Aral Balkan that is where I am at the mo. working on a mainly client side #JS app, having never done so before. Scary and fun!
Turns out seeing how many lines of HTML were saved by running The Guardian’s source through Coda’s HTML Tidy was a mistake. Coda now frozen. >3.3k lines!
Does anyone I know do web stuff for newspapers? I’d be really interested in knowing why there’s so much weird code formatting and vertical space in the source.
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“Do those guys never stop wittering on?” John Walters on @boagworld podcast
lots of great discussion about #ownyourcontent #indieweb on this Big Web Show: http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/74 with /cc @chriscoyier @zeldman
Working through http://emberjs.com/guides/router_primer/ to understand ember.js. I’m beginning to get semantic satiation on the word “shoe” :{
http://docs.emmet.io/ looks nice #web #dev #bookmark
@stiansigvartsen YAAAAAAAY! :)
To anyone else starting out with ember.js, http://emberjs.com/guides/router_primer/ is the best incremental explanation of the application structure I’ve found.
Slowly getting my head round ember.js. Javascript really isn’t very nice.
Today's rockpapercynic is the best reaction I’ve seen so far to the Penguin/House thing: http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2012-10-29
Next #indieweb project/product: http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/p/pu
@IE no, sorry :( I am building something cool and useful. I was when the iPad mini was released and I am now as well.
try/catch are the most undervalued control flow statements. I think it’s the negative connotation of exception.
I find it disturbing that the 6th google result for “content negotiation” is an article from 2003 about how it shouldn’t be used. This needs to be changed.
@sophiedennis marvellous, thanks a lot :) yep, logs will tell all. See you on Thursday’s #exeterweb!