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Starting Points for Pushing Async Notifications to Browsers
I asked on Twitter for some starting points on pushing asynchronous notifications to web browsers. Here are the results, summarized. Continue reading
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Tagged asychronous, html5, javascript, notifications, push, web, websockets
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Linkdump #8
Scriptensity: Emscripten 1.0! This is the first I’ve heard of this project: it’s an LLVM-to-Javascript compiler. Which means you can (for instance) compile C++ to Javascript. I can’t decide if this is amazing or just batshit insane. Probably both. tags: … Continue reading
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Tagged http, javascript, llvm, ruby, spdy, static analysis, tcp, tdd, test-unit, testing, yield
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Linkdump #7
Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More Wise words. tags: development I think many developers (myself included) are easily seduced by new technology and are willing to burn a lot of time … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, bdd, java, javascript, literate programming, logging, nodejs, rails, rspec, ruby, tdd, testing
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Linkdump #6
agile/db_branch – GitHub I’d been looking for a way to manage databases for multiple branches of an app, and this is one of the (many) suggestions. tags: development database ruby rails git Rails plugin to play nice with git branching … Continue reading
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Tagged c++, c++0x, clojure, data structures, datamapper, javascript, links, memoization, parsing, rails, ruby, Ruby on Rails
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CommunityOverflow – Userscripts.org
My first public Greasemonkey script: a quick hack for Stack Overflow to check the “community owned wiki” box by default.
jQuery
I played around with jQuery a little over the weekend. I’m fairly impressed. The obvious comparison is with Prototype, but I can’t really make that comparison because almost all the Prototype work I’ve done has been automatically generated by Rails. … Continue reading
