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A top-down look into Elixir (for Rubyists)

Phoenix (as "Rails for Elixir")
- Rails and Phoenix can get suspiciously similar
- A code sample:
controller.rb

Meteor Alternatives Per Feature

This table was created in 2015 so may be quite outdated today.

Feature	Meteor Solution	Alternative Solutions	Description
Live DB Sync	[livequery][lq] ([mongo-oplog]), [ddp]	RethinkDB, Redis, ShareDB, [npm:mongo-oplog], [firebase], etc.	Push DB updates to client/server.
Latency Compensation, Optimistic UI	[minimongo][mm]	[RethinkDB][lcr], [mWater/minimongo] (fork, not ws but http, browserify)	Imitate successful db query on client before it is done.
Isomorphic Code	[isobuild] & isopacks	browserify	Write one code for server/client/mobile.
Isomorphic Packaging	[isobuild], atmosphere		No more separate packages for server & client. Get bower + npm + mobile.

Working with multiple blueprint files

This document describes 4 different solutions to work APIs that consist of multiple blueprint files. Every of this solution work with all Apiary.io features but editing. To edit a blueprint you have to do it outside of Apiary as Apiary editor does not support working with multiple files. In other words if you are using one of the solutions below avoid editing the blueprint in Apiary.

1. Hercule

Hercule is a CLI tool written in Node.js – available as an NPM package. It uses markdown referencing and linking syntax to transclude other files into a blueprint file. This solution is universal and would work with any Markdown files not just API Blueprint.

The major benefit – unlike any other solutions here – is also that the references are rendered as HTML links in any Markdown editor so the result is HTML that can be browsed!

Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio

	// Usage:
	// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
	// then use as follows:
	//
	// query(term \| [term, term, ...], term \| [term, term, ...], ...)
	//
	// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
	//
	// Term is of the format:
	// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'selenium-webdriver'

	wd = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, url: 'http://10.3.1.7:4444/wd/hub', desired_capabilities: :chrome
	wd.navigate.to 'https://snipt.net/restrada/python-selenium-workaround-for-full-page-screenshot-using-chromedriver-2x/'

	# Get the actual page dimensions using javascript
	#
	width = wd.execute_script("return Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth, document.body.offsetWidth, document.documentElement.clientWidth, document.documentElement.scrollWidth, document.documentElement.offsetWidth);")

	$.fn.SPA = function( options ) {
	// default settings
	var settings = $.extend({
	toggling_sections: ".toggling",
	base_link: "a[href^='#']",
	}, options );
	// setup initial page layout
	$(settings["toggling_sections"]).hide();
	// event listeners for links
	$(settings["base_link"]).click(function(e){

	import json
	import requests
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

	result = {}

	url = 'http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/by-date.0.html'
	res = requests.get(url)
	soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text)

	##########################################
	# To run:
	# curl -sSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sirkkalap/e87cd580a47b180a7d32/raw/d9c9ebae4f5cf64eed4676e8aedac265b5a51bfa/Install-Docker-on-Linux-Mint.sh \| bash -x
	##########################################

	# Check that HTTPS transport is available to APT
	if [ ! -e /usr/lib/apt/methods/https ]; then
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
	fi

	/*
	Meteor allows you to store functions on the server for handling things like data.
	This is the server-side component to the Meteor.call() example in add-taco.js.
	*/

	Meteor.methods({
	// Define our method. Note, we're passing an argument for the tacoToInsert value we passed to our Meteor.call() method.
	'addTaco': function(tacoName){
	// Here we do our insert again.
	Tacos.insert({