balupton

CoffeeScript VS JavaScript

The code examples are actually taken directly from an early version of DocPad before and after tha javascript rewrite. We now handle these cases a lot better in terms of callback hell by utilising task groups with bal-util, however the issue of the readability and error proneness of the verbose syntax in javascript is key these code examples.

There is also a larger issue that I see at the core of JavaScript, which is detailed in the following email response:

Question: Would ES6's implementation of easier classes in JavaScript, make you consider moving back to JavaScript from CoffeeScript?

Answer: Well there are lot more issues in JavaScript than its current complexity with writing code.

balupton

DocPad Nifties

A listing of all the nifties that people have come up with for DocPad.

Now maintained on the DocPad Website's Plugins Page under "Nifties"

jhs

What I want for library logging

I write Node.js libraries, and I want logging. Why is this so problematic?

Note, I am despairing about how library authors log stuff not how application builders decide on a logging framework.

Hopefully this document can become a spec or feature list for code I will write some day.

The antipattern

balupton

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rstacruz

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    // es2015 - based off of v6.3.13
    // https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/packages/babel-preset-es2015/index.js
    [require('babel-plugin-transform-es2015-template-literals'), { loose: true }],
    require('babel-plugin-transform-es2015-literals'),
    require('babel-plugin-transform-es2015-function-name'),
    require('babel-plugin-transform-es2015-arrow-functions'),
    require('babel-plugin-transform-es2015-block-scoped-functions'),
    [require('babel-plugin-transform-es2015-classes'), { loose: true }],

balupton

DocPad Continuous Deployment

These scripts are to compliment the DocPad Continuous Deployment Guide.

cowboy

// ----------------------------------------------------------
// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 6) then:
//     ie === 0
// If you're in IE (>=6) then you can determine which version:
//     ie === 7; // IE7
// Thus, to detect IE:
//     if (ie) {}

balupton

Some thoughts on a new CMS, in different progressions.

balupton

This gist is used to contain list of issues I've encountered with entities. Luckily, all have been resolved.

bewest

use travis-ci to publish to github

Demo

docpad

The docpad-plugin-ghpages uses the following information to stitch a new repo with contents of ./out directory onto root of your gh-pages branch:

• git config user.email
• git config user.name