murz
Joined 15 years ago
Karma
319
Submissions
107
Member since
Feb 9
Recent submissions
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
> are there any good form validation libraries for Go?
Here are a couple:
http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/schema
http://godoc.org/github.com/mccoyst/validate
There are also some bigger web framework projects that include validation, Revel is one: http://revel.github.io/manual/validation.html
Comment · 12 years ago
One of my first mentors was a blind programmer. He's actually one of the smartest and most productive programmers I know.
The main tool he used was some screen-reading software called JAWS, which apparently is pretty sophisticated these days. You can see some of the other tools available here: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/blindness-produ...
Comment · 12 years ago
> Also, for those who are using Java, where do you host your application/service?
Heroku, EC2 (or Elastic Beanstalk) and Google AppEngine are all pretty good choices if you ask me. For side projects I usually just throw them up on Heroku, but I'll use EC2 for more sophisticated deployments.
> Django/RoR or Flask/Sinatra have their niches - what are good reasons for a solo developer or small team to look outside Python, Ruby or PHP?
I'm struggling to come up with an answer to this topic. To be honest, I think you'll be fine with whatever tool you choose and I think you should just use whatever is most comfortable for you. That said, some scenarios where it might make sense to use Java (or another JVM language) over Django/RoR include:
(1) This doesn't matter for most applications (and isn't necessarily true for all applications), but if you are expecting a lot of load you will likely get more throughput out of the JVM (see how the Java platforms compare to Ruby and Python ones in this benchmark: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) and you will probably be able to handle more traffic with fewer machines (Twitter reportedly needs about ten times fewer machines to run its site after rewriting a bunch of Ruby services in Scala).
(2) You may need to use a particular JVM library (there's a lot of really good ones).
(3) Some spaces of the open-source ecosystem are largely written with JVM languages (especially in the data space: Hadoop, Mahout, Spark, etc). If your team is heavily dependent on one of those spaces you may choose the JVM for your web applications simply to focus your teams knowledge and tooling on one platform.
Comment · 13 years ago
There are heroku buildpacks for C: https://github.com/atris/heroku-buildpack-C
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm a designer who knows how to code (or more accurately: a coder who knows how to design).
When I am mocking and laying things out, it's much faster to use Photoshop because it's easier to just drag objects around instead of tweaking CSS properties (at this point I'm mostly just dragging around and resizing vectors/shapes/photos/text to get them in the right size/position).
After I'm pretty satisfied with the layout I will go into vim or Sublime Text and start hammering out the actual design in CSS. I find tweaking CSS properties and refreshing my browser to be at least as productive as editing layer styles in Photoshop (if not more productive). Features of CSS like gradients, borders, opacity, shadows, etc. actually make it a very reasonable environment for quickly iterating on designs (especially when paired with SASS/Compass or LESS). Plus it saves you a step (it's gonna need to be coded sometime anyway...). YMMV
Comment · 13 years ago
I believe they are referring to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332192
Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6g9UlmEZDXgrkY88AJZ6MUr...
It still seems like a WIP