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staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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padolsey

describe(' a tribute ')
  .to(' the syntactical hubris of attempting ')
    .to(' present logic flows as grammatically coherent ')
      .english()
it(' is a foolish attempt ')
  .for(' it aids aesthetically but limits functionally ')
    .and()
      .truly(' misidentifies ')
        .a(' difficulty in the understanding of code ')
        .foolishly(' attributing understandability of it to its ')

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

jessedc

Setting up PHP on Mountain Lion from scratch

Editing text files from the command line is made easier with TextMate with it's command line extension mate OR Sublime text2 with command line extensions. However the built in nano text editor is easy to use as well.

Some guidance gleaned form from coolestguyplanettech.com

Change permissions on /Library/WebServer/Documents so all users can write to it

sudo chmod -R o+w /Library/WebServer/Documents