tmcw

Software is layered.

Documentation is not. If your documentation states

Run npm install foo to install this module

It is really saying

tmcw

Abridged History of Tech & Related Reads

Way back in the day devseed did Drupal. We saw two main problems with it:

• It tried to hit lots of different usecases and handled this by growing ever-larger instead of becoming modular
• It was slow

We couldn't respond to #2 because it was the 'essential quality' of Drupal being built on PHP/MySQL and having 'make everything dynamic' as an essential property.

We responded to #1 with the 'smallcore idea': http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/oct/28/smallcore-manifesto-help-us-build-better-teddy-bear/ This was semi-successful but was a hard sell because Drupal's module infrastructure was brittle and had the impossible goal of making programming-like tasks available as configuration.

mbostock

license: gpl-3.0

eyeseast

<div id="chart">
    <h4>Percent of adults over 25 with at least a bachelor's degree:</h4>
    <p><strong>Median:</strong> <span class="median"></span></p>
    <small>Source: <cite><a href="http://census.gov">U.S. Census Bureau</a></cite>, via <cite><a href="http://beta.censusreporter.org/compare/01000US/040/table/?release=acs2011_1yr&table=B15003">Census Reporter</a></cite></small>
</div>

mbostock

license: gpl-3.0

jsvine

Tabletop.js is a fantastic, open-source JavaScript library that lets developers easily integrate data from Google Spreadsheets into their online projects. I've used it, even contributed a minor feature, and love it for prototyping. Non-programmers love being able to update a project via Google Spreadsheets' hyper-intuitive interface.

That said, I'm extraordinarily wary of using Tabletop in production. Instead, at the Wall Street Journal, we use a bit of middleware to "prune" our Google Spreadsheets-based data and then cache it on our own servers. A few brief reasons:

• Short-Term Reliability. With Tabletop, your project depends on Google not to rate-limit access to your spreadsheet. Google rate-limits access to their Spreadsheet API, though the thresholds aren't clear. If you're building an app you care about, you don't want to be i

jeffrafter

var express = require('express');
var sys = require('sys');
var oauth = require('oauth');

var app = express.createServer();

var _twitterConsumerKey = "YOURTWITTERCONSUMERKEY";
var _twitterConsumerSecret = "YOURTWITTERCONSUMERSECRET";

function consumer() {

tmcw

This is a non-technical reading list for technical people.

• How to Program Independent Games
• Kill Math (and Don't Kill Math)
• Move Fast and Don't Break Things
• Launch & The Web Is a Customer Service Medium by Paul Ford
• _why at Art & Code
• Repetitive Process

This is a list of software you should read like a novel.

mbostock

Collections

each(array)

Underscore example:

_.each([1, 2, 3], function(num) { alert(num); });

imjasonh

* {
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: monospace;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: default;
}