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jemptymethod

Joined 19 years ago

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Apr 26
- Full-stack/front-end web developer since 1999. - Strong with the command line, SQL and regular expressions. - Debugged Javascript parseInt/radix issue in 2000. - PHP experience on-and-off since 2001, Java since 2002. - Created one-file, 60-line "bare bones mvc" PHP framework in 2007, downloaded several thousand times before being migrated off code.google.com to [github, now as "JackRabbitMvc"](https://github.com/dexygen/jackrabbitmvc) - Created ["DeskML" platform](https://code.google.com/archive/p/deskml/) around 2010/2011, a rough equivalent of Adobe AIR (and now Node-Webkit) using a TCL-based platform and just 100 lines of glue code. - Speaker at technical user meetings - Writer of pre-publication technical reviews - Focused primarily on the front end since 2009 - Discovered way of emulating various frameworks' document/ready functionality by simply using setTimeout/0. - Five years' experience with ExtJS, and more recently some Backbone, Angular 1, and Angular 2 (and, of course, jQuery) - Working with Vue.js as of 2017
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Comment · 13 years ago
Do we really need either Angular's or htmlbars' (see slide 37) way of "decorating DOM elements with behavior" when it is so trivial with just ES5 and HTML? See this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dexygen/nU8VK/ Give me a couple/three strong JS devs and I guarantee you I could take these simple building blocks (as well as spans with data- attributes, and innerHTML, instead of templates), and I could build out a framework way faster than either Angular or Ember.js and would validate as HTML5 to boot. Doubt me? I pretty much did the same thing for PHP; see http://dexygen.com/ria/#!/docs/jackrabbitmvc
Comment · 15 years ago
The following approximation of Adobe AIR took gluing together and/or modifying about a half-dozen existing open source projects with just about 100 lines of code:

http://code.google.com/p/deskml/

Comment · 15 years ago
I've always said Ben Franklin was the father of open source, at least as pertains to hardware: "Of the numerous inventions Franklin created, he did not patent a single one"; see http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_inquiring_little.html
Comment · 15 years ago
Direct link (instead of link to groups.google.com): http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/tcltk
Comment · 15 years ago
All project ideas are here: http://wiki.tcl.tk/26127

My project idea, an epub reader supporting Javascript widgets is here: http://wiki.tcl.tk/28062

Comment · 15 years ago
It's a shameless plug for my own project idea, see http://wiki.tcl.tk/28062

Last year I devised an open source alternative to Adobe AIR (http://code.google.com/p/deskml/) and intend to use that as the platform. I've already got some code written for the ereader, that mounts and unzips an epub using Tcl's virtual file system capabilities, and changes the embedded web server's document root to a file indicated inside the epub by the epub meta data. Etcetera.

Come join the project, if you're a student you can get paid by Google, and after the summer we should have a nice startup bootstrapped.

Comment · 16 years ago
Your in a city with a great startup culture. Staying in school in that city and thereby staying exposed to that great startup culture for 3+ years could very well be worth what debt you will accrue in the meantime, and if your smart enough to do well at neuro-science, you will probably get out of that debt in short order.

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