triathlete

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by triathlete 14y ago
The problem with html5 apps right now is theres no good platform for developing them. Jquery mobile has issues. Sencha touch has issues. Ive looked at touch before but am concerned abut bugginess and i really dont want to learn c#. The m
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by triathlete 14y ago
Parsing json is a pain in android. You have to do so may things to do what should be a simple straightforward thing. One article mentioned that library but i never looked at it.
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by triathlete 14y ago
I was trying to learn android recently and had to take a break due to increasing headaches. Theres so many issues. Some of which they mentioned in this article. One of which is that supposedly alot or some of the performance issues are f
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by triathlete 14y ago
Likewise agree. Too much freaking noise. Annoying interface and horrible ads. Im in the process of moving over to twitter.
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by triathlete 14y ago
Actually i just learned node a few months ago. If you want to ping me personally i can go through it with you step by step since theres a couple of things you have to figure out and its a bit difficult to remember them through a simple com
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by triathlete 14y ago
To say this is a port of Node is to misunderstand 99% of what node is. In fact i dont really understand why you even relate this to node at all and why you use the node logo. Call it evented php or or a port of Tornado or something but it
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by triathlete 14y ago
Its unfortunate that right now none of the 3 major document stores seem to be doing all that well or are easy to use straight out of the box. I use and like mongodb but only for prototyping. I havent decided what to go with longer term if
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by triathlete 14y ago
For anybody wanting to learn about node the NodeUP podcast is excellent.
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by triathlete 14y ago
Personally id say Node and Rails simply shouldnt be compared in any way. They are just too different technologies. So node shouldnt even be concerned about trying to be rails at all. People are going to use whatever they want to regardle
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by triathlete 14y ago
Mongodb is a json document store. I use it myself. It works very well with "node" because node of course uses javascript as its language.
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by triathlete 14y ago
Of course Rails took YEARS getting to the point of scalability. People are acting like it was scalable on the very first alpha release.
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by triathlete 14y ago
Plus if they already knew rails. I use node mostly now and wonder why people would use anything else. However if i had alot of expertise in rails i would probably use it for most everything as well until i was comfortable enough with node
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by triathlete 14y ago
Im sorry but you make it sound like everybody that does rails is a perfect programmer. Rails itself has changed over the years and if you look at an app from years ago im quite sure it will be very different then a current rails app. So a
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by triathlete 14y ago
Yes of course via express.js and railway and several other frameworks. Again node itself is just a set of libraries on top of of v8. So its not a proper comparison. Personally i use express.js and roll my own framework essentially because
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by triathlete 14y ago
The problem is that Rails has been around since what 2005. Node has been around for a much shorter period and has only stabilized over the past year. So they just arent comparible in that sense. Plus node works differently then Rails and
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by triathlete 14y ago
I use node for everything now myself for a number of reasons. The "problem" with node is that its still very young. And its a different programming model then people are used to. So its similiar to the whole RDBMS/document store argument
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by triathlete 14y ago
Completely agree. I tried to learn rails and gave up partly for this reason. I have been using node for a while now and LOVE it! I really dont understand why people bash node.
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by triathlete 14y ago
Mongodb and Cassandra are two completely different technologies with completely different use cases. Mongodb is more of a general database although its apparently used more and more for analytics whereas cassandra is more for parts of appl