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aramon Ask HN: what are the essential courses to became good programmer?

Not a course, but what what Jennifer Dewalt did (180 websites in 180 days [0]) might help you..

aramon Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

Ha! Actually that would go on my nerves even more. I don't like that type of sugarcoating in general. There is a big difference between passionate language and fake passionate language. IMHO this is the latter case.

Last:

Heroku != blog of a random startup

Lead sentence != middle of post

I won't continue as this leads nowhere.

aramon Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

I still don't buy it. I find that type of sugarcoating generally unnecessary and distracting in negative sense, especially when you start the announcement with it.

Either way - thanks for taking the time to explain.

aramon Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

I'm not getting offended; actually I'm mainly a PHP dev.

The sentence just sounds as if you paid $5 someone to write you an intro to a technical matter because you didn't know what to to use.

The sentence is general and without point. Because it is coming from a technical company and is aimed towards technical people, yes, I find it ridiculous.

aramon Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

Pair this with Jeffrey Way's generators and you will end up with something close to what Rails has:

https://github.com/JeffreyWay/Laravel-4-Generators

aramon Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

Speaking about where PHP is heading, I think it's pretty important to mention the funding Fabien Potencier managed to get for SensioLabs (company behind Symfony):

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/71/sensiolabs-raises-5-m...

I haven't seen any mention of that on HN.

Symfony components are used in Laravel and upcoming Drupal 8. The funding above means that SensioLabs will continue to work on solid platform(s) that will bring higher quality development and standards to PHP.

Honestly, I'm pretty happy for that.

aramon Introducing the new PHP on Heroku

Can't get over the way first sentence sounds:

> PHP developers are makers at heart.

What is the difference between a PHP developer and any other developer? If they tried to stick this in the middle, I could swallow it but opening sentence is just ridiculous.

aramon Mini JSFiddle-like HTML/CSS/JS code editor

General information is here:

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/

Minimal editor demo:

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/minimal.html

aramon Show HN: A little todo app with local storage

Drag and drop doesn't seem to work for me in Chrome; other than that, looks nice.

For others: here's the Github repo: https://github.com/lollipierre/react-bullet-app

aramon CSS Diner

Way back NetTuts had a good article with unusual CSS selectors; check it out here:

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-30-css-selectors-you...

aramon Show HN: Metalsmith – A pluggable static site generator

Everything is alright now, thanks :)

aramon Show HN: Metalsmith – A pluggable static site generator

Did anyone else manage to install it? I'm getting a "shasum check failed" error.

The project scaffold generator part sounds pretty interesting because I needed it pretty often and eventually had to build that for myself.

aramon Download Atom editor without an invite

This was the contents of the file created by cURL. I wasn't the only case by upvotes.

However, I tried right now once more and it seems that it's available again.

aramon Download Atom editor without an invite

Yup, results in

    {"message":"Not Found"}

aramon A simple form builder application written with AngularJS

Pretty cool! I was thinking to create the same thing to make building forms less tedious. I usually switch to Jade whenever I have too much HTML to type out.

Question: Why linking to a cloned repo? The fork is 0 commits behind the master, so nothing is changed from the source.

Link to the source repo:

https://github.com/Selmanh/angularjs-form-builder

aramon SensioLabs raises 5m to boost the Symfony PHP ecosystem

This is really big news for the whole PHP ecosystem.

Symfony components and Composer made their way into Laravel and Drupal (new v8), which will hopefully result in "normalizing" the situation and imposing some standards in PHP.

aramon Contact Us

Interesting; however the "E" keybinding doesn't seem to work for me on Chrome @ OSX. No JS errors though. "F" and "T" worked fine.

aramon Buying a laptop, check if it has nVidia Optimus, its purpose is infuriate you

I thought the situation improved a bit with the appearance of ultrabooks; however I haven't had a chance to test one of them thoroughly.

Did they bring higher quality or they are just thinner with slightly better specs/battery?

aramon WebGL Tombstone

Very nice - thanks for sharing!

Diving into WebGL is on my todo list for a long time. Games using it (e.g. Quake) really do look impressive for something that doesn't require any additional plugins to run.

Link to the article:

http://www.pheelicks.com/2013/12/webgl-tombstone-part-1/

Link to the Github repo:

https://github.com/felixpalmer/webgl-tombstone

aramon The year in Kickstarter 2013

Same here; Chrome@Mavericks.

If you check the JS console log, you'll see that this is most probably caused by calling the Mixpanel (analytics/tracking script) track method in slideshow.js (line 12), which triggers an error because Mixpanel is not loaded.

Here's the error: 'Uncaught ReferenceError: mixpanel is not defined'.

aramon Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Git for a version control (mostly) newbie?

Check out Git tutorials from Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket:

https://www.atlassian.com/git/

I suggest reading it from cover-to-cover as they go from basic stuff to more advanced topics.

aramon HN Premii App is now native for iOS and Android

For anyone wondering what's this about, this is the link to the site:

http://hn.premii.com/

It has been a subject of several discussions here. Even though originally a web app, it provides a much better/smoother/better looking experience than most of the HN apps for both iOS and Android.

At least on iOS, the app allows you to continue reading where you left off. This wasn't possible if you just added the app to the home screen in iOS for example.

Also, Android app is here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

aramon WordPress 3.8 Released: Responsive in and out

Seems that WP.org domain is blacklisted on HN - I got the message "Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time." when I submitted the link below, even though it's far from being spam.

Original announcement is here:

http://wordpress.org/news/2013/12/parker/

aramon Writing a modern web app with Go, TDD, REST, and AngularJS

Slides

http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/campoy/todo/talk/talk...

Github repo:

https://github.com/campoy/todo

aramon Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

sferik has a commit for each day over the past year:

https://github.com/sferik

It's the first time I see a full year streak!

aramon Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Has Raised Over $500k On Kickstarter

Website:

http://www.poweruptoys.com/pages/app-toys

Kickstarter campaign page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/393053146/powerup-30-sma...

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the project in any way.

aramon Full-featured websites, quicker than ever before

For anyone interested, here's the direct link to the screencast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQCXDWh7Wg

And the list of currently supported skeleton applications:

http://docpad.org/docs/skeletons

aramon Powerchair: A dad hacks a wheelchair for his disabled 2-year-old son

I do understand that and I agree. My point is that it's simply not fair that someone who is chasing the ball around the field/court gets 8-digit annual paycheck, while someone who helps solve real problems doesn't see a percent of that.

This touches a much deeper topic and won't most likely be related directly to the original post, so I'll stop here :)

aramon Fold the DOM like paper

Strange - everything is working the same way as in Chrome for me.

aramon Powerchair: A dad hacks a wheelchair for his disabled 2-year-old son

I completely agree; it's the same thing as with entertainment/sports industry. Football/basketball players are paid obscene amounts of money, while what they do does not have much real value.

Thanks for sharing the link.