amirf

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A semi-professional Homo sapiens, a technology enthusiast, a self learner, a vegan and a cat lover. Obsessed with learning new stuff, technology and coffee.

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Comment · 14 years ago

Great idea. This would be a good opportunity to experience and experiment in other technologies that don't get much spotlight. Will definitely try to get there this year!

Comment · 14 years ago

Wow... Kudos on a great job!

Comment · 14 years ago

Great job! All you need now is a better UI for mobiles and I'm sold :)

What web technology did you choose for this?

Comment · 14 years ago

Cute! You should add the sound of "Happiness & Zen coding" (someone coding Ruby) and the sound of "Despair" (someone coding PHP), etc. :)

Comment · 14 years ago

I think this proves quite the opposite. As a developer, you can decide if you want to change your users' default search engine (which will probably annoy them a lot), or do anything you want. It's a platform.

Comment · 14 years ago

Developers always faced the annoying decision of choosing a certain browser and losing a huge chunk of other browser-users, or maintaining several branches of code that is supposed to do the same thing. Well done & Congrats!

Comment · 14 years ago

I would recommend the ruby test plugin which is really great: https://github.com/maltize/sublime-text-2-ruby-tests

and Rails Nav: https://github.com/noklesta/SublimeRailsNav which gives you a pretty neat way navigating your app. Much like the common vi plugins.

Comment · 14 years ago

The music also made a big difference. Listening to Infected Mushroom while high on Modafinil and coding up a storm made me feel like I was some kind of insane coding machine that could complete pretty much any coding task in record time.

Hilarious :)

On a more serious note - this sounds a lot like taking Ritalin. I was just as productive if I was well rested, ...and working on something I cared about. - this isn't always an option. Sure, heavy use of anything isn't good. Lest we forget it's a drug after all, even regular use might be too much for some.

I really liked the article and the approach on things.

Thanks

Comment · 14 years ago

Brilliant! I remember my Computer Architecture course's Professor telling us about this article :)

Comment · 14 years ago

Well said. I would add that for perl instead of using homebrew one can use 'perlbrew': http://perlbrew.pl/ which is a lot like RVM.

Comment · 14 years ago

CGI isn't fun. I understand legacy code that runs on it, I don't think developing new web apps with it is the right thing to do, there are plenty of amazing frameworks which make perl web programming fast, powerful and fun again:

You have Catalyst (full on MVC framework, you can compare it to Rails), Dancer* (micro-web inspired by Ruby's Sinatra) and Mojolicious to name a few.

*Hint: Start here - http://perldancer.org/

Comment · 14 years ago

Looks awesome, always wondered if I could deploy perldancer web apps on Heroku!