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written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.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.

liamcurry

Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

davatron5000

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 5,676
• Octopress 2,696
• Middleman 685
• NestaCMS 664
• Statis 509
• Nanoc 355

JeffreyWay

alias server='open http://localhost:8000 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer'

chriseppstein

@mixin ie6 { * html & { @content } }

#logo {
  background-image: url("/images/logo.png");
  @include ie6 { background-image: url("/images/logo.gif"); }
}