chantastic

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

jakebellacera

/* 
 * CSS Time to Milliseconds
 * by Jake Bellacera (http://jakebellacera.com)
 * ============================================
 * 
 * Converts CSS time into milliseconds. Useful for timing functions around CSS animations.
 * It supports both seconds (s) and milliseconds (ms).
 * 
 * Arguments:
 *   time_string - string representation of a CSS time unit (e.g. "1500ms" or "1.5s")

dnagir

# spec/support/timezone.rb
module TimeZoneHelpers
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  def self.randomise_timezone!
    offsets = ActiveSupport::TimeZone.all.group_by(&:formatted_offset)
    zones = offsets[offsets.keys.sample] # Random offset to better vary the time zone differences
    Time.zone = zones.sample # Random zone from the offset (can be just 1st, but let's do random)
    puts "Current rand time zone: #{Time.zone}. Repro: Time.zone = #{Time.zone.name.inspect}"
  end

webinista

/*
Page Visibility wrapper
Tiffany B. Brown <http://tiffanybbrown.com/>
Released under an MIT license.

This script adds a wrapper around prefixed versions of 
document.visibilityState and document.hidden so that you can use a
single syntax and listen for a single event.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

travisp

class InvitationsController < Devise::InvitationsController

  # GET /resource/invitation/accept?invitation_token=abcdef
  def edit
    if params[:invitation_token] && self.resource = resource_class.to_adapter.find_first( :invitation_token => params[:invitation_token] )
      session[:invitation_token] = params[:invitation_token]
      render :edit
    else
      set_flash_message(:alert, :invitation_token_invalid)
      redirect_to after_sign_out_path_for(resource_name)

isaacsanders

This is a post by Joel Spolsky. The original post is linked at the bottom.

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer.

The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else. Why? Because if I split the company 60-40, the company is going to fail when we argue ourselves to death. And if you ju

NARKOZ

# requires BSD sed
namespace :whitespace do
  desc 'Removes trailing whitespace'
  task :cleanup do
    sh %{for f in `find . -type f | grep -v .git | grep -v ./vendor | grep -v ./tmp | egrep ".(rb|js|haml|html|css|sass)"`;
          do sed -i '' 's/ *$//g' "$f";
        done}, {:verbose => false}
    puts "Task cleanup done"
  end