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by eee_c 14y ago
I was really unsure what the result would be -- I definitely shared your concerns when I started. The core of Dart is surprisingly stable -- the team is doing a really solid job of not yanking the rug out from under developers' feet. Sure,
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by eee_c 14y ago
Yup, that is absolutely why I do this. I'm not sure it would be possible to keep this up without an intense curiosity about these topics :) There is also a selfish aspect to it. By writing the best book that I am capable of, I learn this st
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by eee_c 14y ago
I think we're actually mostly in agreement :) Neither The SPDY Book nor Dart for Hipsters was meant to be a definitive guide on their respective subjects. They are 150 page intros and, as you say, probably well suited for this approach. For
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by eee_c 14y ago
That is a fair point. I had not run SPDY in a heavily utilized production environment. I'll agree that there are things that I would learn had I done so, but I would definitely argue that this is the only way to learn something in depth.
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by eee_c 14y ago
Gotcha. The title is intentionally over the top and definitely worthy of, at least, a skeptical attitude. I do have some awesome pancake recipes though...
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by eee_c 14y ago
I've been coding since the mid-nineties and had been content to be good/competent. From there to book writer is, I think, a natural outgrowth of the chain posts. I know Nick IRL. He had previously toyed with the idea of doing a book. I can
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by eee_c 14y ago
Much thanks. I've definitely appreciated the encouragement along the way. But mostly it's cool to know that my posts have helped. Makes it that much more worthwhile :)
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by eee_c 14y ago
Yah, that's actually where I got the original idea: http://japhr.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-chain.html (should have made that more clear). I'm never going to reach Seinfeld levels, but that's all right.
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by eee_c 14y ago
Ah, but I think that's the point. My understanding of the topics is anything but superficial. If you follow along with my daily posts, I think you can see me work through initial infatuation, recognition of limitations, and finally deeper u
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by eee_c 15y ago
That's fantastic news. It'll be so much easier if NPN is available in Ubuntu proper. Huge thanks!
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by eee_c 15y ago
FWIW this is a follow-up to http://www.confreaks.com/videos/652-gogaruco2011-you-ain-t-s...
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by eee_c 15y ago
The thoughbot book is available here: https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/backbone-js-on-rails . Great stuff going on there -- heartily recommend it.
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by eee_c 15y ago
Keep your money then, we do not discuss drag and drop in the book :) Have you already seen this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7328265/jquery-draggable-... ?
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by eee_c 15y ago
I agree that the PDF formatting leaves something to be desired. We are using the OSS git-scribe ( https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe ) toolchain for producing PDF, Mobi, and ePub. I have already put a ton of work into the toolchain to
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by eee_c 15y ago
Dang. Fixed the TOC. Thanks for pointing that out. Nick and I will discuss making the intro available. We are targeting intermediate / advanced Backbone.js developers. That is, you should read this after you've read the tutorials and afte
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by eee_c 15y ago
We can do you one better than that -- two entire chapters are online. Viewable from the table of contents page: http://recipeswithbackbone.com/toc.html
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by eee_c 15y ago
If you have _any_ problems, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@recipeswithbackbone.com. We will work our collective butts off to make sure that everything gets processed correctly. There seems to have been a delay in Google C