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Hahhahaha :,) :: Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech - Teh Journalz

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:33:42 -0500

Hahhahaha :,) :: Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech - Teh Journalz:

@codeslinger continues the war on node.js and bad code.

9-bits: mikemccarron: OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) arrives this...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:45:09 -0500

mikemccarron:

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) arrives this summer. With all-new features inspired by iPad, the Mac just keeps getting better and better.

Mountain Lion looks like it will be a promising follow-up to OS X Lion. It will bring over popular iOS apps and features like Messages, Reminders, Notes, Twitter integration and Notification Center. Mountain Lion will also expand it’s iCloud integration by allowing you to store documents on iCloud and access them from your iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Additionally, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has an excellent article about how Apple’s Phil Schiller revealed Mountain Lion to him in his own person “Apple Media Event”.

Can’t wait to play with this.

"I’ve never met a really accomplished programmer who wasn’t a master of regular..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:13:49 -0500

“I’ve never met a really accomplished programmer who wasn’t a master of regular expressions[.]”

- Tim Bray, “Beautiful Code”, Ch. 4, pg. 43

"The Ruby programming language…, while far from perfect, [is] the most readable of languages...."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:11:42 -0500

“The Ruby programming language…, while far from perfect, [is] the most readable of languages. If you don’t know Ruby, learning it will probably make you a better programmer.”

- Tim Bray, “Beautiful Code,” Ch. 4, pp.43-44

Sh*t Bad Scrum Masters Say

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:48:37 -0500

Sh*t Bad Scrum Masters Say:

It’s funny because it’s true.

Portlandia on Signe Rose’s new career. :D She’s...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:31:06 -0500

Portlandia on Signe Rose’s new career. :D

She’s making jewelry now (by unichopper)

Dear developers

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:01:10 -0500

9-bits:

This is why I use Sass and Compass.

9-Bits by David Kaneda: Dear W3C/CSS WG

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:00:52 -0500

9-Bits by David Kaneda: Dear W3C/CSS WG:

9-bits:

I’ll be the first to admit: I don’t really get how it all works. The standards process, the politics… I think I get the general idea, but that’s not really important. I know what vendor prefixes are for, and I’m tired of using them 4 times over with the same value. When 4 competitive…

/^Regular\sExpressions$/ Presentation

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:33:00 -0500

I am giving a presentation at #CIM tomorrow on Regular Expressions, this is my presentation.

I have a bad feeling about this

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:09:55 -0500

I have a bad feeling about this:

This is an interesting post comparing patent trolling to Star Wars. It is a fun read.

Badass JavaScript: JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:14:36 -0500

Badass JavaScript: JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB:

badassjs:

I always enjoy watching JS1k, which, if you haven’t heard of it, is a JavaScript competition to make the best demo in under 1KB of code. It has been running for a few years now, and every time, it gets better and better with cooler demos, more judges and of course better prizes. This time, the…

The Fireplace Delusion

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:56:12 -0500

The Fireplace Delusion:

The link above is a very interesting read about how we can hold emotional attachments to irrational ideas, even in the face of scientific proof.

"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:49:37 -0500

“If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier and better can be called useful then we claim that epithet for our subject. For mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.”

- Thomas Bulfinch, “The Age of Fable,” Prefix

I made cookies! Look at me all domesticated-like.

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:18:44 -0500

I made cookies! Look at me all domesticated-like.

"The sins of great personages have dire consequences for the innocent."

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:13:40 -0500

“The sins of great personages have dire consequences for the innocent.”

- “A Delicate Balance,” Fables 113, pg. 4

If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong - Teh Journalz

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:49:50 -0500

If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong - Teh Journalz:

codeslinger throws down on node.js in this post. Reminds me of the reality check given to mongoDB being “web scale.”

A Rebase Workflow for Git

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:01:21 -0500

A Rebase Workflow for Git:

This is a great article on rebasing in git. I first got turned onto the idea by Randy Schmidt when he was talking to Len Smith. I am fighting to move to git (and GitHub) at work, and learning up on rebase is key for that!

EnvJasmine 1.7 Released!

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:55:01 -0500

Thanks to the support of the EnvJasmine community we have a great new update. This one is especially useful for those of you running EnvJasmine in Maven or Rake and are integrating into a CI server like Jenkins!

Check out the latest repo at https://github.com/trevmex/EnvJasmine.

To see how to integrate EnvJasmine into your Maven workflow, try out the Maven example at https://github.com/trevmex/EnvJasmine-Maven-Example. After you clone the repo, run ./updateEnvJasmine.sh to get EnvJasmine, then mvn test to run your test.

EnvJasmine also works great in Rails. Check out the example at https://github.com/trevmex/EnvJasmine-Rails3-Example. Run ./updateEnvJasmine.sh to get EnvJasmine, bundle install, and rake (or bundle exec rake, if need be), and there you go!

Here is the change set for EnvJasmine 1.7. Enjoy!

Added the —incrementalOutput flag to allow output to show progress per file. This is useful when running EnvJasmine in Maven.
Changed the “Failed: 0” output to not be red (it only becomes red if there are failing tests, less distracting).
Fixed a bug where improper character encoding would cause EnvJasmine to report false results in different environments.
Added support to execute ./bin/run_test.sh with an absolute path to a spec file previously this only worked with relative paths).
Added the ability to define a custom EnvJasmine.reporterClass in your config file (include/dependencies.js) to overwrite the default RhinoReporter (Thanks jakul!).
Added an optional RhinoSpecReporter to jasmine-rhino-reporter.js (this is an example of how you can write your own reporters, thanks jakul!).
Updated the tutorial to include creating a custom config file (Thanks zdk!).

Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:21:26 -0500

Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby:

Lisp in Ruby, my two favorite languages together at last!

"Rails’ controllers are like waiters in a restaurant. A customer orders a steak dinner from a..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:03:27 -0500

“Rails’ controllers are like waiters in a restaurant. A customer orders a steak dinner from a waiter. The waiter takes the request and tells the kitchen that he needs a steak dinner. When the steak dinner is ready, the waiter delivers it to the customer for her enjoyment.”

- Craig Demyanovich, from “The RSpec Book” by David Chelimsky, pg. 341