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Re: Web apps + AJAX = distribution problem?

anotherjesse — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:12:00 -0000

Alex,

Well, this requires an extra step.

What I did was create a script that modifies my layout file (the one file that links to the css/javascript) and the actual javascript/stylesheets. Then I run this script only on the production checkout (and do not check these changes in)

I do not recommend modifying the file names in your revision control system.

Re: Web apps + AJAX = distribution problem?

anotherjesse — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:28:00 -0000

yeah, we could change it so the headers on the javascript/css say not to cache them. And this wouldn't bad for a site that was completely ajax (but make sure you don't break the back button and try to make URLs be identifiers. . .) Downloading all the javascript each time would suck for both you and the end user if the user changes their document.location with regular frequency.

Another solution that may or may not be easier - create a directory that is just a new sym-link to the real location for css/javascript with each new version, then prepend the location for the resources with that version #.

In my mind I do want caching whenever possible. The only time caching becomes an issue is those few times you actually update the files.

Re: ajax from file:/// urls?

anotherjesse — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:53:00 -0000

Carey,

Thanks for both notes. Fixed the missing # in the css. And for some reason your javascript works for me ... My test code was very similiar but I'll have to check more when I get a little more sleep.

Re: Comments about the garden

anotherjesse — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:38:00 -0000

Sure thing, I'm working with Britt on making it more generic (using a yaml config file) at the moment. I'll post again with a link to the code after it has be de-hardcoded to my domain/paths.

Re: Validating HTML in Ruby with libxml

anotherjesse — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:10:00 -0000

Christoffer,

Thanks for the correction.

Some of the errors are really useful (and point to exactly where the problem is), although errors such as unmatched tags tend to be obfuscated.

Re: New version of deSEDG

anotherjesse — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:09:00 -0000

I was upgrading the server and had a configuration issue. It is fixed now!

Sorry about that

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

anotherjesse — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:52:28 -0000

we hit the same issue as Dan - investigating we figured out it was ruby's marshaling of the string included a few extra bytes at the begining.

By doing set(key, text, 60, true) # you get it cached for 60 seconds in raw format

Re: Taboo Screencast

anotherjesse — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:21:00 -0000

Raul, adding ordering is definitely in the future, the question will be when. I am currently prioritizing syncing over having folders/categories/tags.

With the next release you will be able to add notes and change the title, so you can do a tagging of sorts.

Re: powered by web.py + appengine

anotherjesse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:56:00 -0000

The first three comments left were not recorded properly. I'm not sure why, but I've added some debug code to try to trace the issue down (and not lose data).

Re: powered by web.py + appengine

anotherjesse — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:43:00 -0000

I built it to be my system not a general out-of-the-box system, but I'll publish it on github this weekend.

Re: New version of deSEDG

anotherjesse — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:42:00 -0000

Martin,

deSEDG will convert the files into standard DivX files which can be played on any operating system

Re: Web.py + App Engine Skeleton

anotherjesse — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:00 -0000

Google made a change to their code, I've fixed it by modifying my copy of web.py. I've updated the github project.

Re: Taboo Extend Firefox 3 Entry

anotherjesse — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:53:00 -0000

Right click on the toolbar and choose "customize toolbar". Then you can re-drag the icons onto the toolbar.

Re: Say hello to Searchy

anotherjesse — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:43:00 -0000

@LouCyper, This is only version 0.1 - I plan to make it even better :)

Ideas include: select multiple results and open then all in different tabs, a hot key to go to previous/next result while you are looking one of the pages (from the results), richer @ search on sites with APIs, ...

I'm not sure exactly what all the features will be but I really do believe search should be a richer and deeper experience from your browser without having to visit another site.

Re: AideRSS Google Reader Integration

anotherjesse — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:12:14 -0000

I love AideRSS!

Re: louisgray.com: Is Requiring a Firefox Plug-in Akin to Designing for IE Only?

anotherjesse — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:37:16 -0000

As a clikball developer, I agree that being "Firefox only" isn't good for the web, nor is it good for our project if long term. Users should be able to use your service on as many platforms as possible.

But, when creating a new service you have to balance the cost of supporting all those platforms from day one. Clikball was just released as "private alpha" a few days ago, and supporting multiple platforms would have meant delays. We are rapidly evolving the user interface, data models and functionality, and having a larger code base for all those vastly different platforms would slow that down.

We are planning to support other browser through web-based interfaces supporting all current A-list browsers.

IE extension development sucks (Microsoft themselves basically said that at the recent add-on-con, recommending 3 books, 2 of which are out of print, saying you should do this because your competition won't). Safari doesn't officially support extension (most ways people find to extend it get closed by later releases). Chrome is planning to support extensions, but it will be mid-year at the earliest.

We are also planning robust APIs to all our interactions in any custom applications.

Re: Jesse 3.0

anotherjesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:08:06 -0000

I was wondering if video blogging counts.

Re: powered by web.py + appengine

anotherjesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:15:09 -0000

I couldn't find one. At least I wrote a few unit tests for it :)

I have since switched to Disqus

Re: Say hello to Searchy

anotherjesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:18:09 -0000

I'll working on improving the color scheme before the next release

Re: Say hello to Searchy

anotherjesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:18:13 -0000

I love ubiquity, and with searchy I'm trying to try to do something similar but different. I'll try to get a new release out soon with more features.

To open in a new tab/window hold down your ctrl/shift/alt keys (just like you do for regular links) when you click or hit return. Ctrl-enter/click will open in new tab, shift-enter/click in a new window.

Re: Jesse 3.0

anotherjesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:24:46 -0000

hehe - I use it as a secret weapon. I implement the beginning of a feature and release it, then see what users build on top of it. Then I talk to those people and get permissions to integrate their code on the site (rewritten as rails/css/js instead of a greasemonkey script)

Re: Jesse 3.0

anotherjesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:48:12 -0000

The blood pact I'm in requires a blog post every day this month (I started late). The blog posts might be unrelated to project progress though.

I'll definitely tweet - and I setup automated deploys for userscripts.org - if I push to github, it does a post-receive to pushr, which then uses capistrano to deploy, and tweets the status to http://twitter.com/userscripts -- somehow that seems overly complex but it was simple to setup :-)

Re: comments kinda not associated with correct threads

anotherjesse — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:09:43 -0000

delete this thread - stupid bug by me...

Re: Shipping with Rails

anotherjesse — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:03:12 -0000

He was being dramatic because I had projects that were over a year old, useful (but only in use by a few people) but still not shipping.

I've learned a lot about programming/design unshiped experiments, but I've learned more about building stuff people want by shipping. One important lesson was given the choice between good UI with broken logic and great logic with "programmer art", crappy logic almost always wins. So for me shipping means I have to pay attention to making projects look as good on the outside as inside.

Unfortunately I'm still learning given reviews like "It's so ugly... style it up a bit and I'd use it." for Taboo on addons.mozilla.org

Re: Search Y Combinator - Feedback

anotherjesse — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:53:29 -0000

Sorry I'm couldn't find it if you already answered but is there a JSON interface?