Linkdump for August 22nd
¶ by Rob Friesel-
At the NetWallet Eng Blog. They describe how they're doing their automated front-end unit testing using… well, it's all spelled out in the blog post's title.
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Tab Atkins has an interesting proposal for what he's calling "Cascading Attribute Sheets". I'll admit, it took me a little while to understand what he was proposing, but once it clicked, my eyebrows went up. I'm on the fence about whether I'd support this or not. (Paul Irish's concerns in the first comment echo some of my own.) Nevertheless, I see how this might solve a certain family of problems. We'll see…
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At the SourceTree blog by Atlassian. Some of it is specific to their Sourcetree app, but it should help demystify some of the merge vs. rebase differences in Git and Mercurial.
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Everyone loves the Google CDN right? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host the other stuff.
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Russ Olsen (author of Eloquent Ruby), telling InformIT about "The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got":
"In the future, stay the hell out of other people's code," assumes there will be a future. But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory, and initiative over decorum.
(Only, as you can see, the best advice was actually the worst.)
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Ben Horowitz:
Being a good company doesn’t matter when things go well, but it can be the difference between life and death when things go wrong.
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