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nyrb··on Try typing charleswhitmore.com into your url bar
or fastest way: curl charleswhitmore.com
nyrb··on Objectify: A Better Way to Build Rails Applications
Objectify is a nice framework, but after reading the examples in README made me feel like I am required to take extra iterations: create new responder files, write more codes for each Responder class, etc. This approach is little tedious.

I personally think that writing reusable libraries using Decorator/Presenter patterns or Modules with ActiveSupport::Concern is simple approach.

Avdi's slides: https://speakerdeck.com/u/avdi/p/making-little-classes-out-o...

I highly recommend Objects on Rails book: http://objectsonrails.com/

nyrb··on Minority Report for $70
Someone already posted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002418
nyrb··on Getting Real book is now free PDF
Same here and I would also love to see the epub version of it, too.
nyrb··on Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app
Congrats! I have been using this Streaks (iOS) for a while since I like the functionality of this and it has options where you can skip weekends: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streaks-motivational-calendar...

I will try this app now!

nyrb··on Rails Console Tips
it would be nice to have a community site where people can share some tricks in any programming languages/tools.

Similar site I have been waiting for since Feb: http://rubyreloaded.com/trickshots/

nyrb··on Say hello to Octicons
Codeshelver looks nice. I have been using Gitmarks for a while and its amazing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapn...

nyrb··on Light Table Is On Kickstarter
Was going to pledge the project, but saw "it is browser-based, it will packaged in a webview of some kind so that it feels like a normal app". Nothing wrong with browser-based editor, but I am comfortable with native app. That's my personal preference.
nyrb··on Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site
still getting application error.
nyrb··on Ace - Sinatra for Node with Fibers
+1 ACE Editor and Ace - Sinatra for Node might be confusing.

Maybe name it "Frank" (Frank Sinatra) or "Ray" (Ray Charles). :-)

nyrb··on Show HN: my weekend project, Gumb.io - a Gumroad Marketplace
Even people can use gumroad for donations for open source projects or anything.
nyrb··on Show HN: my weekend project, Gumb.io - a Gumroad Marketplace
BTW, it would be nice to have the ability to delete link and re-enter the link because I have modified details @ gumroad and then your site is still saved old information.

For example:

I updated info: https://gumroad.com/l/gsg

nyrb··on Show HN: my weekend project, Gumb.io - a Gumroad Marketplace
I really like the idea here. Good lucrative opportunity.

So I can start selling some projects and source codes I have crafted.

nyrb··on ASCII interactive fluid animation
This is really cool, but it is intensely consuming the 80% of my cpu resource (osx 10.7.3 intel dual core & 8gb ram).
nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
Thanks for suggestion. I need to find powerful API like http://api.ihackernews.com/.

I'll improve the site tonight and this weekend.

nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
No. The API I am using might not work. I need to find powerful API than http://api.ihackernews.com
nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
Thanks for suggestion. I'll update the site tonight

Sorry for not working since API isn't responsive. :-(

nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
Yeah I wasn't expecting the issue. I think the API I use is getting hammered. Gauges said I have 1k unique visitors in 20 mins.

http://api.ihackernews.com is all I can find but alternative one is what I'm looking for.

nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
No. Sounds like the API (http://api.ihackernews.com/) is randomly on or off. I need to look at alternatives.
nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
Look like the API I am using is hammered

I am using http://api.ihackernews.com

I will look at issues when I am home.

nyrb··on Show HN: Pinterest for Hacker News
I was experimenting the new version of Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 and the responsive design. It turned out pretty great and then I have decided to extended it to more additions as the following:

* http://bootstrap.io/ for layout design / responsive design

* http://backbonejs.org/ for router (collection/view will be added soon)

* http://url2png.com for web thumbnail

* http://subtlepatterns.com for background wallpaper

* http://icanhazjs.com for rendering template

I am still improving the site as I am learning more about bootstrap and backbone.js. I hope you guys are enjoying the site.

nyrb··on Show HN: My weekend project to learn Javascript - 'Pinterest for Hacker News'
Awesome. We have same mind. I built similar project like this for experiment few weeks ago. I am using twitter bootstrap, jquery, mustache.js, and url2png for screenshot.

I'll put it online later.

nyrb··on Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.
Sorry if I have to ask, what part is not 100% true? You mean that padrino app can be still faster with large app?

You said there are more than "Hello World" benchmarks? I looked at the link that you provided and then looked at this source code of the Padrino app and its still "Hello World":

https://github.com/DAddYE/web-frameworks-benchmark/blob/more...

I expected to see something more than just Hello World app.

I am trying to see why you are suggesting me that Padrino is better than Rails. :-) Sounds like you are completely against Rails. Maybe I am wrong.

nyrb··on 37Signals benchmarks uptime vs five leading webapps
6 minutes downtime for Github? Github is amazing. That's all. :-)
nyrb··on Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.
I am not against the Padrino web framework. I still like it. :-)

So your benchmark only have tested against the small "Hello World" app. Maybe that's why I suggested that Padrino framework is pretty ideal for small/personal/API projects for fastest responses.

Have you tried benchmarking your one of biggest padrino apps?

nyrb··on Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.
Padrino is really nice web framework for Ruby. I have used it for experimental projects.

My work was using latest Padrino framework at work, but extremely unhappy with the its performance (slow response). We had ported the app to Rails 3.1 for better performance. (We will upgrade it to 3.2 soon)

In fact, I think Padrino is pretty ideal for personal and small apps. Not really ideal for medium to large apps.

Just my opinion and experience.

nyrb··on New MVC client side JavaScript framework - Serenade.js
Nice to see another JavaScript MVC Framework written in CoffeeScript. Almost like Spine.js (http://spinejs.com/) A new thing to try it out later, but I'll stay with Backbone.js for now.
nyrb··on Is That Pinterest? Nope, No It’s Not
is http://www.pinspire.com/ down? "The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."
nyrb··on CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning
Ditto. They will say the same thing, you should know X before using Y. Example:

Objective-C -> MacRuby; Slim/HAML/Jade -> HTML; SASS/LESS -> CSS and so on...

nyrb··on Snake game in a data: URI
it works in Chrome after refresh.
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