Damir Mustafin frenchbread

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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.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.

Prereq:

apt-get install zsh
apt-get install git-core

Getting zsh to work in ubuntu is weird, since sh does not understand the source command. So, you do this to install zsh

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	package="com.cards.notification">

	<uses-sdk
	android:minSdkVersion="17"
	android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

	<application
	android:allowBackup="true"

	-spec get_timestamp() -> integer().
	get_timestamp() ->
	{Mega, Sec, Micro} = os:timestamp(),
	(Mega1000000 + Sec)1000 + round(Micro/1000).

	/**
	* Convert From/To Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal in JavaScript
	* https://gist.github.com/faisalman
	*
	* Copyright 2012-2015, Faisalman <[email protected]>
	* Licensed under The MIT License
	* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license
	*/

	(function(){

	/**
	* Like, basically PERFECT scrollbars
	*/

	/*
	It's pure CSS.
	Since a quick google search will confirm people going crazy about Mac OS Lion scrollbars...
	this has no fade-out effect.

	In Mac OS Lion, the lowest common denominator is always showing scrollbars by a setting.