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by ryanfitz 14y ago
This would be great if it could also generate javascript code to run the app (backbone.js, angular...) then you could plug that into calling your backend.
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by ryanfitz 14y ago
I liked the design of their pages so I went to look at the source and noticed every page is wrapped in a top level form tag, can someone explain why they would do this?
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
quickly looking at the bootstrap javascript they are making calls to $().offset which also doesn't work for hidden elements, so yes were talking about the same thing.
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
The biggest issue I run into with plugins and backbone is ones that rely on jquery position. The position api needs to be called after the element is attached to the dom and is not hidden. I like to encapsulate all the view logic within the
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I was confused by what the different colored triangles meant, at first I thought it was perhaps some sort of build status indicator. Adding a key about the different colors might be nice to have.
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
Looks like we are building a very similar node.js client for dynamo. https://github.com/Wantworthy/dynode
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
When I am trying out/learning a new library or framework, I do a lot of tinkering, looking around and reading the source code. Coffeescript output is definitely readable, but you need to take a tiny bit of time to translate the coffeescript
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I would avoid even trying this framework out because its written in coffeescript. I have nothing against cs and write most of my clientside app code in cs, but I think libraries should avoid using it. Simply because it makes debugging more
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I'm the author of that gem. My goal with it is to really just help people get up and running with rails & backbone as quickly as possible. There are no best practices built in and I try to avoid adding any extra features that aren't nee
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I'm not from Bocoup, but I want something like this to build, test, deploy the client portion of my apps and then proxy api calls to backend services.
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
Me saying "mock startup" was probably a bad term to use, plus I'm probably missing the use case of hacker school. What I really meant was to work on something larger scale as a team. For an example make a clone of hn or reddit, do a web app
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
What about having your students develop and launch a mock startup? Building small apps and going over books is great, but I think students can learn a lot more real world dev by actually doing it. You can still emphasize code quality, agile
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
If you're using rails you can try out my gem which will (hopefully) help you get started with backbone + rails. https://github.com/codebrew/backbone-rails
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
This is the first I've heard of OpenShift, from the sounds of it there are a set list of applications/languages you can use on the platform? Are there any plans for node.js support?
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I have yet to migrate off of IndexTank, but I've heard good things about elasticsearch and am going to be giving it a try once time permits. Has it been officially stated that indextank will be shutdown anytime soon?
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
If you're interested in dnode you should also check out hook.io https://github.com/hookio/hook.io It uses dnode to essentially let you build an auto-discovering message bus. I recently started using it and so far its been an amazing way t
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
Blogging is something I've tried to do a few times, but have never stuck with it. I bought this book the other day, during the pragprog sale. I'm really looking forward to reading it and hoping it will teach/inspire me to give tech blogging
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
In the past year I've dropped 40lbs of fat and have put on a good amount of muscle. For my goals, which are fat loss and lift as much weight as possible, Id say I've hacked my nutrition pretty well. Instead of limiting how much I eat, I lim
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
Looking at that listing the more amazing stat is that twitter bootstrap is #3. That was just released a few months ago and is "simply" an html ui framework. I think this highlights that over anything else, what most developers really need i
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I really enjoyed this review, it came off very honest and you didn't try to be very pro or con, just what you ran into over the past year. You mention no reasonable Scala client exists, why not create and release your own? I know Riak talks
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
Browse around github for projects that involve whatever concept you want to learn. Study the source code and attempt to add new features or make some sort of change. As an example if you want to learn less/css look at twitter bootstrap, for
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I just updated the backbone-rails readme to reflect that it uses backbone.js 0.5.3
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I'm the author of backbone-rails, one of the main differences that I see is I provide a Backbone.sync method that plays nicely with rails conventions of namespacing your put/post params by model name. It also adds csrf-token to the header i
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I think MongoDB's biggest problem is people expect mongo to take care of all their scalability issues for them. In reality once you start hitting a certain scale you need to start rearchitecting your system, no datastore can automatically h
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
some of the kindle product pages have a specific section mentioning the borrow feature. For example http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-ebook/dp/B003G83UI2/r... However I don't see this on most of the kindle pages, so I assumed it was
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
is there an easy way to see or search for books that are available for this?
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
I was recently at a sproutcore meetup where Yehuda Katz presented and mentioned one of the reasons he suggests using Coffeescript is because it can (as in now or in the future) generate more efficient javascript code than the typical javasc
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
backbone.js http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone
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by ryanfitz 15y ago
The title might be a bit misleading, I thought this was going to be something where I could hook into your api and I could build something fun. Instead it seems to be more of an interview questions style challenge.

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