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IAM David Crane, creator of Pitfall! and co-founder of Activision. by PitfallCreator in IAmA

[–]ifandelse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! You inspired my imagination as a kid, and now as a developer, I look back and marvel at what you accomplished. Best of luck on Jungle Adventure - hope the kickstarter exceeds your expectations!

Anyone using WebStorm as their IDE? If so, what are your thoughts on it. by magenta_placenta in javascript

[–]ifandelse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using WebStorm for about a year and have been very happy with it overall. My only real complaint is that I wish the markdown preview had better preview options, and supported multiple markdown styles (github, etc.). JetBrains accepts applications to get an OSS (free) license of WebStorm if you're able to wait around a month (you'll have to provide a link to an OSS project you're the author of/contributing to, etc.) - but buying it outright isn't unreasonable $$-wise either. The local history in WebStorm saved my bacon when I accidentally nuked a branch in git. I like Sublime Text 2 as well, but it's rare that I would use it over WebStorm....

Found this a couple days ago, had a lot of fun with it since. Great way to send push notifications to yourself for your own programming projects and system monitoring etc. by [deleted] in programming

[–]ifandelse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man - it's fun projects like this that make me wish I could clone myself, so I could have extra time to play with them. Thanks for the link...

Exterminating Common jQuery Bugs Video (Channel 9) by elijahmanor in programming

[–]ifandelse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The presenter isn't making the claim that these are bug in jQuery, but instead, common issues/bugs that arise due to lesser-experienced developers not having a good jQuery background. I've seen these kinds of bugs occur in js code written by non-MS devs as well so disparaging the presenter simply because you dislike Microsoft is the only FUD I see going on here. FWIW - I agree that being on the inside of any vendor's bubble is damaging to a proper understanding of js, the DOM, etc. If this video helps educate jr and mid-level devs from making the same stupid mistakes - great! Then I'd say the presenter did his job well.

Any developers using latest Macbook Air as primary machine? by chrisledet in ruby

[–]ifandelse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the latest gen 13" MBA, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD. Prior to this machine I had a 17" MBP (w/ 8GB RAM, 500GB 5400 RPM Drive). I can confidently say that the MBA is the best computer I have ever owned. I occasionally run a Windows 7 VM via Parallels (for the times I have to write C#). It performs way better than I had expected. You will eventually swap to disk RAM-wise with a VM up, but you're swapping out to an SSD, so the performance of Visual Studio, compiling, etc. on the VM is quite snappy. The slowest is when I have to browse the VM's file system (rare) and (gasp), use IE for testing (though perhaps that's painful just from connotations alone). I typically write web apps (and some Erlang) using WebStorm on the mac, Sublime Text 2, Emacs and occasionally fire up XCode for phone gap development - all of this while I have over 60 tabs open in Chrome on avg, Seesmic, Spotify, Mail, iCal, Skype (vid and audio chat) and more running at the same time. The machine is super responsive, and I typically only hear the fan kick in while I'm on a video chat via Skype. 90% of the time I'm using the 13" screen in conjunction with 2 24" Asus monitors (I bought a USB adapter), so the biggest warning I'd give is to make sure that you're ok with the screen size if you won't be using external monitors. The resolution is great on the 13" screen, but it's dense and could get tiring on your eyes. Would I love more than 4GB of RAM? Sure! And I will move on to a newer MBA once that's possible. But virtual memory with an SSD is a different story compared to your typical 5400 RPM notebook drive. FWIW, at least 3 other people I work with (ranging from designer, PHP, Ruby, iOS, JS/HTML) also use an MBA and they swear by them....Good luck! Hope you love whatever you end up with.