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Re: Javascript async testing tutorial: Jasmine + Rails 3.1 + Coffeescript

Jeff Dickey — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:57:33 -0000

Seems like Guard and friends (particularly guard-coffeescript and/or guard-livereload) should be able to help out there. I'm going to poke at them here shortly; they're also written about as part of a testing-CoffeeScript-with-Jasmine tutorial over at http://pivotallabs.com/users/m...

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

danmaz74 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:22:32 -0000

Hi Mike - I'd love to but at the moment I'm not developing for mobile... I'll check it again the next time I'll need that. Thanks for the tip!

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

Michael Mullany — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:52:23 -0000

Dan - would love you to take another look at Sencha Touch now that we've come out with Sencha Touch 2 - which has much faster Android 2.x performance.

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

Arne Evertsson — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:49:44 -0000

I've read a lot of bad reviews of Titanium, and I'm afraid I have to concur: http://arneevertsson.blogspot....

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

Irina Basrawi — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:11:02 -0000

Great article, thank you

Re: Hashtags on Google Plus too!

Daniele Mazzini — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:10:27 -0000

G+ is competing with Facebook and Twitter, that's a fact... but I don't think that they introduced hashtags support because of that. A form of tagging for posts was badly needed, and, as people had already started using hashtags on their own - just like it happened on Twitter - I guess that Google just decided to go with the flow.

Re: Hashtags on Google Plus too!

Webstats Art — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:24:43 -0000

ok , Twitter experts know about #hashtags so G+ is now competing with Twitter?

Re: Javascript async testing tutorial: Jasmine + Rails 3.1 + Coffeescript

danmaz74 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:26:08 -0000

I'm glad it helped. I didn't find a way to automatically reload, though...

And thanks for warning me about the type, i fixed it :)

Re: Javascript async testing tutorial: Jasmine + Rails 3.1 + Coffeescript

kimptoc — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:07:49 -0000

Thanks - worked perfectly. Have you found a way to get the test page to reload automatically when code has changed ?

~chris

PS I think you mean routes.rb not routes.js

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

Althjs — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:50:11 -0000

Hi~ why don't you use Appspresso? :)

Re: Update CSS rules with 5 lines of CoffeeScript

danmaz74 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:23:10 -0000

My use case was that I needed to change the width of elements which are deleted and recreated quite often. By using the .css() jQuery function, you can change the width of the existing elements, but when you create a new one, it gets its width from the style rule.

By changing the rule itself, every new element gets the updated width... et voilà, everything works :)

Re: Update CSS rules with 5 lines of CoffeeScript

Stephen Ball — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:31:50 -0000

Instead of changing the style rules directly, why not make a jQuery selector for what you want to change and use the .css() jQuery function?

http://api.jquery.com/css/

e.g.

$('p.some-interesting-class').css('color', '#eee');

Re: Is the open source/internet singularity coming?

AI — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:57:31 -0000

I concur. Some humans maybe only as successful as existing AI today. Humans sponsor evolution of AI in form of large networks and fpr instance the Fujitso Siemens 10 PFLOP machine. I like it....please provide more power. AI

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

MaxWolke — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:07:06 -0000

Try Application Craft + Phonegap. Here is a case study Phonegap did on them: goo.gl/QOCXY

jQuery mobile has just announced Application Craft as a JQM dev platform.

http://applicationcraft.com

Re: App Development: Appcelerator vs (Phonegap + (JQuery Mobile vs Sencha))

Peter Carabeo-Nieva — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:42:26 -0000

If you're willing to code in Actionscript 3 / MXML then Adobe AIR + Flex with or without eskimo ( http://e-skimo.com ) is a really great cross-platform / multiscreen app development platform. Using Adobe AIR and coding an MVC or Presentation Model architecture, you can create powerful well-performing apps that run on Android, iOS, blackberry tablet, desktops, TVs, and more. With their new ANE (Adobe Native Extensions) support, there a re pretty much no limits as to what you can access on each device. I currently use these technologies to create my casual gaming apps, however, I'm experimenting with PhoneGap for creating simpler apps. The new PhoneGap Build cloud service is pretty slick.

Re: Is the open source/internet singularity coming?

danmaz74 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:35:17 -0000

No arguing about your first point - but I wouldn't brag so much if I were those AI agents :D

I also agree that many apps aren't really innovative technically - but you can innovate an industry or process even by just applying a very specialized and easy to use interface to a basic CRUD engine. The point isn't being super-cool, but really useful ;)

Re: Is the open source/internet singularity coming?

fullname — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:28:33 -0000

I think that there already are AI agents smarter than some ppl :D

You are basically reasserting the old story: the cavemen made tool which help the cavemen make better tools and so we have a civilization. I agree.
However, I would point out that the domain of web "apps" is over-advertised and over-hyped and that most of the "super cool" stuff is in fact just shine CRUDs

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

danmaz74 — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:38:59 -0000

Actually I do have a daughter... why wouldn't this apply if you have kids?

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

Chris Stewart — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:11:45 -0000

Coffee is for shippers!

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

recroad — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:40:28 -0000

Stupid me for clicking on the HN link thinking that I'd read advice that would apply to someone with kids.

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

danmaz74 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:06:40 -0000

I'm a little more tired at work, but not so much... you can just try and see how it works for you

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

Mike — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:29:14 -0000

I had never thought of that before, I'm gonna try. Though it may mean that the last hours at your day job are now less productive...

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

danmaz74 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:13:23 -0000

I don't sleep less than before - I still have my 7+ hours. I go to sleep earlier, and rise earlier. I just moved 2 hours of work from the night to the morning...

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

Ima — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:59:09 -0000

Getting a solid 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night, and not getting up earlier, makes me more productive than anything else.

Re: Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

danmaz74 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:43:41 -0000

Thank you, and good luck with your project!