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by bchen 9y ago
I have been working on an internal, form-heavy, app for a bank client for the past 6 months as my day job. I wouldn’t say I love Angular 2/4/5, but it does get the job done. Since Angular has a rather steep learning curve, having
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by bchen 10y ago
To make a child element the same height as the parent, you can set the parent container to position: relative, and in the child element, set it to position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0. The downside of this trick is that the child element i
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by bchen 11y ago
They should implement one-way streets, where you have to obey the direction but ghosts don’t, to make Pacman even more interesting.
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by bchen 12y ago
I am hoping JetBrains folks will port their suite of .Net tools to other platforms. Since the core of these tools is already cross platform (JVM-based), it may happen faster than Microsoft does to Visual Studio.
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by bchen 12y ago
I’ve been doing the same—building a fairly large content-based website with around 100 pages for a telecom using Middleman. The site will be live soon, and I hope to be able to share more info about it when that happens. So far, what I can
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by bchen 13y ago
Great list. I agree with most of these conventions, except the following: > List "Regular" Styles Next > List @include(s) Next Depends on what the @include gives you, I would either treat @include the same as @extend and put @includ
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by bchen 13y ago
This would be cooler if there is a way to actually _play_ the accordion. For example, map keyboard keys to the keys on the accordion. :-)
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by bchen 14y ago
I assume you mean having the book physically shipped to Sri Lanka is not feasible/possible. Consider buying the ebook from Manning directly [0]. They do offer the ebook in Kindle (mobi) format. [0]: http://manning.com/resig/
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by bchen 14y ago
I agree that it bothers me to see Gitlab UI looking too similar to GitHub. I’m hoping that GitHub would not pursue any action against it. I also agree that Gitlab can’t compete against GitHub in the areas you’ve listed. For my company, howe
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by bchen 14y ago
Just installed Gitlab successfully on RHEL6. Some modifications to the installation steps: - I used RVM to install Ruby 1.9.3. This should be fairly straightforward. - adduser command has a different interface on RHEL, but it shouldn’t be h
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by bchen 14y ago
This is damn awesome. I was waiting exactly for this. Now I just hope that JRebel offers a similar deal.
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by bchen 14y ago
I don’t have experience with Rackspace, but, like the other commenter acangiano said, I only have good things to say about SoftLayer’s support for the past 4 years. Their customer service reps are quite responsive and can be reached either
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by bchen 14y ago
It is popular among developers because: - you can source control your blog content - update your blog without ever leaving command line terminal or having to use less productive web interface - use markdown, textile, html or whatever suits
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by bchen 14y ago
Since long parameter list is considered a code smell, people should be discouraged from writing this kind of code anyways. Namely, this example from the article is in fact a bad practice: > o.doSomething1("Alfred E. Neumann", " http://b
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by bchen 14y ago
This is slightly off topic, but make sure you are on the latest version of Parallels before doing the upgrade. For some reason, Parallels 6, which is less than 2 years old, does not support Mountain Lion. Personally, I do not care about the
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by bchen 15y ago
To use SD cards, use Camera Connection kit. To play common video formats, use apps, such as AVPlayerHD. To use your iPad as a removable drive, use iExplorer (no jailbreaking required). If you don't want to use iTunes, you can completely avo
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by bchen 15y ago
Content is still viewable -- just disable JavaScript.