TrevorBurnham

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by TrevorBurnham 13y ago
Congratulations on launching! I applied to YC a few years ago with a similar concept. Your site looks gorgeous, and I'm excited to see it develop. I hope you succeed in disrupting a space that's been neglected for far too long.
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How HubSpot got hooked on Jasmine(dev.hubspot.com)
2 points by TrevorBurnham 14y ago|0 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
I believe the company talbina's thinking of is mine: We applied as Theoryville, got interviewed, got rejected, applied to Betaspring ( http://betaspring.com/ ), got accepted, changed our name to DataBraid, and proceeded to fall apart over t
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
They said it couldn't be done, but CoffeeScript bumped Objective-C down to #11. Of course, I think it's fair to say that there's more Obj-C code than CoffeeScript being written, but less of it is being open-sourced.
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
This is an excellent idea, and is the goal of a project that Google announced at JSConf 2011 with much fanfare (some of it from Brendan Eich himself), Traceur: http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/ However, Traceur has gained little
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
What's really nice about the compiler being in JavaScript is that you can run JavaScript anywhere: in the browser, on any OS, embedded in any major web framework. If the compiler were written in any other language, you'd have to worry about
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
That's a good idea. Michael, you should look into doing a run of CoffeeScript coffee mugs. These ones were much-loved and are no longer available: http://www.etsy.com/listing/93595042/coffeescript-mug
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
I'm pledging $1,000 to this. As the author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript ( http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript ), I have a stake in making CoffeeScript a more mainstream tool, and I believe that Michael's project will grea
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by TrevorBurnham 14y ago
Looks like the REPL is still affected, though: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1829#issue...
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author, ask me anything. This is my second book; the first was http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript . I ran a Kickstarter in February to try to attract advance buzz: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/869786663/async-ja
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Async JavaScript book released(leanpub.com)
11 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|4 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Not a very good deal, given Codeschool's $25/month unlimited access membership plan.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
More CoffeeScript consoles are always welcome, but this one isn't very intuitive. The minimalism goes too far; you have to mouse over the logo just to see the instructions. Also, isn't CTRL+X spoken for (as "cut") on non-Mac systems?
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Web Worker Sandbox(webworkersandbox.com)
1 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|0 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
SEEKING WORK – Boston or Remote Buzzwords: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, jQuery, Backbone.js, Node.js. Author of the PragProg book on CoffeeScript and a forthcoming book on Async JavaScript. Interested in solving JavaScript problems and archite
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Intermediate. It would work well as the second book you read on JavaScript (or, given the way most devs come to JavaScript, the book you read after reading a book on jQuery). But there's stuff in there that even experienced devs might not k
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
May I mention that I have an entire book on this subject coming out in March? http://leanpub.com/asyncjs/
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author, ask me anything. A sample chapter on Promises, focusing on their implementation in jQuery (1.5+), is available now: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/869786663/async-javascri...
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Async JavaScript book(kickstarter.com)
5 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|1 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Apple provides very little documentation when it comes to embedding HTML in an iBook, so I hit a lot of walls when trying to get the examples running for CoffeeScript: An Interactive Reference ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/coffeescript/
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IBooks embedded HTML boilerplate(github.com)
2 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|1 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Thanks! I'm planning to add syntax highlighting in the next update.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'm the author of both this and the PragProg book ( http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript ). I wanted to offer a more succinct guide to the language that would quickly address common points of confusion. My hope is that CoffeeScrip
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CoffeeScript: An Interactive Reference released for iPad(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|3 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Boston/Cambridge, MA or Remote Looking to solve interesting JavaScript (or CoffeeScript) problems. * I wrote the CoffeeScript book for PragProg. * I'm avid about Node.js and jQuery. I've also been getting into iBooks Author l
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Ryan Dahl (creator of Node) tweeted that "this looks pretty awesome": http://twitter.com/ryah/status/148659426897825792 It looks very Rails-y with many sensible defaults (e.g. automatic CSRF for forms), but is quite a bit more lightweight
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Boston/Remote Web dev. Wrote the PragProg book on CoffeeScript. Proficient in jQuery and Node.js. I also enjoy random networking, so if you're in the Harvard/MIT vicinity and you want to talk tech, let's grab coffee. One pers
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Page design feedback: You should make the "Free Trial" link more prominent (make it a button with a bright background). Bump up the line-height on all the text; it looks too crowded. Features list needs to give more specifics about RAM, dis
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
It's a false choice that's been presented many times: Learn CoffeeScript, or learn to do JavaScript right . When I wrote the PragProg book on CoffeeScript ( http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript ), my aim from the start was to fil
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
There is a Justin.tv iPhone app that would allow you to watch it, but it's $4.99: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/justin.tv/id358612216

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