heroku, with all the jazz (mongo, redis, socket.io)?
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by dmmalam 15y ago
Really waiting for a frameworks that makes sharing server/client models easy. Using backbone on the server feels like such a hack, as it was designed for the client. You end up being forced to use jsdom to create a server side dom so that
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by dmmalam 15y ago
I've created a stylus version for all you node junkies https://github.com/dmmalam/semantic.gs
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by dmmalam 15y ago
Would love a stylus version to use with nodejs
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Responsly.js: A set of CSS3/JS responsive widgets(github.com)
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by dmmalam 15y ago
Similar position here! Spent 4 years working as a programmer for a few faceless corps. While some of that was pretty interesting (wrote a quant investing engine from scratch) the politics eventually took its toll. So I spent the whole of la