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by xyzzyb 14y ago
For designers, how is this different than Pixelapse? http://www.pixelapse.com/
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Amazon will develop its own online TV shows(internetretailer.com)
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Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries(github.com)
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Integrity | Continuous Integration server(integrityapp.com)
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
For topical searches like this, I find that pinboard is a great place to start. http://pinboard.in/t:typography/ Tag queries can be limited to popularity as well. http://pinboard.in/popular/t:typography/ Off the top of my head, you'll w
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Absolutely, that's one of my favorites.
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Just My Type(daneden.me)
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Text Ascii Art Generator(patorjk.com)
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I completely agree, and wrote an article on this while I was frustrated with a node.js project at work that was trying to throw node, backbone, require, mustache, mocha, and dynamoDB. http://rakeroutes.com/blog/the-problem-with-completely-
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Sorry, I meant as a "way to discover high quality content on the web". For bookmarking: I get that briarpatch is hooking into the browser, and I see how that's interesting but I'm way into pinboard and it's ability to automatically collect
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Agreed. I'm not sure what this gets me that http://pinboard.in/popular/ doesn't already provide.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Not exactly, but similar. If you want to see a demo, Ryan Bates highlights this feature (among others) with his ZSH screencast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/308-oh-my-zsh
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
zsh had me when I realized that 1) it's a drop in replacement for bash. All those scripts you have around have #!/bin/bash at the top, they will still work exactly as they always have. 2) You can selectively go back through your command his
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Absolutely. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some new twist that this tool was providing.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
That looks fine, but how is it different that the plethora of alternate implementations of that particular UI widget? e.g. Bootstrap's popover: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#popovers
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
Planscope has a great design out of the Twitter Bootstrap: https://planscope.io/
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
Absolutely. Thinking of an idea and then coding to its realization is a classic method of learning to program. It sounds like you have a great system for learning. I'd only caution that even if you come up with a solution to a problem on yo
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
I'm not up on current Django tutorials (which may be more your style since you're already familiar with Python) but you are a great candidate for Michael Hartl's fantastic Rails tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ You can buy the boo
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
Coming to Rails frustrated with the slog that you have to deal with otherwise is exactly the path that Rails was designed to accomodate. You know and appreciate the fact that Rails is making decisions for you to help you get going while a b
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
I, for one, am glad that you appreciated and highlighted one of the key portions of my post. I spent a lot of time on it (relative to the rest of the post) to try and convey the point concisely.
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
Yeah, I'm realizing that there isn't a great starting point for someone to get into web development from scratch. I don't think Django or Rails should even factor into it. I've liked what I've seen of Code Academy, that might be something t
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
You're right, this applies just as much to Django. I should really have said, "Frameworks aren't for beginners". A framework allows an expert to get going without dealing with the trivial details; but to the beginner there are no trivial de
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
I couldn't say, I'm not familiar with the PR around Rails. But I will point out that Rails being easy is different than Rails being for beginners. Rails is easy in that it solves a lot of pain points that exist around web development. If yo
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
That's the nail on the head right there. Without any context even the conventions of Rails seem like arbitrary decisions just to make things complicated. Once you understand the problem you can appreciate the solution.
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
RVM is superb. And, yes, I think a major issue was that he was trying to use macports for installation of things instead of homebrew.
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
I'm pretty interested in that project. We had a dev on Lion try to get a Ruby 1.9.3 + Rails 3.2 environment up who ran into all kinds of issues: a far cry from the days of locomotive indeed.
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
Yes, the barrier to entry to writing web applications is significantly lowered by Rails; but it's not meant to be a replacement for experience. Rails is supremely helpful, but not explicitly designed for beginners.
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by xyzzyb 15y ago
Exactly. I do love Rails and it's great for what it does, but it isn't (and never was) designed to help beginners write web applications.
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Rails isn't for beginners(rakeroutes.com)
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Fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors(rakeroutes.com)
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