Many of my favorite programmers have two things in common: They care about elegance. They care more about innovation. Many of my favorite hackers are widely criticized. Matt Mullenweg is one such hacker. His code is subservient to his vision. WordPress’s code is written in PHP, without an external framework. It is PHP that is [...]
don’t build libraries instead build applications from the bottom up
This is a proposal for a new file format. The TSV file format is very simple. It requires that fields be delimited by tabs, and has a limitation that tabs can’t appear within fields. Newlines are also forbidden inside a field. The JSON file format is both simple and powerful, but it can be a [...]
If you want to use Backbone.js’s extend function on your own class, all you have to do is this: Backbone’s extend function is the same between Backbone’s classes. It just uses the prototype it was called with. MyModel1 and MyModel2 in the following example would be equivalent:
Steve Klabnik wrote a great article called Rails has Two Default Stacks. This is the best mental model I’ve found for the major factions within the rails community. It breaks down if you start considering various deployment options, but I realized that it’s better not to. Deployment stacks can change more rapidly, and have more [...]