A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.
- "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
- "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens
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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
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.
# From http://garmoncheg.blogspot.com/2012/06/pretty-git-log.html | |
git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --" |
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<title>Site Maintenance</title> | |
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body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; } | |
h1 { font-size: 50px; } | |
body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; } | |
article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; } | |
a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; } | |
a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; } | |
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echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
. ~/.bashrc | |
mkdir ~/local | |
mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
cd ~/node-latest-install | |
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
./configure --prefix=~/local | |
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |