Last week I thought I'd move a few hundred lines of our build process from our custom build tool to grunt.
I ran into a problem with grunt.task.run queuing a task but not
waiting for the task to complete before continuing or ensuring
execution order
(relevant testcase).
Maybe it was problem with the child processes not executing
I ran into some trouble writing jasmine unit tests for request.pipe today.
Exposing the request module instead of modifying require or stubbing request was easiest:
# actions.coffee
request = require 'request'
module.exports =
| import math | |
| def eratosthenes(n): | |
| """ | |
| Sieve of Eratosthenes | |
| >>> eratosthenes(19) | |
| [1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19] |
CSS transforms for text to make rudimentary Boustrophedons, writing like the turning of an ox plowing a field.
View with blocks: http://bl.ocks.org/d/3816099/
Figure 6 of this paper looks like a weave sorting visualization.
Do different types of unsorted data correspond to certain kinds of knots or do we just visualize them in similar ways?
If the max and min of an unsorted array correspond to ends of a string and an unknotted string corresponds to a sorted array, then untying data seems similar to sorting a string.
Might be covered rigorously in one of these classes:
Playing with smalltalk over the weekend.
Got through the koans and some of the tutorial. Some notes:
Smalltalk has Ruby-style blocks or, more likely, Ruby inherited blocks from smalltalk.
Not much about methods for Object-Oriented language, presumably because everything is a method.
Smalltalk message chaining looks like Javascript method chaining or
Python 3.3 was released recently.
Better property-based testing with function signatures
Inspect for closures and generators should make testing things that aren't classes easier
ChainMap should clean up template languages and could provide JS prototype styles lookups
Learned about the webbrowser module (it's not new, but Chrome support is):
| body { | |
| font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; | |
| font-weight: 200; | |
| margin: 50px 0; | |
| padding: 0; | |
| -webkit-user-select: none; | |
| -khtml-user-select: none; | |
| -moz-user-select: none; | |
| -o-user-select: none; | |
| user-select: none; |
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Kaprekar's Routine</title> | |
| <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> | |
| <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/2.10.0/d3.v2.min.js"></script> | |
| <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.3.1/underscore-min.js"></script> | |
| <script src="kaprekate.js"></script> |