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CoffeeScript VS JavaScript

The code examples are actually taken directly from an early version of DocPad before and after tha javascript rewrite. We now handle these cases a lot better in terms of callback hell by utilising task groups with bal-util, however the issue of the readability and error proneness of the verbose syntax in javascript is key these code examples.

There is also a larger issue that I see at the core of JavaScript, which is detailed in the following email response:

Question: Would ES6's implementation of easier classes in JavaScript, make you consider moving back to JavaScript from CoffeeScript?

Answer: Well there are lot more issues in JavaScript than its current complexity with writing code.

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

DocPad Nifties

A listing of all the nifties that people have come up with for DocPad.

Now maintained on the DocPad Website's Plugins Page under "Nifties"

What I want for library logging

I write Node.js libraries, and I want logging. Why is this so problematic?

Note, I am despairing about how library authors log stuff not how application builders decide on a logging framework.

Hopefully this document can become a spec or feature list for code I will write some day.

The antipattern

use travis-ci to publish to github

Demo

docpad

The docpad-plugin-ghpages uses the following information to stitch a new repo with contents of ./out directory onto root of your gh-pages branch:

git config user.email
git config user.name

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	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
	// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
	// ie === undefined
	// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
	// ie === 7; // IE7
	// Thus, to detect IE:
	// if (ie) {}

	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
	// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
	// ----------------------------------------------------------
	// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 6) then:
	// ie === 0
	// If you're in IE (>=6) then you can determine which version:
	// ie === 7; // IE7
	// Thus, to detect IE:
	// if (ie) {}

	#!/bin/bash
	# bash generate random alphanumeric string
	#

	# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and
	NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom \| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' \| fold -w 32 \| head -n 1)

	# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
	cat /dev/urandom \| tr -dc 'a-z0-9' \| fold -w 32 \| head -n 1