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by nilliams 14y ago
I see code samples, you don't?
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by nilliams 14y ago
I agree with you that 'massively bloated' is a huge overstatement, and this plugin is clearly intended for desktop-style apps as an improvement to the default desktop-browser's select element. In desktop-land the 32kb it takes to download j
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by nilliams 14y ago
I found Kenneth Love's 'Getting Started With Django' series a pretty great start: http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/resources/gigantuan.html
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by nilliams 14y ago
> The only answer I can think of is through app stores run by trusted browser vendors. Exactly, that's clearly what Google are thinking too, as you can install apps from the Chrome web store with elevated privileges today, e.g. the Secu
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by nilliams 14y ago
There are some really great things in here, it feels like the creators have grown this out of a lot of experience using jQuery, gathering up all the pain points and omissions over time. Even the little things like $.formParams, I always won
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by nilliams 14y ago
Looks like the slides from all talks (including this keynote) are on the BackboneConf site: http://backboneconf.com/#schedule Edit: Ah beaten to it!
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yep, actually someone else (Dethe Elza) already beat you to a JS version: http://waterbearlang.com/garden.html?plugin=canvas It was presented at JSConf last year: http://blip.tv/jsconf/jsconf2011-dethe-elza-5942746
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by nilliams 14y ago
Haha, that one's especially amazing. He definitely seems to be using the 'Zero Punctuation' style of dictation. (Write it all down in advance, then just read it out all at once without respecting natural pauses etc later). It is hilarious,
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by nilliams 14y ago
Awesome, glad to be of help :)
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by nilliams 14y ago
I'm with you on this one, that doesn't seem like the most well-considered paragraph. As well as the point you picked up on there's also: 'Code is cleaner and more verbose' - less verbose surely. 'Faster development and less bugs' - huge s
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by nilliams 14y ago
I'd go so far as to say 'just use Handlebars', as at some point you will need an 'each' construct which underscore templates don't provide. They're okay for minimal templates that are akin to string interpolation, but as soon as you 'get se
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by nilliams 14y ago
That's great to quickly show someone a program, but not so great if they try it a few weeks later and get a non-stable version of your program, otherwise that definitely won't be it, they'll have to spend some time figuring out what went wr
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by nilliams 14y ago
Ah but you should never have to write code that looks like that. Use a templating language like Mustache ( http://mustache.github.com/ ). Or simply use string interpolation, which most dynamic languages have baked in: http://en.wikipedia.o
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by nilliams 14y ago
Edit: Oops didn't notice you were a developer. I think comparing to complex combinations of ' and "" is a bit of a straw man, as JavaScript developers use templating languages like Handlebars/Mustache so that really isn't an issue! I see wh
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by nilliams 14y ago
If you look at the docs you'll see it's not trying to replace CSS and HTML (thankfully). CSS and HTML are still used. There just appears to be some extra sugar around HTML templating (and it checks your HTML at compile-time). The 'one unifi
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by nilliams 14y ago
Ah great, good to hear it! And yes using SASS sounds like a definite win :)
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by nilliams 14y ago
Okay, interesting. I perhaps don't understand enough about the syntax to appreciate why those lower-level constructs would be beneficial w.r.t the geo stuff. On the styling sure, data should often dictate the style in visualisations - the m
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by nilliams 14y ago
Agreed, weird to say this to a lisper as you guys are all about the elegance etc, but you should really take a leaf out of some JS library authors' books. http://oesmith.github.com/morris.js http://humblesoftware.com/flotr2#!basic
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by nilliams 15y ago
Been a while since I looked at JSBin, looks like it's had some nice improvements. I really like the realtime preview and the linting of your JS while you edit.