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Does your IDE define you or support you? | Colin Ross
As I have been watching the Masters snooker, there has been a great deal of discussion about Ronnie O’Sullivan breaking his cue before the tournament and then managing to play exceptionally well with a replacement which he has never used before. The majority of commentators seem to believe that this shows O’Sullivan’s natural prowess and flair for the game of snooker. I tend to agree.
At the same time, I have been following a discussion about Haskell at Integer Overflow where there has been a bit of a discussion in the comments about there not being an IDE for Haskell and that this is holding back the adoption of Haskell as a mainstream software engineering language. The argument goes that once the code base gets beyond a certain size, an IDE is necessary to simply get any work done. I tend to disagree.
Building desktop Linux applications with JavaScript: Page 1
The revolution is starting to happen....... "To gain traction on the desktop, the language has to be widely known, easy-to-use, and naturally conducive to rapid development. JavaScript, which meets all of these requirements, is becoming a compelling contender for the role. "
Digging into Paint Events in Firebug on kylescholz.com :: blog
"I'm always on the prowl for new tools and signals for analyzing and improving frontend performance. When Mozilla announced the new MozAfterPaint event in Firefox nightlies, I got excited and got to work.
John Resig posted a bookmarklet for viewing MozAfterPaint events, but I'm primarily interested in paint events that fire before onload(), so a bookmarklet isn't ideal. I stayed up late last night and created a simple Firebug extension for capturing and viewing these events."
spicycode's micronaut at master - GitHub
Micronaut is a light-weight BDD test framework.
FEATURES:
* API compatible with RSpec (of course)
* Slim and light, designed to be readable, compact, and fast. Just over ~1600 LOC in /lib at last count.
* Each example has its own metadata, and you can add filters or modules to run/disable/enhance examples based on that metadata at run time
* A Real-world example of the power the metadata gives you:
* “Focused examples”. Never drop out of Autotest again - just focus on the example(s) and ignore the rest
Spots: Find WiFi hot spots on your iPhone/Touch
"Spots helps you locate hotspots around you or anywhere on the world. No internet connection needed, no waiting while your iPhone connects with a website. Using its internal database of 230,000+ locations, Spots offers the results you are looking for immediately. The offline feature makes Spots work perfectly on the iPod Touch." (via @joehewitt)
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