jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

jimtla

# Five lines of code that will make your underscore + CoffeeScript use cleaner.
# Creates an underscore function for each function in to_reverse with R (short for Reversed) appended to the name.
# The R version moves the function argument (first argument in normal underscore) to the end, 
# so you can write:
$(window).scroll _.throttleR 500, ->
    console.log "This print's at most every 500ms"

# Instead of:
$(window).scroll _.throttle ->
        console.log "This prints at most every 500ms too"

addyosmani

Generally one implements notifications by listening for events on specific models but if one wishes to have a single global message interchange, it could be done as follows:

var pubsub = new Backbone.Model;

View1 = Backbone.View.extend({
  initialize: function(){
    pubsub.bind('custom event', callback);
  }
 // ...

steckel

window.DeviceRedirect = class DeviceRedirect
  constructor: (@platforms, @envRegEx, @ignoreList...) ->

  init: ->
    @currentLocation = window.location.href.toLowerCase()
    @isHere = if @currentLocation.match @envRegEx then true else false

    ismobile = (/iphone|ipod|android|blackberry|opera mini|opera mobi|windows phone|palm|iemobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()))
    istablet = (/ipad|tablet/i.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()))
    isdesktop = if ismobile or istablet then false else true

OscarGodson

#Why I Don't Use CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript in of itself, and not as a transpiled language, is slick. The problem for me is what it's supposedly "fixing".

##Syntax Sugar

For a Rails and Python developer JS is ugly (as I hear). You have... dun dun dun, curly brackets and white space doesn't mean anything (oh the humanity!). But, I like my whitespace. I like not being restricted on how I write my code aesthetically. Not to mention CoffeeScript is by far less human readable than JavaScript. Programming languages, IMO, need to be a good balance of both human and machine readable. Simple example:

cube = (x) -> square(x) * x

ryanflorence

(function (name, definition){
  if (typeof define === 'function'){ // AMD
    define(definition);
  } else if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) { // Node.js
    module.exports = definition();
  } else { // Browser
    var theModule = definition(), global = this, old = global[name];
    theModule.noConflict = function () {
      global[name] = old;
      return theModule;

sj26

(function($){
  var touch = {}, touchTimeout;

  function parentIfText(node){
    return 'tagName' in node ? node : node.parentNode;
  }

  function swipeDirection(x1, x2, y1, y2){
    var xDelta = Math.abs(x1 - x2), yDelta = Math.abs(y1 - y2);
    if (xDelta >= yDelta) {

chriseppstein

@import "compass/utilities/sprites/base";

// General Sprite Defaults
// You can override them before you import this file.
$icon-sprite-base-class: ".icon-sprite" !default;
$icon-sprite-dimensions: false !default;
$icon-position: 0% !default;
$icon-spacing: 0 !default;
$icon-repeat: no-repeat !default;