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by jbox 10y ago
Heroku's Interagent is a set of practical guidelines for building APIs based on their Platform API: https://github.com/interagent/http-api-design
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by jbox 11y ago
If you're going across the network, a slow timeout is often trickier than an explicit failure. I wrote about handling this in Python: http://www.mobify.com/blog/http-requests-are-hard/
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by jbox 12y ago
No worries! It worked, we just got a lot of emails :) Could you aggregate the messages and post an update when the entire task is complete? Seeing the commits come seems to be a good progress indicator. If you are "watching" a rep
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by jbox 12y ago
Cool tool! I gave it a shot on one of our private repos this morning and it did what it said on the box. In the process it also generated ~150 comments on the repo. For folks watching the repo, this is a fair amount of email. Is there anywa
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by jbox 13y ago
"As a general rule, it's not possible to securely allow arbitrary user-provided content on a subdomain." This rule is also good to keep in mind when choosing a domain for non-production environments!
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by jbox 15y ago
Reminds me of the iPad app Prism: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/prism-the-image-browser/id488...
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by jbox 15y ago
Especially when parts are straight copies out of Zepto. Zepto Closest Implementation: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/blob/master/src/zepto.js#L... JQ.Mobi: https://github.com/appMobi/jQ.Mobi/blob/master/jq.mobi.js#L3... Zepto End Imp
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by jbox 15y ago
Mobify, Vancouver, Canada. Director of Engineering Mobify is a growing, profitable, bootstrapped startup. Our goal is to build a web where every website delivers and amazing experience on every device. We serve millions of pageviews for com
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by jbox 16y ago
It's been fun watching these features play out in libraries over the last year. I particularly like the idea of TemplateResponse - the earliest implementation I saw was in simonw's: https://github.com/simonw/django-openid/blob/master/djang
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by jbox 16y ago
Vancouver, BC, Canada - Mobify http://mobify.me/jobs/ We're building great mobile experiences using HTML5. Looking for smart people with a background in web development. We're based out of downtown Vancouver - right by the water, mountain
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by jbox 16y ago
JavaScript Developer (Wearer of Many Hats) - Vancouver, Canada http://mobifymedia.com/jobs/ Mobify is a mobile web company. We're changing the way people surf the mobile web. We work with traditional publishers like Wired and SPIN Magazin
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by jbox 16y ago
customizing auth.User to accept an email based login This app solves the problem by allowing users to log in using their email address. It's not a bug that it doesn't deal with account creation - it's outside the scope of the app. That sa
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by jbox 16y ago
Re. customizing auth.User to accept email based login - There isn't a completely DRY solution for this, but it's got much better - here is a tiny app that will do it for you: http://github.com/johnboxall/django-email-auth
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by jbox 16y ago
The URL of the CSS file and the contents are POST'ed as a key/val pair back to a endpoint you specify in the configuration. You'll need to setup a listener on your server to process the request and save the contents to file.
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Superstylin, a JS plugin to edit and save CSS in browser(johnboxall.github.com)
2 points by jbox 16y ago|2 comments
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by jbox 16y ago
Acquisition, investment or acceptance into an incubator are all great things but don't build your startup in such a way that success is dependant upon them. Ultimately, your success will depend on one thing - you. Build your business for pr
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by jbox 17y ago
Steve's final conclusion: “For most web sites, the possible performance gains from optimizing CSS selectors will be small, and are not worth the costs. ” http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/03/10/performance-impa...
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by jbox 17y ago
Happy that their status page stay up this time. Last time (236 days ago) this happened, it was not. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=685093
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by jbox 17y ago
None. Having worked on mobile web applications that serve a wide range of devices, I can honestly say that this is not the case. I would challange ppk to cite examples of this behaviour.
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by jbox 17y ago
I think you guys nailed the look and feel, nice work! A few months ago I was looking for a Django forum. Of the existing solutions, I liked Snapboard best for it's clean code, relative simplicity and test coverage. In the end I used it but
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Django Pattern: get_allowed_or_404(3oh2.com)
1 points by jbox 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbox 17y ago
Not to be cheeky but if you're familiar with programming and JavaScript I'd start with the jQuery source: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js Be patient and focus on understanding one part that your are familiar wi
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by jbox 17y ago
This is a very crowded space. The involved players market themselves towards carriers rather than the end user so it's unlikely simple searching will turn them up. For example airG ( http://corp.airg.com/ ) has deployed white label social n
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by jbox 17y ago
If you're interested in Django Design Patterns check out James Tauber and Brian Rosner's talk "Django Design Patterns": http://eldarion.com/talks/2009/05/eurodjangocon_djangopatter...
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by jbox 17y ago
I disagree. The GAE status page was down for hours: http://code.google.com/status/appengine What's the point of having a status page it's only up as long as your service? We shouldn't have to hunt around a Google Group for information abo
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by jbox 17y ago
"Metaclasses won't fly in this case, since the order of struct members has to be kept." Couldn't you use a creation counter in a metaclasses and assign order to the attributes as they are added? (like Django's forms use to keep track of fie
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by jbox 17y ago
There be dragons in the Python: http://code.google.com/p/dajaxproject/source/browse/trunk/da... If all that importing is really necessary then you might want to check out Django's new preferred import method, importlib, it might clean tha
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by jbox 17y ago
Good conference - Too heavy on scalability. Best slides from the bunch IMHO: James Tauber's Django Patterns - an in depth overview of common patterns found throughout a Django Project: http://eldarion.com/talks/2009/05/eurodjangocon_django
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by jbox 17y ago
Looks awesome! I think class implementations of Directories & Files would probably go a long way to helping cut down cruft in the view code: http://code.google.com/p/django-filebrowser/source/browse/tr...
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by jbox 17y ago
I've also seen some of the SocialPicks guys cruising around.

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