rolandoam

You should not use OOP (in javascript)

I've been coding javascript for some time now, including interacting with several javascript VMs.

Having said that, this is just a rant about what I think could be a good approach on how to actually do things in javascript. This after looking at how other projects are dealing with it, my personal experience and finally "getting" the way javascript was meant to be used (if there's such a thing). I do not consider myself an expert in javascript, so take whatever you read here with a grain of salt and think of it as just my personal experience and of course, I'll be happy to hear what you know or your best practices around it.

The real purpose for this post is to initiate a discussion about the subject of not really using OOP when dealing with javascript, and the good way to design and think about

angus-c

//usage
withAdvice.call(targetObject);

//mixin augments target object with around, before and after methods
//method is the base method, advice is the augmenting function
withAdvice: function() {
  ['before', 'after', 'around'].forEach(function(m) {
    this[m] = function(method, advice) {
      if (typeof this[method] == 'function') {
        return this[method] = fn[m](this[method], advice);

gordonbrander

var StateMachine = {
  // Register valid states for this object.
  __states__: {
    'success': ['failure'],
    'failure': ['success']
  },

  // Set initial state.
  __state__: 'success',

trey

Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

davatron5000

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 5,676
• Octopress 2,696
• Middleman 685
• NestaCMS 664
• Statis 509
• Nanoc 355

Raynos

ES6 what can be shimmed and what not.

Currently only lists things that can be shimmed or are experimentally implemented

Note that for any kind of decent ES6 support we need an ES6 transpiler. A few projects are attempting this [Reference SO question][3]

• [traceur][4]
• [Caja][5]
• [ES transpiler][6]

dvessel

This will enable Sass+Compass with LiveReload through Guard. (Guard screen cast)

You will also need a browser component to communicate with LiveReload. (browser extension, livereload.js)

If you prefer going through a GUI, that option is available. The following instructions is specific to Mac OS X and it works through the command line.

Note that this is not specific to Rails projects. This can work for any standalone front-end project.

Instructions

jimweirich

# When I posted the results of the Roman Numeral Calculator kata
# earlier this week, I said that I felt that the evolution of the code
# through TDD was much more interesting than the final result.  Let me
# explain.
#
# First, some background.  The goal of this Kata is to produce a
# RomanNumeralCalculator object that converts from arabic numbers to
# Roman numerals, and from Roman numerals back to arabic.

  Then { calculate("1").should == "I" }

endolith

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