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This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
You're Missing the Point of Promises
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most
basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic",function(err,results){// the rest of your code goes here.
Framing digital humanities in libraries as a service to be provided and consequently centering the focus of the discussion on faculty members or others outside the library seem likely to stall rather than foster libraries engagement with digital humanities. I want digital humanities work in libraries that is innovative and iterative but that contributes back to the mission of (academic) libraries. The MITH-University Libraries Digital Humanities Incubator is a local effort to make that happen.
Last week, Miriam Posner started an interesting discussion online with a blog post about some of the [challenges of doing digital humanities in libraries][posner]. Posner identifies challenges rooted in the structure of libraries as organizations, in the organizational position of libraries within universities, and in (academic) library culture.
As a former Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University Library, and someone who has done [research on digital humani
Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:
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Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.
I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".
Make "Paste and Indent" the default paste in Sublime Text 2
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