evancz

A vision for data interchange in Elm

How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?

These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.

Literature Review

By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.

philngo

id,content_type,category_id,category_name,grade_id,grade_name,item,description
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,1,Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.a,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,1a,Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.b,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,1b,Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.c,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,1c,"Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes)."
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.d,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,1d,"Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how)."
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.e,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,1e,"Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with)."
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.f,ELA-LITERACY,L,Language,K,Kindergarten,

blaix

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

1. Select a particular experience to pursue.
2. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achievement unlocked!)
3. Reflect on that experience. Really soak it in. Maybe a blog post would be in order?
4. Return to Step 1, this time selecting a new experience.

This gist is a fork of the gist from this blog post.

roine

module Debug.Extra exposing (viewModel)

import Html exposing (Html, p, pre, text)
import Html.Attributes exposing (style)


quote =
    "\""

garybernhardt

Things that programmers don't know but should

(A book that I might eventually write!)

Gary Bernhardt

I imagine each of these chapters being about 2,000 words, making the whole book about the size of a small novel. For comparison, articles in large papers like the New York Times average about 1,200 words. Each topic gets whatever level of detail I can fit into that space. For simple topics, that's a lot of space: I can probably walk through a very basic, but working, implementation of the IP protocol.

blaix

# Mock new instances of a class (verify that it's initialized with specific arguments)
# First argument to __new__ is the class, so pass `object` because we don't care about that part
flexmock(MyClass).should_receive('__new__').once.with_args(object, 'arg1', 'arg2').and_return(fake_object)

MyClass('wrong', 'arguments') # => MethodSignatureError
MyClass('arg1', 'arg2')       # => <fake_object>

jeffrafter

#!/bin/bash

# Much of this came from a few blog articles and one base script that I can't find now
# It is updated for the current VHD files (which supposedly expired on Aug 9th, 2011
# but still work.
#
# Requirements: Virtual Box installed, unrar (from homebrew is fine)
#
# If you want to remove stuff, open up Virtual Box and remove the VM and delete files.
#

blaix

Adventure

An RPG for our entire family.

Requirements

• Use weapons like swords and bows (C), but without hurting or killing (N)
• Gameplay that works for both young (3) and old (10+) kids
• Just enough structure to avoid chaos while still focusing on having fun

blaix

#!/bin/bash

set -e

echo "-----------------------------------------------------"
echo "Installing the essentials..."
echo "-----------------------------------------------------"

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade

blaix

# Enable tabbing to everything
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3

# 2D Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true

# Always expand save dialog
defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true

# Don't hide ~/Library folder