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Re: How Good C# Habits can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits: Part 3 – Function Scope, Hoisting, & Closures | Enterprise jQuery

Calvin Freitas — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:47:49 -0000

Another tool worth looking at is Google Closure Linter: http://code.google.com/p/cl...

Similar to JSLint, it's goal is to encourage good JavaScript coding practices -- specifically, it uses the guidelines set by the Google JavaScript Style Guide.

Re: DailyJS: Let's Make a Framework: Testing

Calvin Freitas — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:09:15 -0000

MooTools is using Jasmine (http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/) to do "Behaviour Driven Development" (BDD).

For JavaScript TDD, another tool to check out is JsTestDriver (http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/). It runs JavaScript unit tests and works with their built-in assertion framework or you can use adapters to work with QUnit, Jasmine, YUI Test, and others.

JsTestDriver can be integrated into build systems such as Ant and Maven which is helpful for larger projects or in an enterprise environment. The back-end pieces are Java based which makes it fairly portable between platforms. There's an Eclipse plugin which is useful for developers using that IDE.

Re: Untitled Startup | Cardboard Cutouts

Calvin Freitas — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:33:26 -0000

Cool idea, similar to what Tweetsum did w/ its DBI. Usually I can get an idea of this in about five seconds by glancing over a user's follower list.

Re: http://www.untitledstartup.com/backstage/desk/question/logo-for-deal-whale

Calvin Freitas — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:03:47 -0000

I like the whale in #1, the colors in #8, and the font weight in #8 is nice but the caps are a bit loud.

I don't like the coupon outlines or the gradients used in many of the designs -- a bit too complex especially for a logo you'll be using numerous places on the site and potentially in multiple types of media (it needs to look good in print and not just on the web).

Re: Hacker News Just Banned Google And Every Other Search Engine [Updated]

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:28:41 -0000

Their official Twitter account is @ycombinator; the post to @newsycombinator was regarding a much discussed thread at the Hacker News site asking why the robots.txt file had been changed. The headline was by no means an announcement.

Paul Graham responded in a comment three hours ago: "Don't worry, it doesn't mean anything... We only finished reading applications an hour before I had to leave for SXSW, so I forgot to set robots.txt back to the normal one, but I just did now."

And if you look at the robots.txt, it is now back to normal.

Re: Untitled Startup | Tweet 'n Save

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:25:36 -0000

Cool idea. I wouldn't personally use it as a business, but I can imagine following local users of this product to keep track of local deals.

Re: Founder's Co-op leads $250K investment in Untitled Startup

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:23:32 -0000

Awesome job, Aviel & Damon! It's been a lot of fun to follow the progress you've made with getting the company and the site up and going.

Re: Time to Say Goodbye Seattle, Hello San Francisco

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:24:29 -0000

Danielle, thanks for the excellent post. It's been great seeing you and Kevin at many of the startup events locally. I'm sad to see you depart for San Francisco, but Twilio is a great opportunity and I know you will do well there.

Re: Twilio Raises $3.7 Million For Powerful Telephony API

Calvin Freitas — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:49:28 -0000

From a developer's perspective, Twilio has an awesome API -- well documented and easy to use. I've been impressed since the first time I used it to setup a basic phone application.

It doesn't surprise me at all that they received this funding with the leadership and focus they have.

Re: FuseTop

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:07:31 -0000

I don't have it posted anywhere right now. It isn't currently open source, but it's something I've considered. Send me an email or use my contact form and we can talk more about it.

Re: Seattle gets its first 'WordCamp'

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:07:23 -0000

Thanks, Todd!

I'm excited for the event and it's been great to see the strong interest from the local community in WordPress. We were glad we could give access to the event for another 50 people.

Re: TechFlash Status Update

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:21:37 -0000

It's great to see Disqus setup and working on the site. I am interesting in seeing how it changes the conversation moving forward.

Re: Guest Post: We're better than this

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:48:00 -0000

Fantastic article -- I'm glad somebody is pointing this out and I hope TechFlash readers take it to heart.

I love the Seattle tech community. Meeting and getting to know people involved in the local tech community has been an incredible joy since first moving here three years ago.

Re: Giraffe Labs closes co-working space, plans going away party

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:45:00 -0000

Giraffe Labs will be missed. I had many good times in the space, especially on Saturdays when they hosted SaturdayHouse.

Re: Startup Weekend: One minute to sell Seattle on your best idea

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:23:00 -0000

It's been a great event so far and I'm impressed with the number of ideas people brought forward. I'm looking forward to the next two days and seeing the progress people make towards turning the ideas into applications, websites, and/or companies.

Kudos to the organizers for putting it on and bringing together a diverse group of people.

Re: Disqus plugin with WordPress MU?

Calvin Freitas — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:43:22 -0000

I would love to see an official Disqus plugin for Wordpress MU as well. I'm setting up a new multi-blog site and it would be wonderful to integrate Disqus for easier comment management.

Re: My First Python Script!

Calvin Freitas — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:31:02 -0000

Sounds like a perfect recipe for a single-serving site (http://kottke.org/08/02/sin....

Re: Northwest Entrepreneur Network Blog Redesign

Calvin Freitas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:36:24 -0000

Glad to hear it works okay in Ubuntu! In fact, I use Ubuntu quite a bit when doing web development and design work.

Re: Challenge Poverty (with Save the Children)

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:46:57 -0000

Shawn -- I'm impressed with the efforts you're making to help improve peoples' lives. Keep up the good work.

Re: louisgray.com: TweetStats Shows Impact of Instability on Top Tweeters' Activity

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:48:35 -0000

Another part of the problem is changes to the Twitter interface that prevent users from going back more than 10 pages in their history. TweetStats relies on this ability to grab information about older tweets since the last time it calculated your graph. With the new limits, TweetStats data is not currently reliable as there's no functioning Twitter-approved API method to go back further than 200 tweets in a user's history.

@dacort tweeted about it here: http://twitter.com/TweetSta...

The conversation between @dacort and @al3x is available in a conversation in the Twitter Development Talk Google Group: http://groups.google.com/gr...

Re: Speaking Tomorrow at the Six Hour Startup Conference

Calvin Freitas — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:59:05 -0000

Tony, I enjoyed hearing you speak at the conference on Saturday. It was great to hear from somebody with first-hand experience starting and running a company. I was impressed with your passion for the business.

Re: Google's New Blue Fav Icon :: Google Updated Their Favorite Browser Icon

Calvin Freitas — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:47:25 -0000

It didn't load for me initially. I had to go to http://www.google.com/favic... and do a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5 on Firefox/Windows). Clearing the cache would probably work as well.

Re: Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:41:23 -0000

Michael, you should've cited @dacort and TweetStats for the image you used of your timeline. http://tweetstats.com/graph...

Re: Log into Disqus with OpenID using Clickpass

Calvin Freitas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:37:30 -0000

Interesting system, I plan to check this out in more detail.

Re: What Are You Waiting For?

Calvin Freitas — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:27:57 -0000

I've been using Remember The Milk (http://rememberthemilk.com/) to write down some of my goals, adding new things to the list as they come up, and now I'm making progress one step at a time. It's rewarding when you take the first few steps and start moving forward even if you don't have a perfect idea what you're reaching toward.