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Re: Fast RFC 3339 date processing in javascript

Kobydiego — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:03:46 -0000

substr is faster than split (with fixed format)

Re: Installing Git on Dreamhost

tobowers — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:32:51 -0000

Thanks. I updated the blog post. Git has upped its version http://www.kernel.org/pub/soft...

Actually - this is way behind what git is actually at *and* dreamhost seems to have git installed on many servers. Go check this out: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Git

Re: Installing Git on Dreamhost

Faraaz Khan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:31:42 -0000

Hi
Nice article, but http://www.kernel.org/pub/soft... is no longer available on the link above, is there somewhere else it found?

Re: The process of software creation

G. Andrew Holz — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:14:10 -0000

Topper, pretty interesting.
We will have to have lunch and discuss it out some time.I am in the process of picking up more info over here at Jesta to compare to our ol' Motionbox process (which wasnt ~real~ Agile though it was very agile.)
The RoR team I am building up in Montreal for Bitbop is seeded with some HARDCORE Agile process people and I we are still fleshing it all out. Its not ~so~ different and we havent gone the full story route but its interesting.

Re: Maintaining Sass constants in one file… the easy, hacky way

markotroll — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:20:10 -0000

Exiting
/Users/marcogodinez/Sites/diseweb/config/environment.rb:6:in `require': /Users/marcogodinez/Sites/diseweb/lib/sass.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kDO or '{' or '(' (SyntaxError)
:style => :nested,
^
/Users/marcogodinez/Sites/diseweb/lib/sass.rb:12: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kDO or '{' or '('
:load_paths => ['.']
^
/Users/marcogodinez/Sites/diseweb/lib/sass.rb:13: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting kEND
}.merge! options
^
/Users/marcogodinez/Sites/diseweb/lib/sass.rb:19: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end

Re: Fast RFC 3339 date processing in javascript

Van Nguyen — Mon, 16 May 2011 00:10:48 -0000

Line 22, is that supposed to be "=" or is it really just doing the comparison and skipping ("==")"==")

Re: New Facebook Javascript API

Özgür — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:50:32 -0000

Hey you can search for P3P header for chrome, ie and so...
this P3P string works for all (safari chrome IE7 and IE8)
CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"

Re: Fast RFC 3339 date processing in javascript

tobowers — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:46:29 -0000

@disappointed - we were using this in a production environment for a couple of years without problem. Do you have an example? Also - in Javascript, you can use strings as arrays (at least in the browsers).

Re: Fast RFC 3339 date processing in javascript

Disappointed — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:23:54 -0000

Doesn't seem to work. I get an error because it treats offsetField as an array and it's just a string. Even after fixing that I get an invalid date time. :(

Re: Resque. Two things to think about.

sshingler — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:54:07 -0000

Thanks for the link to my resque walk through - glad you found it useful. :)

Re: The secret to happy employees

Topper — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:05:53 -0000

Nice blog. Subscribed.

Re: The secret to happy employees

Andrew — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:54:46 -0000

Topper, I could not agree more.

http://innov8ordie.wordpress.c...

Looking back on that it screams for editing but its more or less the same thing.

Re: Zookeeper – Distributed cluster software

Ilya Grigorik — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:32:35 -0000

Awesome! Looking forward to giving this a try.

Re: Rails 2.1 breaks prototype’s responseJSON

Anlek — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:43:42 -0000

Registering a mimetype will fix it:
Mime::Type.register "application/json", :json

Re: Rails thread safety

Topper — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:38:38 -0000

Oh - and that's in rails 2.2.2 at least

Re: Confused about CouchDB changes API?

Jan Lehnardt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:41:40 -0000

Hi,

the book documents the tentative 1.0 release. I should add a note about the 0.10 availability I guess.
The _all_docs_by_seq view is not continuous but very similar, but we might remove it in favour of _changes.

Have you seen the "Comment on" links next to each paragraph (require JavaScript) to send feedback? We'd appreciate receiving feedback there. It makes it easier to fix things in one place and not have info scattered all over the web :)

THanks for you feedback, though, keep it up! :)

Cheers
Jan
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Re: Mamoo released as open source

Ruben MÃ¼ller — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:06:08 -0000

Cool stuff Topper! Gonna experiment with mamoo a bit ...

Re: Message Driven Beans in Jruby

Andrew Chen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:58:18 -0000

hello! You don't have a way for me to get ahold of you via your blog, other than commenting. How do I reach you?

Send me a note back, would enjoy getting introduced.

Re: Deploying a rails app on a suburi

Pat Murray — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:00:17 -0000

Thanks very much, this worked perfectly for me!

I'm also running phusion passenger to deploy my site to a sub-uri.

I already have one site running, and had fixed that one with a combination of statically prefixed routes, and adding the following to my production.rb to fix the stylesheet linking:
ActionController::Base.asset_host = "http://xx.com/specs"

With this solution, I still need to add that line. This seems to be a much better solution though, because if the site was moved to a different sub-uri, only two lines need to be changed!

Re: Screw-Unit javascript mocking

Mark — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:13:33 -0000

Screw unit kinda sucks check out jspec http://visionmedia.github.com/...

Re: Deploying a rails app on a suburi

Topper — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:29:38 -0000

Well... then you're using mongrel :-). Actually I was thinking about this problem yesterday. I don't see a good way except using either your webserver (apache, nginx) or changing your stylesheets. You *could* do that at build time to keep 'em independent while you're developing.

Re: Deploying a rails app on a suburi

Unlike running Mongrel with --prefix, with your solution image URI's in stylesheets will be broken. How to solve that?

Re: Mamoo released as open source

Topper — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:27:11 -0000

Just sent you an email. I think the answer is "yes" with a "but..." :-)

Re: Mamoo released as open source

Justin Meyer — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:01:32 -0000

Would you consider building using this as part of a combined framework with JavaScriptMVC and archetype? We've been trying to get people together with similar ideas together to make a unified framework.

Let me know what you think.

Re: Adobe AIR’s version of webkit and what it does not support in CSS

Topper — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:01:43 -0000

Lukasz: What version are you using? I should clarify that this was written against air 1.1 (two versions ago at the time of this comment)