paulirish

I wrote this in early January 2012, but never finished it. The research and thinking in this area led to a lot of the design of Yeoman and talks like "Javascript Development Workflow of 2013", "Web Application Development Workflow" and "App development stack for JS developers" (surpisingly little overlap in those talks, btw).

Now it's June 2013 and the state of web app tooling has matured quite a bit. But here's a snapshot of the story from 18 months ago, even if a little ugly and incomplete. :p

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In the beginning…

• Intro to tooling

dhh

Hi David,
I came across your profile online and wanted to reach out about Development
Opportunities here at Groupon. The company is growing, and we're always
looking for folks with solid skills that can make positive contribution to
our continued success. Any chance you'd be open to a quick conversation
about opportunities, or for any possible networking potential? If so, let me
know when you're free and we can set up a time to chat. Also, if you are
interested, it would be great if you could forward a current resume over
that I can take a look at. I look forward to hearing back from you! Please
let me know if you have any questions.

markrendle

Update, September 2016

OK, you can pretty much ignore what I wrote below this update, because it doesn't really apply anymore.

I wrote this over a year ago, and at the time I had spent a couple of weeks trying to get Kafka 0.8 working with .NET and then Node.js with much frustration and very little success. I was rather angry. It keeps getting linked, though, and just popped up on Hacker News, so here's sort of an update, although I haven't used Kafka at all this year so I don't really have any new information.

In the end, we managed to get things working with a Node.js client, although we continued to have problems, both with our code and with managing a Kafka/Zookeeper cluster generally. What made it worse was that I did not then, and do not now, believe that Kafka was the correct solution for that particular problem at that particular company. What they were trying to achieve could have been done more simply with any number of other messaging systems, with a subscriber reading messages off and writing

KyleAMathews

Disclaimer

I'm still very new to Kafka, eventsourcing, stream processing, etc. I'm in the middle of building my first production system with this stuff and am writing this at the request of a few folks on Twitter. So if you do have experience, please do me and anyone else reading this a favor by pointing out things I get wrong :)

Inspirations

• The Log — http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
• Turning the database inside out — http://www.confluent.io/blog/2015/03/04/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/
• Why local state is a fundamental primitive in stream processing — http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/why-local-state-is-a-fundamental-primitive-in-stream-processing.html
• Samza
• Various functional systems been exposed to over past year or so, React, Flux, RX, etc.

rails

var DateHelper = {
  // Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time
  // Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT
  time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) {
    var date = new Date; 
    date.setTime(Date.parse(from));
    return this.time_ago_in_words(date);
  },
  
  time_ago_in_words: function(from) {

bobby

(ns datomic-helpers
  (:require [datomic.api     :as d]))

;;; Expose Datomic vars here, for convenience

;;; Ring middleware

(defn wrap-datomic
  "A Ring middleware that provides a request-consistent database connection and
  value for the life of a request."

brentertz

## Prepare ###################################################################

# Remove RVM
rvm implode

# Ensure your homebrew is working properly and up to date
brew doctor
brew update

## Install ###################################################################

DavidYKay

Jeremy
    Absolutely brilliant
        both technically
        and oratorically
    He wrote CoffeeScript
    1st place 5k 
    21 min, 3 seconds
    <7min mile

Big picture

stolsma

These instructions work for the Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (hard float) and create a hardware optimized version of NodeJS for the Raspberry PI, (and include a working install and NPM!!!):

1. Install Raspbian - http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

2. Install the necessary dependecies:

sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential

(If you just installed git then you need to administer your git identity first, else adding the patches below will fail!!!)

geddski

function nestCollection(model, attributeName, nestedCollection) {
    //setup nested references
    for (var i = 0; i < nestedCollection.length; i++) {
      model.attributes[attributeName][i] = nestedCollection.at(i).attributes;
    }
    //create empty arrays if none

    nestedCollection.bind('add', function (initiative) {
      if (!model.get(attributeName)) {
        model.attributes[attributeName] = [];