maxogden

minimalist testing FTW! (e.g. node-tap style). cant wait for a way for this to automatically run for me every time i update my githubz and then send me robot pictures representing my test status (sad robots for failing tests, happy robots for passing tests)

I've heard from many people that with Couch you get "all of your disappointment up front"

one of couch's strong points is that it is great at giving away your data. most startup bros find that antithetical to their business model

the module wiki page is being removed soon (hopefully)

I strongly disagree, and find the hand illustrated approach incredibly refreshing amongst the sea of cookie cutter web apps.

timelines suggest that requests was inspired by https://github.com/mikeal/request from the land of node

theres this great thing called npmjs.org that is a place for stuff like this if I am not mistaken

http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ is a neat tool for staying motivated

... in which the Radar rises to face the Factor

nice FUD headline

At NodeConf Summercamp this week Ryan Dahl remarked that the V8 team is very responsive and happy to fix to reports such as "this part of V8 is slow and shouldn't be, can you please make it faster".

He also acknowledged that Google is obviously building V8 for Chrome and not Node and shouldn't be expected to spend time and money on features that aren't beneficial to Chrome. One example of this is the time required to spawn a new V8 context, around 30ms. It could be made drastically faster if all security features were removed from the V8 boot process (not needed for server side trusted execution environments) but Google needs secure VMs for Chrome tabs and it wouldn't make sense for Chrome to spend time optimizing V8 for this use case.

I didn't get the feeling, however, as this article implies, that V8 is a "roadblock" for Node.

cool. I noticed you didn't have an API for videos so made one for you: http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/lanyrd_videos/

you should donate p2pu.com to p2pu.org since they are doing amazing work for a great cause

equivalent in node: http://github.com/mikeal/request equivalent in jquery: https://github.com/iriscouch/request_jquery

if you go into chrome's about:flags you can enable leveldb now :D the tools are slowly getting there!

to implement a couch you need a key/value store with transactions so you can atomically update the by-sequence index and the key/value storage simultaneously. pouch is neat because it does this in your browser (or on top of any leveldb) so that you can replicate and sync databases anywhere you can run pouch. i'd love to see more databases implement replication but sadly not many database developers think to store by-sequence indexes or expose their databases over http

For the record: ScraperWiki is about %95 open source: https://bitbucket.org/ScraperWiki/scraperwiki/src and Github has an incredible open source presence: https://github.com/github. Meanwhile... https://github.com/buzzdata

I'm not trolling, I'm just a big fan of open data -- especially community driven approaches.

lots of overlap with http://scraperwiki.com but lacking open source or APIs. I dig their emphasis on social but I hope they improve the data portion and focus less on the buzz

also see the related http://iconathon.org initiative which is a series of icon brainstorming hackathons in a bunch of cities

demo: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/ferriswhee...

You aren't skilled in the art of using Github

-10 points to Engadget for inaccuracy. This is a side project of a guy who uses Mozilla stuff, and not an official Mozilla project. It is, however, based on Mozilla Chromeless.

"The Webian project is a not-for-profit venture founded by Ben Francis. Ben is a full time software engineer at a startup in Cambridge (England)."

"...when Mozilla Chromeless came along it was suddenly possible to rapidly develop a working prototype using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. As a member of the wider Mozilla community this was an opportunity I couldn’t resist..."

Refine rules! I've built some stuff that ya'll might find useful for hooking it up to the web (specifically CouchDB):

https://github.com/maxogden/refine-uploader https://github.com/maxogden/refine-processor https://github.com/maxogden/refine-python https://github.com/maxogden/refine-ruby

not to be confused with https://github.com/mikeal/jspp

when released, data.gov was the largest RDF triple store in the world #funfact

Pretty awesome! I've been working on a couchdb ostatus app for a few months. You guys can use the frontend if you want: http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora

Reminds me of https://github.com/jivesoftware/jiverscripts. Check out the conc.observable component

I'm wondering if proprietary data startups kill the "open" internet. Do any of these companies allow users to collect all of the data that they generated and export it?

this is awesome. thank you for spending time on the wysiwyg problem and double thank you for keeping it open source.

do you have a couch replication endpoint exposed through your api?

selena: is this not a conflict of interest with troll academy?