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by rubymaverick 12y ago
I wrote up a script a couple of months ago using JS for Automation that will automatically rotate a Keynote file from portrait to landscape (for use in prototyping on Keynote for iOS that only supports landscape). It was my first experience
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
Thanks for the examples, and I agree that error messages are super-important for beginners. We have written a bunch of code trying to "massage" error messages to be more helpful. I'll be adding these to the list, thanks!
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
I repurposed the content in the course to produce a simple HTML version of the course here: http://rubymaverick.com/try-objectivec-book/ The content is up on my Github and any pull requests would be welcome! https://github.com/rubymaveri
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
Very true. We really leaned heavily on the new literals and ARC in this course.
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
Yup, I agree with you, but I wanted to introduce referencing a variable before introducing formatted strings and placeholders. We actually went back and forth on this a couple times.
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
We've gotten the course back up and responding to submissions in a reasonable amount of time (2.5~ seconds as compared to 30~ seconds earlier). Please form a single file line behind mietek ;)
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
That's a really cool project! Definitely going to look into it for some of our more complicated courses, but for this course compilation is usually under a half-second so it's not the compilation that's slow (it's the way we are tearing dow
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
Looks like work has started on using emscripten with Objective-C code: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/pull/1162/files Still, a long way to go.
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
I'm actually working on extracting all the content for just a plain HTML version so people who don't want to do all the challenges will have something to read (it's almost a books length of content)
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
I know I feel so bad for them. We are working on some temporary fixes (including caching which as we all know is really easy to do) and changing the way we isolate the code submissions so we can get more throughput. GNUStep might be an int
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
Good idea, and our minis thank you ;)
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
We're reusing the stuff we built for the Try iOS course we came out with late last year. I've looked into Emscripten for this and from what I saw it really wouldn't work with this course, although maybe I missed something?
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by rubymaverick 13y ago
Sorry for the slow response times on the challenge submissions everyone. We only have so many Mac Minis running these things . We are looking into ways to speed it up
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Code School 2012 Year in Review(codeschool.com)
6 points by rubymaverick 14y ago|0 comments
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by rubymaverick 14y ago
We (Code School) actually run all of our tests server side, even for courses like Mobile Web and Backbone.js. We do this because we don't want to deal with the headache of dealing with cross-browser issues. For Javascript or HTML/CSS relate
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Objective-C Primer (ft. Mr. Higgie)(speakerdeck.com)
1 points by rubymaverick 14y ago|0 comments
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by rubymaverick 14y ago
We've gotten a couple of questions about this so far, and I just added an FAQ item in the Kickstarter project about this. Here is the answer: Most of our courses do take a lot of time and money to build, and we've been able to fund those c
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by rubymaverick 14y ago
mnicole, this is some KILLER feedback. I really want to make our hint system better (I'm one of the programmers that work on CodeSchool). A couple of us have been talking about changing the hint system to not deduct points, except for the
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by rubymaverick 14y ago
My suspicion is that it just wasn't that good. This was given at a TEDx event, not an official TED conference, which means they have no control over the content and are pretty free to not post it. Only a few of the TEDx talks ever make it
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CodeSchool.com Free Weekend(codeschool.com)
8 points by rubymaverick 14y ago|0 comments
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Programmers Being Dicks(programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com)
1 points by rubymaverick 14y ago|0 comments
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by rubymaverick 15y ago
Congrats guys. Way to represent Orlando!
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by rubymaverick 15y ago
Check out the Ruby on Rails guide on the subject: http://ryanbigg.com/guides/asset_pipeline.html DHH also talked a lot about it in his keynote this year at RailsConf: http://www.rubyinside.com/dhh-keynote-streaming-live-from-ra...
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by rubymaverick 15y ago
We are using node.js to safely execute code for our jquery air and HTML5 & CSS3 course on codeschool.com
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by rubymaverick 15y ago
You do not need to use CoffeeScript in Rails 3.1, it is merely the default option. Just delete the "gem 'coffeescript'" line in your Gemfile and just use regular js.
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Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from in your browser(railsforzombies.com)
10 points by rubymaverick 16y ago|1 comments
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by rubymaverick 16y ago
Go and read "The Thinking Person's Guide to Sobriety". It's an eye opener.
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by rubymaverick 16y ago
This title is completely accurate. I happen to have some inside info on this, actually. Steve Jobs went on one of his epic rants after a person from Puerto Rico tried to order a free case. Everyone at Apple agrees with his basic sentimen
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Chrome extension to disable HN comments (and other sites)(chrome.google.com)
2 points by rubymaverick 16y ago|2 comments
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by rubymaverick 17y ago
Adobe could fix almost all of this by open sourcing the Flash Player. http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Projects

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