Austin Bales arbales

BDD, Bourbon Driven Development
a state of optimum flow where programming bliss is achieved
through three fingers of the finest American whiskeys.
See also, Bourbon and Branching

I click a link in Facebook or Twitter, I don't care about the URL. I care about content.

Sure, that link points to a URL, but I don't know what it is, and I'll never remember it. It could even be a really sensible URL, like http://odopod.com/blog/hack-days-2011-coming-november/ — but I still won't remember it. URLs are implementation details for content on the web, not content in themselves.

People want to share. They're probably doing it with Facebook or Twitter. Being able to share a link to content isn't dependent on a native or non-native experience, it's neutral. Even if your native app had a URL bar, you wouldn't want to copy and paste that into a thing and send that thing to someone, you want to press share and press a person.

Look, I love web apps — I even build one for a living! But users consistently appreciate native apps on iPhone (this doesn't apply to Android) because of the constraints of the HIG and the SDK.

	$ chrome app:push
	# Checking manifest… [ OK ]
	# Creating zip ball… [ OK ]
	# Uploading to chrome.google.com [ OK ]
	# Pushed `Kitten App v1.0.12`
	#
	# See chrome -h app:publish for publishing help.


	$ chrome app:publish latest --app $CHROME_APP_IDENTIFIER

	class ApplicationRouter extends Backbone.Router
	ApplicationRouter.FEATURE_SPLASH_CURRENT_VERSION = 1

	routes:
	'' : '_index'
	':workspaceId' : '_index'
	':workspaceId/:type' : '_list'
	':workspaceId/:type/:id' : '_detail'
	':workspaceId/:type/:typeId/tasks/:taskId' : '_detail'
	':workspaceId/projects/:projectId/activity' : '_activity'

	[30] deathstar » u.update_attribute :avatar, nil
	[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : (0.1ms) BEGIN
	[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : User Load (0.4ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."authentication_token" = 'HVFEqWx2Ez6skS6vLx4x' LIMIT 1
	[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : (0.4ms) UPDATE "users" SET "avatar" = '18b7c9da-fe75-4bce-b526-76f215026890.png', "authentication_token" = 'HVFEqWx2Ez6skS6vLx4x', "updated_at" = '2012-04-20 00:13:28.494414' WHERE "users"."id" = 2
	[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : (1.9ms) COMMIT

	#!/usr/bin/env rackup
	#\ -E deployment


	# Put this file alongside the static content you'd like to serve
	# then just run `rackup`

	use Rack::ContentLength

	app = Rack::Directory.new Dir.pwd

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="/path/to/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script src="/path/to/jquery.kittenize.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<script src="/path/to/sabrina.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<title>Sabrina</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<h1>Hi!</h1>
	<p class='kittens'>Kittens go here.</p>

	Feature: Keyboard Shortcut
	In order to quickly save a bookmark to my inbox
	As a Mac user
	I want to be able to press a key combination and be given instant feedback

	Scenario: Save grove.io
	Given I have a browser tab open to http://grove.io
	And I have the Kippt extension installed
	When I press `Command` + `K`
	Then the Kippt extension should illuminate

	LINK_DETECTION_REGEX = /(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}\|aero\|arpa\|biz\|com\|coop\|edu\|gov\|info\|int\|jobs\|mil\|museum\|name\|nato\|net\|org\|pro\|travel\|local\|internal))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.])(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&])?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()+.=-_~:@/?]*)?)(\s+\|$)/gi

	EMOJI_DIRECTORY = "/path/to/assets/emoji/20x20"

	# Handlebars is presumed, but you could swap out
	ESCAPE_EXPRESSION_FUNCTION = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression
	MARKSAFE_FUNCTION = (str) -> new Handlebars.SafeString(str)


	# Emoji unicode chars become images.

	cd /path/to/asq && \
	git remote set-url origin [email protected]:arbales/asq.git && \
	git remote add heroku [email protected]:asq.git