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Major Geddy updates

In the most recent round of updates, Larz Conwell has done a shit-ton of amazing work on templates: making the templating system play nicely with various formats: EJS, Mustache, and Jade. It can now happily figure out what sort of template from the file-extension, and you can even mix and

Fleegix on Geddy

It's taken some time, a lot of late-night hacking, and tons of work by contributors like Daniel Erickson and Larz Conwell , but the Geddy Web framework is starting to grow up and become pretty fucking solid. It's finally far enough along I can replace my old

Older programmers with families considered harmful?

At a recent meetup, a guy in the community (a guy whom I generally have a lot of respect for) said one of the stupidest things I've heard in a long time (and that's saying something, given the silly shit I hear coming out of my

Logan, client- and server-side JavaScript test runner

Some of the work I'm doing at Yammer involves writing JavaScript code that runs in different environments. We're using geddy-model code in the browser, as well as with TheRubyRacer (which embeds the V8 JavaScript interpreter in a Ruby process). This code is part of the Geddy

Geddy models/validations for Node.js

The last couple of weeks have been a blast. I've been settling into my new job at Yammer, getting to know the guys on the team, and enjoying the insanely delicious food. Yes, we have a chef that comes in; it's pretty ridiculous. By happy accident,

What's next is Yammer

I've just come back from a meeting at the offices of my new employer, Yammer, Inc . I've accepted a position there as Senior Front-End Engineer, doing development work primarily in JavaScript and Ruby. I start next week, after enjoying a little family time this week --

REST easy with Geddy for Node.js

Geddy is a small Web-app development framework for Node.js. It uses a router syntax similar to Rails or Merb, and now has tools for quickly creating RESTful, resource-based routes as well. Building and installing Geddy Prerequisites: An up-to-date version of Node.js. I'm developing Geddy on Linux

Geddy: Web framework for Node.js

So I've posted previously about the embarrassment of riches that we have with Node.js modules, specifically Web frameworks. I count no less than 14 frameworks and micro-frameworks for building Web-apps with Node right now on the list of Node modules . I had actually hoped to use one

Node.js frameworks

Quite a growing list of Node.js modules and projects on GitHub. It's like a Cambrian explosion of JavaScripty goodness. If you're thinking of building a Webapp with Node, it's hard to know which of these embryonic frameworks to pick -- or if you

Reflections of a JS guy on AS3

I've been doing a bunch of stuff with AS3 at Slide, and as a long-time JavaScript guy, thought it might be interesting to record my impressions of the language so far. I'll do the bad news first, so I can end on a positive note. The

New gig at Slide, new digs in SF, new \... Python?

Okay, yeah, so I've left the blog pretty quiet the last couple of months -- it's been a busy time with lots of changes. After being without a full-time gig, doing a bunch of contract work, and looking around a lot, I accepted a job offer

Fleegix on Sinatra

The Sinatra Web dev framework has been around for a while, but I've recently been seeing it popping up a lot more. Simon Willison , the co-creator of the Django Python Web-dev framework, even mentioned it to me at SXSW Interactive when I buttonholed him after his panel on

Leaving Seesmic

I started at Seesmic a little over a year ago , and it's been great helping the platform grow from a full-page Flash app prototype to an Ajaxy Web app backed by a solid REST API. There is a time for every purpose under the sun , and now it&

Apple MobileMe using fleegix.date.Date for timezones

Sometime last year I found out that Apple was using the fleegix.date.Date plugin to build the timezone support in the MobileMe calendar, and recently had the opportunity to take a look and see what they did with it. The MobileMe calendar is quite pretty, as you might expect

Fleegix.js and Framework Scanner

A former colleague of mine, Teodor Moisa , pointed out to me recently that Fleegix.js is one of the libraries showing up in the scan performed by Framework Scanner . This is a very cool utility by Mats Bryntse that compares the impact on the global namespace by various JavaScript toolkits.

BOSH and iframe cross-domain pain

A big feature of the new Seesmic.com Webapp is our auto-update feature which provides near-real-time updates in the UI of videos as they're posted. Under the hood the auto-update uses simple long-polling of our XMPP service via BOSH, using Jack Moffitt's excellent Strophe.js library

WTF, global \"item\" symbol in IE

Like any self-respecting Web UI developer, I have a lovingly cultivated hatred of Internet Explorer. IE and I go way back -- I've been developing for IE since version 3, and I have a fairly well evolved sense of sense of what breaks there. So it's

Kerblooey accessing DOMException location property

This past week I ran afoul of an interesting bug in Firefox 3 trying to serialize some stuff with fleegix.json.serialize . Iterating over the properties of the DOMException (which for some inexplicable reason isn't an instance of a generic Error , but that's another rant) reveals

Fleegix.js 0.5.0 released

Okay, so the docs are all polished up, and tarballs/zips are freshly cooked, piping hot from the oven, so here it is, Fleegix.js 0.5.0 . Mmm, tasty JavaScript. The code name for this release is "Palace of ECMA Supremacy." Any questions or concerns regarding this

Fleegix.js, the tip of the JavaScript long tail

In a surprising recent development, Fleegix.js appears in the Six Revisions article, 10 Promising JavaScript Frameworks , showcasing "10 alternative and capable JavaScript frameworks/libraries to explore." Fleegix.js came in at number 10 on the list -- and frankly given its status (er, lack of status?) as

JSLint in Vim through Lynx

I recently saw a nice blog post by Mike Cantelon on integrating JSLint with Vim , and since I spend most of my days hacking JavaScript in Vim, it was a no-brainer for me to want that integrated-JSLint awesomeness, and right now, dammit. Of course I already had SpiderMonkey ( sudo apt-get

Windmill revolution!

It's a Windmill revolution! (Get it? You see, Windmills are these things that go around and around -- they revolve, you see, so, um .... Yeah, that's terrible, I'll stop.) Actually there really are some revolutionary changes going with Windmill , the Web-UI testing framework birthed

Painless publish/subscribe with YUI custom events

We're using YUI now at Seesmic. We were using my Fleegix.js library, but as more developers come on board I think it's better to use something mainstream. YUI also has a large array of well-tested UI elements (Overlay, TabView, etc.) that make rapid development easier.

Format-specific server errors for your Ajax app using Merb

Handling server-side errors in Ajaxy Web apps has always been annoying. There is a raft of articles on the subject , and I've seen it brought up in numerous conference talks, too. In lots of articles , the idea of 'handling' the error is limited to printing some

Kicking the tires on SproutCore, not keen on the object literals

Started kicking the tires this evening on SproutCore , Apple's "Cocoa-inspired" JavaScript framework for buildling Web applications. It looks pretty solid so far, although not nearly as far along as some of the older frameworks like Dojo, YUI, or even JQuery. The docs look pretty good, and