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milos_cohagen | 10 years ago | on: Five Years of Google Closure

Would love to see Google Closure compiler features combined with Webpack features. I want to easily:

- write ES2015 - compile with dead code elimination, static type checking etc, but super fast like webpack - include npm modules easily - include assets using something as simple as webpack's loader

milos_cohagen | 11 years ago | on: We are under attack

DDoS come from hosts which are part of botnets, usually compromised hosts, from all over the world. Not one country or subnet.

milos_cohagen | 11 years ago | on: JavaScript for OS X Automation

This is an ok idea, but go look at the API for iPhoto, Contacts or iTunes and you'll realize it is irrelevant what scripting language is used. Really sucks that Apple doesn't open up their apps to scripting better.

milos_cohagen | 11 years ago | on: JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS X Yosemite

This is cool because as a programmer I found AppleScript difficult to pick-up quickly. However, after a recent foray into writing scripts for iPhoto and iTunes, the api's and documentation of those apps totally turned me off.

I'll be interested once I see some succinct JS to show me most played songs in last week, or recent photos imported from iCloud.

milos_cohagen | 12 years ago | on: Server-generated JavaScript responses

I enjoy dhh articles, but find them a bit hard to understand not being a rubyist. dhh says:

2. Server creates or updates a model object. 3. Server generates a JavaScript response that includes the updated HTML template for the model.

Why does a template need to be updated? Isn't that part of the idea of templates, that they are fixed for changes in the model?

milos_cohagen | 12 years ago | on: Slackware 14.1 is released

Great memories of Slackware, my first Linux. Slackware CD plus the HOWTO's and I was off. Doubt I'd have become a programmer without that fateful day, circa '94, that my friend freaked me out by showing me a Unix on his home PC and loaning me his Slack cd.

milos_cohagen | 12 years ago | on: Using Voice to Code Faster than Keyboard

As someone with a disability (quadriplegic), who types/codes with one finger, I find it appalling that Nuance, Apple and Google haven't opened up their speech recognition systems through a rudimentary API that would allow innovation that would _directly_ help the lives of me and many other disabled people whether it's RSI or worse.

milos_cohagen | 12 years ago | on: Clojure core.async Channels

I spent a decent amount of time looking at Lamina, and while I liked the concept, the implementation was, imho, a very complex set of macros and dynamically built Java types and interfaces. It did not feel like the "clojure way" and just following the code of a single message send was painful.

Will core.async be similar in it's implementation complexity?

milos_cohagen | 13 years ago | on: Security with Spring

Spring can be configured with zero XML. And it's numerous components can be used a-la-carte. Far and away it's the IOC and TX mgmt at the core. The frameworks source is pretty straight forward and it has excellent docs.

If you are looking at "big" frameworks in other language eco-systems, I can't help but think Spring should be considered quality stuff.

You have to keep in mind Spring is a Java framework, and therefore should reflect the stable, conservative nature of the language itself.

Spring stack traces can get long'ish, but they are very easy to understand. Take a look at a Clojure stack trace and you'll realize how simple Spring's are.

milos_cohagen | 13 years ago | on: Why New Relic Is Raising $80 Million Now

i agree.. they sent me so many follow up emails i had to unsubscribe. i can't understand how a supposedly modern software service would not understand what is appropriate email frequency.

turned me off totally.

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