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dengar007··on Ask HN: Does anyone use online standup tools?
I like https://tatsu.io for slack standup meetings.
dengar007··on Show HN: Griddle 1.0 – A customizable datagrid component for React
I wonder if Griddle could help you out here. I think you can add a fake column that you will set up to get the entire row of data.

<Griddle data={fakeData}> <RowDefinition> <ColumnDefinition id="id" /> <ColumnDefinition id="name" /> <ColumnDefinition id="somethingTotallyMadeUp" title="New value" customComponent={connectedCustomComponent} /> </RowDefinition> </Griddle>

From there, you can basically render whatever you want from the made-up column (but have access to everything in the row to base it on). See the following for connecting a custom component to Griddle's state management:

https://github.com/GriddleGriddle/Griddle/blob/master/storie...

and

https://github.com/GriddleGriddle/Griddle/blob/master/storie...

dengar007··on Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
This is incredible!
dengar007··on Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps
I'm not at the conference and haven't had a chance to read too much into this yet (so if the answer is just wait you'll see that's good :D)

Can I use the same kind of jsx I am on the web today or is there going to be something different? Will sharing components between web and native mobile apps be possible?

dengar007··on Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
Yea that is very nice!
dengar007··on Marty.js – A JavaScript library for state management in React applications
This looks fantastic. Great work on the documentation too!
dengar007··on Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
One could use React with one of the more established Grid plug-ins -- jQuery grids for instance. (here is an example of someone using KendoUI gauges with React http://ifandelse.com/using-reactjs-and-kendoui-together/)

With Griddle, we were trying to mostly stick with React so it could be used without other libraries (we do currently have a dependency on underscore but we're hoping to remove that at some point in the future as well).

dengar007··on Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
Sorry about that. There'll be a fix in the .1 release (which won't be too far out)
dengar007··on Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
Thanks for the suggestion -- you're right that should definitely be there. We'll add a github link soon.
dengar007··on Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
One of the library authors here -- That sounds like quite the table! I wouldn't doubt that Griddle would have a bit more overhead than the solution you mentioned. I wonder if the performance would be better in this version -- not saying it would necessarily but it may :) We stripped out one of the more complicated parts (the piece that let people specify a callback to obtain external data) to its own component.

Horizontal scrolling definitely sounds like an interesting idea. Seems like it would be feasible to add -- I'll have to think about that a bit more. Also, if the solution you came up with is online anywhere I'd love to see it!

dengar007··on Ask HN: Do you prefer to learn by watching videos or by reading books/articles?
Most of the time reading for the reasons others have stated(scannable, copy examples, etc). That said, there are times where I read something a number of times and the concept still doesn't click. In those instances a short video of just that specific concept is great. Short, hyper-specific screencasts are useful where exhaustive videos are not as much (to me).
dengar007··on Is Sublime still alive?
I know Atom is still in its infancy so this is not a bash on it at all. The vim mode is what gets me. I keep using Sublime mostly because the vintage mode is quite good in comparison.

I really want to use Atom for the reasons you stated :)

dengar007··on Is Sublime still alive?
I purchased it a long time ago. I know of others who have as well. It's nice they have the never ending demo -- but I'm glad people pay for it. It's a great editor.
dengar007··on Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React
Added it :) Didn't even realize that existed until seeing this thread.
dengar007··on Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React
Nice -- I didn't know about this site. Added the component I've been working on to it :) Thanks for sharing!
dengar007··on Show HN: Reactable – fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React
Hey cool! I've been working on something similar. http://dynamictyped.github.io/Griddle/

I'm glad to see more components coming to React :)

dengar007··on Toledo-area water advisory – Microcystin found in samples
Not entirely apples-to-apples but there was water contamination in west virginia earlier this year and it was over 5 days before water drinkable again (that was due to a spill though and not algae).
dengar007··on Toledo-area water advisory – Microcystin found in samples
This is why I get most of my news from the Internet. The other news stories are definitely important but being in the toledo area (thankfully in a town that doesn't get water from Lake erie) kind of gives this one a bit more immediate relevance.
dengar007··on Show HN: Griddle, a simple grid component for use with React
Beyond the docs and the github repo some additional information is available here. http://ryanlanciaux.github.io/blog/2014/07/08/introducing-gr...
dengar007··on Ask HN: What OS do you use? for web dev
Windows 8 + Vagrant for projects that run better on Linux (node/ruby/etc).
dengar007··on Ask HN: Most productive OS for web developers?
I've been finding 8.1 really nice also. Design apps like Photoshop / Macaw etc work fine in Windows... for things like Rails / Node (stuff that seems to be a better experience on Linux systems...) I've been using Vagrant to setup a box specific to the project.
dengar007··on Amazon Fire TV
What if this could handle steam in-home streaming?
dengar007··on Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
Ya that's one thing I would like to avoid also.
dengar007··on Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
It would be great if there was some way to write Sublime / Vim / whatever plugins that use this.
dengar007··on Ask HN: Is there a way to generate text editor color schemes?
For visual studio : http://frickinsweet.com/tools (one i wrote years and years ago) OR http://studiostyl.es/
dengar007··on Google to Acquire Nest
Now you can +1 your temperature!
dengar007··on Ask HN: Why did Microsoft develop their own tablet?
I think you're dead-on. Windows 8 would get a bad rap because some vendor installed it on crap hardware. I think MS releasing their own hardware is wise -- it basically sets the bar for what a Windows 8 tablet should be.
dengar007··on .NET vs PHP in the Enterprise (comics strip)
Data Access Layer
dengar007··on .NET vs PHP in the Enterprise (comics strip)
People can write bad code in any language -- It just seems that alot of the people who write bad code prefer PHP; that's not to say there aren't some amazing PHP coders out there.