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Re: Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP

Davy — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:39:40 -0000

A bit opinionated. If you pick a platform based on how long it takes you to get a new stub project up and running on your local machine, it's not a good reason, because the setup is a one time task.

If you have many small projects with different setups, you can consider using framework agnostic deploy/stub/skeleton software like opscodes chef, or brunch for a lighter version to manage your basic setup. You only have to do it once, and you will have your framework (rails, php, sinatra, python, node, whatever) the way you like it.

The choice of language is a question of language features, maturity and support. In your case it sounds more like its a question of what you have on your mind the moment you turn on the computer...

Your arguments that it takes time to get a sinatra setup up and running is utterly nonsense. What you really mean is that it takes a while to set it up the way *you* like it to run (with haml, etc.). Does php support haml in the base installation? No.

If you want a fast setup webserver, most frameworks today have a commandline one-liner: rails, python, php. I prefer 37signals pow myself, because then you don't have to use the one-liner even.

Happy coding,
Davy

Re: Executing A Project-Specific Node/NPM Package A-la “bundle exec”

Guest — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:39:13 -0000

Might be better to use something like:

alias npm-exec='PATH=$(npm bin):$PATH'

That way you execute commands in your project's bin directory from anywhere in the tree rather than just the root.

Re: Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP

Dmitri Zaitsev — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:13:55 -0000

Thank you, that explains it!

Re: Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP

Derick Bailey — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:31 -0000

the -S option and built in web server were introduced with PHP 5.4. You'll need to install that version (or higher, if one is released since) to get this to work

Re: Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP

Dmitri Zaitsev — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:36:18 -0000

Somehow php -S localhost:5000 doesn't seem to work for me.
The options -S does not seem to exist and I am sent to the help page of php.
Am I missing something?

I have Mac OS 10.8.3 and standard php:

PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Aug 28 2012 18:19:13)

Re: EmberJS: Initial Impressions (Compared To Backbone)

slowhands — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:41:45 -0000

I agree with this post 100%. The takeaway for me is that EmberJS gives us lots of help keeping things together, sort of like a puzzle that pieces itself together. The conventions are nice and all, but there's a rebel inside of me. Even though the instructions in the box are for building a car, I'm building a space ship.

Re: Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps)

Vikram Pawar — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:12:15 -0000

Thanks dude. You're a life saver!

Re: Thanks ADNUG attendees! Slides and code available.

MichaelFreidgeim — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:42:49 -0000

Link to your slides is broken.

Re: An Interesting "Feature" In Ruby’s DateTime.Parse

Eric Anderson — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:55:26 -0000

Great post! Our team discovered this very same problem. Totally a pain the ass. What's the best way to check for garbage when parsing dates? What did you end up coming up with?

Re: Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps)

Sam — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:21:05 -0000

Please use new Backbone.Events.listenTo instead of Backbone.Events.on

Re: Composite Views: Tree Structures, Tables, And More

Peter Caisse — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:37:23 -0000

I'm having an issue trying to pass options from the TreeRoot to the TreeView. Here's my stackoverflow question about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

Would anyone be able to shed some light?

Re: Don’t Do Role-Based Authorization Checks; Do Activity-Based Checks

Jason Dang — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:54:34 -0000

I dont agree with the author since the Enterprise Library has Unity block which allows us to inject the Authorization mechanism into the biz classes. That make our security mechanism very clear, loose-couple and easy to add custom roles. Your code seems to be outdated.

Re: Reducing Backbone Routers To Nothing More Than Configuration

_B@DR_ — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:24:28 -0000

hi, thx for this post :) i would like know if i can passed object to my router into url :

Ex : "mymethodName/:object": "mymethodName"

and method implementation is :

mymethodName : function (object){
//do somthing with my object
}

Thx :)

Re: Backbone.js: Getting The Model For A Clicked Element

Alex Pavlov — Sun, 05 May 2013 09:24:16 -0000

Is it possible to link (with "a href='someView/{{id}}'" which is defined on Router) each list item to view?

Re: Backbone.Syphon: Serialize Form Inputs To JavaScript Objects

Michael — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:33:14 -0000

This is great Derick, thanks for building it!

Re: Composite Views: Tree Structures, Tables, And More

Jesse Drelick — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:24:42 -0000

I found this terrific article that breaks down the different Marionette views visually quite wonderfully. Worthwhile mention: http://blog.artlogic.com/2013/...

Re: Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins

André Kramer — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:15:07 -0000

Awesome book! The good and the bad of Backbone.js is that it's not opinionated. But sometimes you just want to create a fixed workflow for you and your team. Hope this will help.

What remaining chapters do you have in stock?

Re: CLOSED: Want To Work From Home, Doing .NET Development? Read This!

TravisQuinn — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:28:21 -0000

I had spent lots of time to work on .Net development in house but cant make times to do it.but when i work on it my first work is to solved the bugs.

Re: Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps)

Vignesh Nandha Kumar — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:08:09 -0000

Hi, isn't the problem we are trying to solve by adding the `onClose` callback already solved by `stopListening`, which is called automatically by Backbone during `view.remove`?

Re: Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins

Ryan Roemer — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:03:46 -0000

I'd love to see a chapter on testing as well. I'm currently writing a (mini) book on Backbone.js testing, and I never get up to higher-order Backbone.js approaches and techniques like plugins -- would be great to see how testing informs plugin design, and what the end suites look like. (I've skimmed over the GitHub tests suites for Marionette and some of your plugins, so I know you've got a lot going on there).

Re: Some Notes On Screencasting

Lucy Millan — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:58:58 -0000

as for me,
i prefer to record my screen using this tool www.protemac.com/keybag/, it's
simple and nice!) but thanx a lot!)

Re: Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins

oronm — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:56:30 -0000

I meant if you hadn't written marionette. :-)
I'll re ask in a different way. do you agree with sebastian? http://sporto.github.io/blog/2...

Re: Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins

Derick Bailey — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:13:54 -0000

if I had to choose right now: Backbone + Marionette. because that's what I know best (since I wrote Marionette, of course).

but that's only my "right now" opinion. i honestly believe they are all great and all have their own strengths, weaknesses, target project types, and target developer opinion sets. the best bet is not to just pick one because blow-hard like me said to, but to actually sit down and play with a few of them so you can see what you do / don't like.

if time is too much of a constraint, though, just pick one (possibly by listening to someone like me, anyways) and get going. you just need to make sure you are willing to learn to like the opinions of the one you pick and stick with it, in this case.

Re: Prosthetics And Orthotics: Building Backbone Plugins

oronm — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:53:28 -0000

Hi Derick,
if you had to build a "single page application" right now. Objectively, which framework would you choose?

(or why is everyone keeps pointing me to angular?)

Re: SOLID Development Principles – In Motivational Pictures

Unfit4TheInternet — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:22:44 -0000

Lol, I love the note at the bottom about the posters being "licensed" under that creative commons license, but there's no attribution for the photographers of the images the posters are based off of. Folks, just because you find an image on the interwebs doesn't mean it's yours to use as you wish.