BlogWay to Stars RequireJS vs. Browserify vs. Stitch vs. Brunch
I spent 1.5 days examining different asset management tools for web development, here results. requirejs https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs : Watch Mode : Yes CoffeeScript : It seems Yes Templates/Jade/Eco : Yes Styles/Less/Stylus : Don’t know NPM compatible : No incompatible with Node.JS module system, server-side testing will be hard ...
2 months, alex, 3 comments
Неформально о CouchDB (и сравнение с MongoDB)
Перечитал повторно http://guide.couchdb.org/ (первый раз в 2008г) документацию по CouchDB и погонял несколько примеров. Интересно читать про то как он устроен, одна из немногих книг “расширяюших сознание”, очень интересные техники, однозначно стоит потраченного времени даже если я никогда не буду его использовать. Итак, что в нем хорошего: ...
5 months, alex, 2 comments
MS Dynamics CRM
В 2007 я одно время работал агентом по продажам (оптимизация и автоматизация бизнеса) и мы использовали Dynamics CRM внутри компании, это одна из самых отстойных программ что мне приходилось пользоваться. Случайно в старых записях нашел список претензий который написал тогда: Ужасно тормозная (наверно есть медленнее, но я не видел) Нельзя ...
6 months, alex
Experimenting with Underscore.js, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript
For last month I experimented with Underscore.js, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript and Rad, so here’s a short report about this expirience and some code: If You ever want to inject underscore.js into native JavaScript objects – here’s how to do it http://bit.ly/vPzfLI And here’s short comparison of the same code with and without backbone.js (simple ...
6 months, alex
One possible cause why MySpace failed
I’ve heard rumors that MySpace was the first big social network, and some wondered – why it failed and things like Facebook or LinkedIn that came much later wins. I actually never used or had any interest in MySpace, but todays I checked profile of some guy there, and I believe I know one possible reason why it failed. I think it failed because ...
6 months, alex
Interesting BBC series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_Your_Own_Drugs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Survival http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears%27_World_of_Survival_(TV_series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_vs._Wild
7 months, alex
re-Learning Node.JS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript
Why node.js is important http://medriscoll.com/post/4741853977/node-js-and-the-javascript-age Чем интересен node.js и почему за ним будущее http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/nodejs/117887 Things to explore: https://github.com/ry/node_chat http://try-jasmine.heroku.com/ https://github.com/spencertipping/js-in-ten-minutes ...
8 months, alex, 1 comment
I changed my opinion about Lisp / Clojure
I changed my opinion about Lisp / Clojure after: watching this presentation about Concurrency, Persistent Data Structures and Managed References. reading Paul Graham’s Beating the Average article. There are two things I didn’t like in Lisp – prefix notation and lots of parenthesis, but, recently I found that prefix notation has some advantages ...
8 months, alex, 1 comment
Measure of Perfection
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery. So, the more simple the thing is the more it is perfect. The Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is a measure of the computational resources needed to specify the object. More formally, ...
8 months, alex
Dropping MongoMapper & Mongoid and going with MongoModel
Releasing new version of Rad SBS this time built with MongoModel. I drop MongoMapper because it uses complicated proxy-wrappers that makes it very hard to work with embedded models, and dropping Mongoid because of ugly API.
8 months, alex
Тупые бизнес-советы
Во время 2й мировой при бомбардировках немцы сбивали часть самолетов и англичане хотели выяснить – можно ли как-то уменьшить потери. Для этого проанализировали характер повреждений вернувшихся самолетов – больше всего следов от пуль было в хвосте и на месте второго пилота-наводчика, в районе перого пилота повреждений почти не было. Первым ...
9 months, alex
9 months, alex
New site for Ruby Documentation
Accidentally saw thread about the ugly and outdated ruby doc site http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/2291748 and decided to setup a new one. Here it is http://ruby-doc.info with new shiny design, sources https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/ruby-doc . All taken about hour and half (buy domain & setup github pages hosting), wonder why no one did it ...
10 months, alex
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