guerrerocarlos

// Require.js allows us to configure shortcut alias
require.config({
  // The shim config allows us to configure dependencies for
  // scripts that do not call define() to register a module
  shim: {
    'socketio': {
      exports: 'io'
    },
    'underscore': {
      exports: '_'

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

stbuehler

/*
compile with:
  gcc -shared -fPIC fix_umask.c -o fix_umask.so

edit /usr/bin/subl to include (fix the path to fix_umask.so if necessary):

  #!/bin/sh
  export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/sublime_text/fix_umask.so
  exec /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text "$@"

anlutro

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e

# function to easily determine if a set of programs and files are available.
function deploy_programs_available {
	local programs=(npm bower grunt)
	local files=(package.json bower.json Gruntfile.js)

	for p in ${programs[@]}; do

subudeepak

WebSockets - An Introduction

WebSockets is a modern HTML5 standard which makes communication between client and server a lot more simpler than ever. We are all familiar with the technology of sockets. Sockets have been fundamental to network communication for a long time but usually the communication over the browser has been restricted. The general restrictions

• The server used to have a permanent listener while the client (aka browser) was not designated any fixed listener for a more long term connection. Hence, every communication was restricted to the client demanding and the server responding.
• This meant that unless the client requested for a particular resource, the server was unable to push such a resource to the client.
• This was detrimental since the client is then forced to check with the server at regular intervals. This meant a lot of libraries focused on optimizing asynchronous calls and identifying the response of asynchronous calls. Notably t

yantonov

How to install GHC from source + latest stack + cabal + cabal-install on ubuntu

for your convinience this instuction is available as:
gist
git repo

preferred way install stack than install ghc

stack (package manager and build tool, preferrered way to manage dependencies)

# settings

cridenour

Setting up Vim as your Go IDE

Intro

I've been wanting to do a serious project in Go. One thing holding me back has been a my working environment. As a huge PyCharm user, I was hoping the Go IDE plugin for IntelliJ IDEA would fit my needs. However, it never felt quite right. After a previous experiment a few years ago using Vim, I knew how powerful it could be if I put in the time to make it so. Luckily there are plugins for almost anything you need to do with Go or what you would expect form and IDE. While this is no where near comprehensive, it will get you writing code, building and testing with the power you would expect from Vim.

Getting Started

I'm assuming you're coming with a clean slate. For me this was OSX so I used MacVim. There is nothing in my config files that assumes this is the case.

hungryzi

Visualizing Vietname population density by provinces/cities.

paf31

This blog post series has moved here.

You might also be interested in the 2016 version.