Alexander Weissman alexweissman

Note: these are pretty rough notes I made for my team on the fly as I was reading through some pages. Some could be mildly inaccurate but hopefully not terribly so. I might resort to convenient fiction & simplification sometimes.

My top contenders, mostly based on popularity / community etc:

Angular
Backbone
React
Ember

Mostly about MVC (or derivatives, MVP / MVVM).

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Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

Mac OS X LEMP Configuration

This Gist is a collection of configuration files that can be used to easily setup a Homebrew-based LEMP stack on Mac OS X.

Files in this repository are numbered and named for ordering purposes only. At the top of each file is a section of metadata that denote what component the file belongs to and the default name & location of the file. Feel free to implement it however you want.

Note: some configuration files have hard-coded paths to my user directory -- fix it for your setup

Setup

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

	<?php
	// All file paths relative to root
	chdir(dirname(__DIR__));
	require "vendor/autoload.php";

	$settings = ['foo' => 'FOO', 'bar' => 'BAR'];
	$app = new \Slim\App($settings);


	// Set some things into the container

	<?php
	/*

	UserFrosting Version: 0.2.2
	By Alex Weissman
	Copyright (c) 2014

	Based on the UserCake user management system, v2.0.2.
	Copyright (c) 2009-2012

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html class="fuelux">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
	<title>Snippets</title>
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

	<!-- dependencies -->

	server {
	client_body_in_file_only clean;
	client_body_buffer_size 32K;

	client_max_body_size 300M;

	sendfile on;
	send_timeout 300s;
	# Port that the web server will listen on.
	#listen 80;

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
	</head>
	<body>

	<div id="animals" data-animals='["cat", "dog", "bird"]'></div>
	<div id="vehicles" data-vehicles='{"motorcycle":"Harley", "car":"Herbie", "steamshovel":"Mike"}'></div>