…of classes. Instead it constructs its objects using prototypes. If you're writing your code in CoffeeScript, you can almost always ignore this fact, and write your code as if you were in Ruby or Python. In this case, however, CoffeeScript is making our problem less apparent, so let's take a look at what this code looks like using plain JavaScript. function GiantRobot() {}
GiantRobot.prototype.smashCache = {};
GiantRobot.prototype.smashInto = function(other) { if (!this.smashCache[other]) …
- A Fresh Cup: Notes on the Asset Pipeline
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 427 — Ode to a shipping label
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
- JJinuxLand: HTML5 Dev Conf
- WriteLessCode Blog: Testing with CoffeeScript and Mocha
- Andrzej on Software: From backend to frontend - the mental transition
…GitHub JavaScript styleguide :
Write new JS in CoffeeScript.
Use soft-tabs with a two space indent.
Always use camelCase, never underscores.
Use implicit parentheses when possible.
...
§ Case study: How effective are CDNs for mobile visitors? .
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: JRuby 1.7.0, Passenger 4.0b1, Ruby 2.0 Feature Freeze
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1090
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: My wife is getting really into whiskey
- Article RSS Feed: December 2012 Meeting
- JJinuxLand: HTML5 Dev Conf
- WriteLessCode Blog: Testing with CoffeeScript and Mocha
…around it.
Related, the Big O cheatsheet .
§ Lisa Williams :
A scientific attitude toward one's pursuits is a great comfort: "It doesn't work" is a perfectly good experimental result.
§ Alastair Coote :
The new http://m.nytimes.com runs on Node, uses Coffeescript, LESS, and Redis for caching. How many hipster hacker points do we get?
- Phusion Corporate Blog: The new Rack socket hijacking API
- New Relic: Data Nerd? How About ‘Date-a-Nerd'!
- Luigi Montanez: On Starting a Startup
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - John Straw (YellowPages.com) and Matt Aimonetti (Merb)
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #716
- Coding Horror: The Eternal Lorem Ipsum
The Rails 4 Way - Available now in beta form through Leanpub.
jet-pack - Boilerplate Sinatra app with Haml, Sass, Coffeescript, Foreman, and other goodies.
Performance enhancements for Ruby-based stacks in BitNami - They're now preinstalling the Falcon patches and tuning GC by default.
Feed Wrangler - "A modern, sustainable RSS reader" at $ 18.99 per year.
Introducing Trello Business Class! - Good on them for finding a way to let people pay to keep the lights on.
- Obie Fernandez: The Rails 4 Way (beta)
…stack: Rails, PostgreSQL/ PostGIS, Memcached, CoffeeScript, Sass, jQuery, Handlebars, Backbone, Underscore, Sinatra, Clojure, Java, Hadoop, Cascalog. Highlight: "You don't need a database, you need a [expletive deleted] cache" So that's what we did, we traded our database for a cache.
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…gift , it proved to be a fine machine for building PHP, Rails and CoffeeScript apps under both Windows and Ubuntu. Even though it's not my main development machine, it still performs yeoman service at my home office.
My other Windows machine is my living room entertainment/casual hacking box, a 2009-era HP IQ526 TouchSmart touchscreen all-in-one with 4 gigs of RAM, powered by a Core 2 Duo T6600 processor. I used a similar machine at Microsoft…
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: Cancel Or Allow Overload
- New Relic: Say Hello to Parse, New Relic's Newest Mobile Partner
- Coding Horror: The One Button Mystique
- Signal vs. Noise: Some great stuff I've tried recently
- Lee Munroe: NI Election 2011: Viewing the party websites on an iPhone
- Mental Paging Space: End of Nokia
flatui-rails - Designmodo's flat UI sassified and hooked up to the asset pipeline.
Firefox Developer Tools work week wrap-up - Lots of stuff headed down the pipeline. The remoting stuff is especially interesting.
Firefox Terminal V3 - Interactive console in Firefox for JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and LiveScript.
Backbone.js 1.0 - Yep, finally a whole number release.
Riak CS is Now Open Source - So you too can build your own S3-compatible cloud.
- Mike Perham: 12 Gems of Christmas #11 - statsd-ruby
- Viget.com Blogs: Using Time Zones with Rails
- Signal vs. Noise: Welcome Travis Jeffery to 37signals
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
- CRAZ8: New Rails Performance Gem: etag_for
I was watching Ryan Bates' screencast to learn CoffeeScript and he uses a sortable list as an example project.
After following his screencast, I already had a basic to do application started.
Around the same time I had a need to create a share a list with a friend for a project we were working on. I knew of lots of task management apps, but they all required sign up , download or payment.
I just wanted to quickly create and share a list , with no barriers to entry . …
- Topics: Bates
- brant interactive: Project review: ifwinsight.com
- Daddy Fixes Everything: Rails Nested Attributes with Scoped Uniqueness Validation of Association
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Use Deadweight and your integration suite to automatically find unused CSS rules
- Practicing Ruby: James will be right back after these interruptions
- New Relic: The tools we use (and love) at New Relic
- Obie Fernandez: where are un-ordered tools?
Ruby's not the only language that goes well with Rails that got an update. Check out CoffeeScript 1.5!
Here are the major changes in CoffeeScript :
First release of Literate CoffeeScript .
The CoffeeScript REPL is now based on the Node.js REPL, and should work better and more familiarly.
Returning explicit values from constructors is now forbidden. If you want to return an arbitrary value, use a function, not a constructor.
You can now loop over an array …
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Rails 4 compilation links
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1073
- 80beans: Slides for my presentation at Fronteers
- Khelll's Blog: Installing CoffeeScript on Ubuntu
- Signal vs. Noise: How to price something
- Ruby Inside: A Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for July 2012 in 97 Links
…video series, which shows you how to write music software from scratch in Node.js and CoffeeScript: $ 12 per episode $ 9 per episode
And I'm finally bringing my back my time management series, which I only put on sale for a single weekend when I first released it. (It made me over $ 5,000 that weekend.) The first three videos are free, but the price for the fourth, longest, and most detailed : $ 97 $ 41
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