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trungonnewson Gotchas, Irritants and Warts in Go Web Development

You should try out Play2 on Scala if Go doesn't work for you.

trungonnewson Pin Payments Signups are Open

Stripe for au? :)

trungonnewson How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime

The time to migrate your database will only get larger over time as the data grow. Looking toward to your follow up post. :)

trungonnewson How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime

what happens if it takes more than 15 seconds to migrate the database?

trungonnewson Writing Web Applications in Go

Hey. If you can do all of that without requiring any assistance from a good IDE, then you have my respect. :)

However, I'm still sticking to my point. Debugging your code using Printf feels like 1990s.

trungonnewson Writing Web Applications in Go

This sounds like me when I was still in college trying to hack out a 100 line of code for a small programming assignment... But this approach does not scale with a million line of code project. Anyone with real programming experience can tell you this. Corporates don't just shell out thousand of dollars for an IDE license for no reason. :)

trungonnewson Writing Web Applications in Go

I used that plugin too. It's still missing the debugging support.

trungonnewson Writing Web Applications in Go

Question for Gophers. How do you guys debug your code? What IDE do you use?

Scala works beautifully with IDEA IDE, one of the best IDE out there! GUI debugger just works out of the box.

I tried using Go for a little bit but I find IDE and tooling support for Go is a bit lacking. Do people consider these aspects anymore when they evaluate a new language? A proper IDE support can greatly boost your productivity!

trungonnewson Why we love Twitter Bootstrap and why you should too

Thanks. I'm using YUI in my app right now. Adding jQuery along with Bootstrap is a huge overhead for me.

trungonnewson Why we love Twitter Bootstrap and why you should too

Can I use bootstrap without jQuery?

trungonnewson Server-side view or client-side MVC?

Use Yahoo Mojito. Same MVC code on both server and client.

trungonnewson Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there?

Yui3 over jQuery any day.

trungonnewson Forge - an easy way to accept payments online, powered by Balanced (YC W11)

Ah. Thanks.

trungonnewson Forge - an easy way to accept payments online, powered by Balanced (YC W11)

Are you guys doing the exact same thing as Stripe Checkout? https://stripe.com/docs/checkout

trungonnewson Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server

Have you guys checked out Yahoo Mojito? It aims to solve the exact same problem. It's a bit cleaner than DerbyJS and Meteor too.

trungonnewson Ask HN: Still considering Google App Engine?

There is no real need to use app engine anymore.

Just use Heroku with MongoDB for Ruby On Rails deployment. :)

trungonnewson An in-progress JRuby port of notch's 48 hour "Ludum Dare" game competition entry

jruby is getting better everyday. :)

trungonnewson Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms

yup. it's a bitch getting the iframe to resize when the credit card form shrinks or grows.

trungonnewson Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms

If you're going to advertise Recurly as a secured payment product, then you need to do everything you can to prevent third parties and the merchant from peeking at your credit card form.

On any given web page, it can easily bring in 10 or more external JS libraries. So the chance of one of them getting compromised can only go higher. You need to make sure that your product can survive a cross site scripting attack.

And you need to protect your product against your own merchant because those misbehaved merchants can give your business a bad name. Let them steal their users' credit card, but just don't let them steal it from Recurly's credit card form...

You could have solved these two security issues if you spend a little more effort and put the credit card form inside Recurly owned iframe. But I guess your engineering team took a short cut. :)

trungonnewson Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms

socialgold had a similar product before google acquired it.

trungonnewson Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms

You're missing the point.

While the user is entering the credit card number, there's a chance that someone can intercept and steal the CC.

You can easily solve this problem by putting the credit card form inside your own iframe. :)

trungonnewson Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms

How is this PCI compliance?

You're exposing credit card number on the input field of the original publisher's HTML page. This means that the publisher can pick up the credit card number himself, or an included third party javascript library(like google analytics).

trungonnewson Twitter Bootstrap

I am guessing that the internal apps users don't run IE. :)

trungonnewson LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store

how is this different from membase?

trungonnewson Google+ will burst the tech bubble

btw, Facebook Like button is way more popular than Google +1 button.

On my website, for every 1000 Facebook like button clicked, there is only one Google +1 button clicked.

proof: http://likehub.com/

trungonnewson Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

http://likehub.com/

No revenue because my AdSense account was banned a few years back. :(

trungonnewson Tame.JS: Flow-control by the makers of OkCupid.com