Michael Yang themichaelyang

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

Taken from https://web.archive.org/web/20130517134339/http://bulba.sdsu.edu/jeanette/thesis/PennTags.html (since the source document now appears to be offline)

Penn Treebank II Tags

Note: This information comes from "Bracketing Guidelines for Treebank II Style Penn Treebank Project" - part of the documentation that comes with the Penn Treebank.

Hidden classes in JavaScript and Inline Caching

Knowing how internals work is always a good. Pretty much for everything. Cars, trains, computers, you name it. It gives you an insight on what happens under the hood. You also act/react differently based on this knowledge.

As you might have guessed, it’s also true for web development. Knowledge of CSS transitions allows you to achieve better performance and not to use JavaScript in most cases. Knowledge of V8 internals allows you to write more performant JavaScript code. So let’s talk about V8 a little.

A little about V8

V8 is a JavaScript engine built by Google. Firefox built SpiderMonkey, Opera built Carakan and Microsoft built Chakra. One very important difference between V8 and other JavaScript engines is that V8 doesn’t generate any intermediate code. It compiles JavaScr

Pry Cheat Sheet

Youtube Tutorial 2013

Command Line

pry -r ./config/app_init_file.rb - load your app into a pry session (look at the file loaded by config.ru)
pry -r ./config/environment.rb - load your rails into a pry session

Debugger

	# source : http://code.google.com/p/natvpn/source/browse/trunk/stun_server_list
	# A list of available STUN server.

	stun.l.google.com:19302
	stun1.l.google.com:19302
	stun2.l.google.com:19302
	stun3.l.google.com:19302
	stun4.l.google.com:19302
	stun01.sipphone.com
	stun.ekiga.net

	# -- Conf --
	[color]
	branch = auto
	diff = auto
	status = auto
	showbranch = auto
	ui = true

	# color.branch
	# A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or

	/* Solarized Dark

	For use with Jekyll and Pygments

	http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

	SOLARIZED HEX ROLE
	--------- -------- ------------------------------------------
	base03 #002b36 background
	base01 #586e75 comments / secondary content

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	import ChildElement from './my-element/components/child-element'

	// registerElement exists on any DOM element which provides namespacing
	document.body.registerElement('my-element', Blink);

	class Blink extends HTMLElement {
	constructor() {
	this.addEventListener('click', this.win);

	// This is namespaced inside of my-element because that is where it is registered.