Disqus - Latest Comments for edspencer

Re: Installing Homebrew on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks

edspencer — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:37:29 -0000

This worked perfectly - thanks :)

Re: jQTouch Vs Sencha Touch vs jQuery Mobile

edspencer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:24:01 -0000

Sencha Touch comes with a completely free commercial license - you don't pay a penny for it. In fact the only way you can hand over any money for anything related to Sencha Touch is by purchasing Sencha Designer or a Support subscription. Hope you'll update your post to reflect that (particularly the sentence in bold claiming that ST costs money)

Also, I hope you have seen what we've been doing with Sencha Touch 2. Leaving all the new features and performance improvements to one side, I think the upgraded docs are about as comprehensive as any software product I've come across so hopefully we can win a better score from you there too :)

Re: sketching some merchandise

edspencer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:10:36 -0000

Yup - I work at Sencha :) I'd love to get one of the green ones, they look awesome

Re: sketching some merchandise

edspencer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:58:36 -0000

Where can I buy this?

Re: Theming an Ext.Window in 10 minutes

edspencer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:03:11 -0000

Great stuff Steffen :)

Re: DailyJS: Mac OS Screensaver in JavaScript

edspencer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:38:41 -0000

True enough Samori - I just added that in a rush to give the video a blank screen to start :)

Good point about gravity - that would be cool. Maybe this weekend...

Re: DailyJS: Why You Should Get Your JS from Google

edspencer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:41:22 -0000

For those wanting a CDN to serve Ext JS, Cachefly have been offering this for a while - see http://www.extjs.com/blog/2... for details

Re: DailyJS: JavaScript API Design and DSLs

edspencer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:07:26 -0000

The 'with' statement seems to get more flak than it deserves - it's an extremely useful way of providing a cleaner-feeling API via constructions like with(this) {...}.

People rightly point out that performance goes downhill this way, but in the majority of cases it doesn't really seem to matter. The chances are you're not writing a time-critical system where every millisecond counts, but you probably will appreciate prettier-looking code.

Re: DailyJS: Hello World From V8

edspencer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:21:26 -0000

Yeah I assumed that too, was just a heads up in case you hadn't seen it already.

Loving DailyJS.com, keep it up!

Re: DailyJS: Hello World From V8

edspencer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:16:58 -0000

I'd just installed V8 on Snow Leopard an hour or so before this was posted... bad timing guys!

I'll confirm though that using macports to install scons takes a long time - for me the number of dependencies it required made the fetching + compilation take around 20 minutes (sudo port install scons).

For comparison, building V8 itself using scons took around a minute on a midrange late-2009 MacBook Pro.

(@dailyjs: I posted this on the link from google reader but disqus seems to think it's a separate page - see http://dailyjs.com/2009/11/...

Re: DailyJS: Hello World From V8

edspencer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:07:53 -0000

I'd just installed V8 on Snow Leopard an hour or so before this was posted... bad timing guys!

For comparison, building V8 itself using scons took around a minute on a midrange late-2009 MacBook Pro.

Re: Francis Hwang: Health care values

edspencer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:16:17 -0000

From a Brit, and perhaps to add some balance to the strange perception many seem to have of our own health service:

1) Agree
2) Agree
3) Agree
4) Over here, this would be another Agree. This is a good thing. I can't speak for my American comrades though :)

NHS FTW

Re: Bamboo Blog - Squawk - Twitter Growl notifications

edspencer — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:04:28 -0000

Nice, but I had to add "require 'time'" at the top to get this to work, otherwise it complained that the Time.parse method isn't available.