Linkdump for December 24th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
More awesome stuff you can do with PhantomJS:
CSS regression testing. An integration of js-imagediff with PhantomJS and CasperJS for automating visual regression testing and test coverage of Website styling to support refactoring of CSS.
-
Ariya Hidayat, on the JSComplexity tool. The briefest of overviews, but it sounds worth checking out.
-
Garann Means on JavaScript templates. I feel like it's pretty safe to say at this point that she's become one of the field's experts on the subject. I don't agree with every point (sometimes it is totally appropriate to just return some mark-up to your XHR (and/but she's arguing in the comment thread that she "didn’t exactly say that" but anyway…)) but it's a great post. And I think it certainly accomplishes the stated goal: to provide a semi-canonical front-to-back post on how to use JavaScript templates.
-
Joshua Cohen (writing at the Flickr dev blog) breaks down some of the details about the new push notification services for the new Flickr mobile app. I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that they're using Node.js to power the service. It's a pretty long post, but it's worthwhile for the details.
-
By Nola Taylor Redd, writing at Huff Post Science. The funny thing is: I remember when they announced the discovery of the first exoplanet and how big of a deal that was. And now it's like… "How *weird* is the exoplanet?" and/or "OK great — but is it at all like Earth?"
Leave a Reply