Andrew Rota andrewrota

What is your folder-structure preference for a large-scale Node.js project?

0: Starting from Rails

This is the reference point. All the other options are based off this.

|-- app
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- admin

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

As easy as 1, 2, 3!

Updated:

Aug, 08, 2022 update config docs for npm 8+
Jul 27, 2021 add private scopes
Jul 22, 2021 add dist tags
Jun 20, 2021 update for --access=public
Sep 07, 2020 update docs for npm version

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Installation

Gist Clients

Want to create a Gist from your editor, the command line, or the Services menu? Here's how.

	build.gradle
	------------
	jmustacheVersion = '1.5'
	dependencies {
	compile 'com.samskivert:jmustache:$jmustacheVersion'
	}

	JMustacheViewResolver.java
	--------------------------
	package org.springframework.servlet.mvc.view.jmustache;

	/**
	* Polyfill for the vw, vh, vm units
	* Requires StyleFix from -prefix-free http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/
	* @author Lea Verou
	*/

	(function() {

	if(!window.StyleFix) {
	return;

	//*******************************************
	// Level 1, basic API, minimum support
	//*******************************************
	/*
	Modules IDs are strings that follow CommonJS
	module names.
	*/

	//To load code at the top level JS file,
	//or inside a module to dynamically fetch