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kenneth_chau

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kenneth_chau··on I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/shop/download-win...
kenneth_chau··on A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of
I was about to put this down. Although, the C# world requires an IDisposable interface and implies that you're operating on a resource.

Ruby has similar concept when you open a file and pass in a block to operate on the File object.

I'm pretty sure the author is just excited about the language and failed to recognize that this pattern is everywhere in different programming languages.

kenneth_chau··on DressRush Pitch Deck
Which seems wrong to me. Only ONE COUPLE spends 28k per wedding. The cap should really be $28k/wedding * 2.7mil wedding. Fancy design, flawed math.
kenneth_chau··on Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage
Why are these big name companies still relying on exactly ONE web host? These companies are centralizing failures to just one cloud host. They definitely need to abstract cloud deployment with something like libcloud and jcloud APIs and make use of multiple cloud deployments on a dime. As for storage, they should have replications set up on other cloud hosts as well.
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
SourceKit 0.6.2 is OUT! No more asking for email, pass; now with more Dojo and Ace! http://bit.ly/dRvLmb
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
Asking, but not storing.
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
I was inspired actually by the CR-48. As your JS engines get faster, these sorts of software would be more relevant. I 1st PERSONAL milestone is to develop this very software with itself rather than Textmate :)
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
To clear this up, I am switching to Ace in my next major release.
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
I personally hope the likes of SourceKit and Cloud9 IDE and such will someday replace the likes of Textmate and Eclipse. It'll be a dream when you have VCS, documentation, collaboration, IDE / text editor, running environments all be accessible by everything (including your tablets!!)
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
It looks like both of us are hitting something here. People seem to be VERY enthusiastic about this. I am very excited to have pieced together some amazing technologies.

Joel, I actually saw your app and thought that it was quite amazing looking (it gave me hope in Ace actually!)

kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
I plan to utilize the Dojo's data API as an abstraction layer on top of many different kinds of drivers. I also have thought a bit about what sorts of SERVER side integration this can have - with the potential of websockets, I can see a RESTful git/hg server to be a next logical step!
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
I'm collecting these feedbacks and compiling some user stories for SourceKit. Stay tuned!
kenneth_chau··on Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
BTW, I'm the author of this software. So I've been trying to figure out how to save things locally for awhile. I realized that HTML5 has a File System API which in Chrome 9 can FINALLY write to the local SANDBOXED environment. This feature is planned!!