the secret to building large apps
¶ by !undefined“The secret to building large apps is NEVER build large apps.†– Justin B. Meyer, “Organizing A jQuery Applicationâ€
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“The secret to building large apps is NEVER build large apps.†– Justin B. Meyer, “Organizing A jQuery Applicationâ€
Stoyan Stefanov’s “WPO (Web Performance Optimization)†presentation from PubCon 2010
“You don’t have to believe that help is on the way. I only ask that when it arrives, you take just as much ferocious advantage of the new reality as you do of the current one.†– Alex Russell, “Story Time!â€
Functionality Focused Code Organization by Rebecca Murphey (and her related blog post)
stevenf:
This terminal command will turn every file in the current directory into a zip file of itself (removing the original file):
for item in *; do zip -m “${item}.zip” “${item}”; done
I recently used it to shave 20Â GB off a collection of uncompr…
“The more code I write, the more code I get wrong. Therefore, it behooves me to write as little code as possible.†– by ??? (albeit via Alex Payne)
It has been a while since I played around much with launchd, but I ran across a problem recently that it seemed perfectly suited to solve. The challenge was as follows: there is a particular application that I need to run as root. When that application persists files, those files get written with root as […]
When I wrote 10 things I love about Sass, I included mixins on that list; and though I mentioned that they can be written to take arguments, I did not fully explore that. Combined with Sass’ functions and directives, parameterized mixins can really cut down on the repetitive CSS you need to write–especially when it […]
CSS. Verbose, repetitive, rife with bizarre quirks. Can’t say that I’m a fan. On the web, you’re using it out of necessity. Even the CSS masters out there must admit, there has got to be something better. Fortunately, there’s Sass. A super-set of CSS, it helps to eliminate some of CSS’s most obnoxious aspects during […]
In preparation for an up-coming post 1, I did a bit of extra legwork on syntax highlighting plugins for WordPress and wound up switching from Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress (GSHW) 2 to SyntaxHighlighterPro. Both of them are backed by Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter library. But more on that in a moment. What prompted the […]