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arbales / gist:2582170
Created May 3, 2012 00:33
$ chrome app:push
# Checking manifest… [ OK ]
# Creating zip ball… [ OK ]
# Uploading to chrome.google.com [ OK ]
# Pushed `Kitten App v1.0.12`
#
# See chrome -h app:publish for publishing help.
$ chrome app:publish latest --app $CHROME_APP_IDENTIFIER
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arbales / ApplicationRouter.js.coffee
Created May 1, 2012 23:39
class ApplicationRouter extends Backbone.Router
ApplicationRouter.FEATURE_SPLASH_CURRENT_VERSION = 1
routes:
'' : '_index'
':workspaceId' : '_index'
':workspaceId/:type' : '_list'
':workspaceId/:type/:id' : '_detail'
':workspaceId/:type/:typeId/tasks/:taskId' : '_detail'
':workspaceId/projects/:projectId/activity' : '_activity'
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arbales / gist:2424995
Created April 20, 2012 00:25
[30] deathstar » u.update_attribute :avatar, nil
[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : (0.1ms) BEGIN
[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : User Load (0.4ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."authentication_token" = 'HVFEqWx2Ez6skS6vLx4x' LIMIT 1
[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : (0.4ms) UPDATE "users" SET "avatar" = '18b7c9da-fe75-4bce-b526-76f215026890.png', "authentication_token" = 'HVFEqWx2Ez6skS6vLx4x', "updated_at" = '2012-04-20 00:13:28.494414' WHERE "users"."id" = 2
[2012-04-19 17:13:28] DEBUG ActiveRecord::Base : (1.9ms) COMMIT
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arbales / config.ru
Created April 17, 2012 20:49
#!/usr/bin/env rackup
#\ -E deployment
# Put this file alongside the static content you'd like to serve
# then just run `rackup`
use Rack::ContentLength
app = Rack::Directory.new Dir.pwd
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arbales / sabrina.html
Created February 29, 2012 22:52
<html>
<head>
<script src="/path/to/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/path/to/jquery.kittenize.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/path/to/sabrina.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<title>Sabrina</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hi!</h1>
<p class='kittens'>Kittens go here.</p>
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arbales / gist:1714738
Created February 1, 2012 02:40
Feature: Keyboard Shortcut
In order to quickly save a bookmark to my inbox
As a Mac user
I want to be able to press a key combination and be given instant feedback
Scenario: Save grove.io
Given I have a browser tab open to http://grove.io
And I have the Kippt extension installed
When I press `Command` + `K`
Then the Kippt extension should illuminate
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arbales / handlebars-formatTextForHTML.coffee
Created January 22, 2012 00:08
Replace URLs with links and unicode emoji with images.
LINK_DETECTION_REGEX = /(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|travel|local|internal))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)*(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.]*)(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&amp;]*)?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+.=-_~:@/?]*)?)(\s+|$)/gi
EMOJI_DIRECTORY = "/path/to/assets/emoji/20x20"
# Handlebars is presumed, but you could swap out
ESCAPE_EXPRESSION_FUNCTION = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression
MARKSAFE_FUNCTION = (str) -> new Handlebars.SafeString(str)
# Emoji unicode chars become images.
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arbales / gist:1536467
Created December 29, 2011 22:24
cd /path/to/asq && \
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:arbales/asq.git && \
git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:asq.git
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arbales / bdd.mdown
Created November 12, 2011 00:21
Bourbon Driven Development

BDD, Bourbon Driven Development
a state of optimum flow where programming bliss is achieved
through three fingers of the finest American whiskeys.
See also, Bourbon and Branching

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arbales / gist:1354013
Created November 10, 2011 03:16

I click a link in Facebook or Twitter, I don't care about the URL. I care about content.

Sure, that link points to a URL, but I don't know what it is, and I'll never remember it. It could even be a really sensible URL, like http://odopod.com/blog/hack-days-2011-coming-november/ — but I still won't remember it. URLs are implementation details for content on the web, not content in themselves.

People want to share. They're probably doing it with Facebook or Twitter. Being able to share a link to content isn't dependent on a native or non-native experience, it's neutral. Even if your native app had a URL bar, you wouldn't want to copy and paste that into a thing and send that thing to someone, you want to press share and press a person.

Look, I love web apps — I even build one for a living! But users consistently appreciate native apps on iPhone (this doesn't apply to Android) because of the constraints of the HIG and the SDK.