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The one thing I really came to appreciate is the polished UI that ships with rethink, especially the query editor.

We've recently switched from a file based URL rewrite system to nginx/lua/redis. Before we'd literally include() the rewrites into our configuration files which made -s reload a pain. All in all the implementation was relatively painless, decreased our server reponse time quite a bit and scales way better than our previous naive approach.

Website down?

Angular, Go, Nginx, RethinkDB

I've been using this the past few days for testing elasticsearch queries, great tool!

Hi, I'm organising this meetup for the Go programming language in munich. Everyone is welcome, you don't necessarily have be a full blown go coder to enjoy the talks, beer & pizza :). It seems to be a pretty small round as of yet. If you happen to be free this evening, feel free to drop by.

http://gun.io/ is pretty good!

I always refer to Docker when telling people about Go. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much!

I tend to put sentences into google in order to verify that the structure / grammar / spelling of my writing has been used before. This makes writing longs posts very tedious and annoying, but I'm way to afraid to make any mistakes. Most of the time I end up deleting the whole post, just to be done with it. I wish there were more people like you who don't look down on people with poor english skills.

Anyhow, can anyone recommend a book or some articles on how to improve writing skills, especially of technical nature ?

Anyone else tried dragging the buttons on the landing page ? Spoiler: Not draggable:(.

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At STYLIGHT we try to change how people discover and shop fashion. We curate both products and user generated content to inspire people when shopping fashion. We have an amazing company & engineering culture, with loads of team events and possibilities for personal development (conferences etc.).

We're hiring across the board.

http://www.stylight.co.uk/Jobs/

Interested? Shoot me an email or directly to our CTO: schuon@cs.stanford.edu (Co-Founder)

This looks really cool and also impressive speed! I noticed when adding a custom (sub)domain it'd warn me about the domain not being registered. It does however seem to happily resolve to the site, so I'm happy!

Edit: Working now :) Also, mounting the folders over ssh feels very responsive and fast, great job.

And remember to use fun.prototype.apply if you're argument to $.fn.when is an array of deferreds or a function call that returns said array. E.g. $.when.apply(thisArg, array_of_deferreds).

A really good example is the Gorilla toolkit for Go. A few modules for common tasks such as sessions and routing, super easy to use with the standard net/http package thanks to implicit interfaces.

http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

Here's a relevant test: http://jsperf.com/queryselectorall-vs-jquery-jb

The pass thingy on 4chan is actually quite new.

I feel a little bit ashamed to post this but whatever. I used to write bots for a popular online game that would harvest materials and sell stuff in the games auction house. At first I only wanted to automate some tedious, boring tasks in the game, but over time I got really good at it to the point where I wouldnt have to touch my guy for days. Anyway, there where lots of bots on my servers and we would all undercut each other to a point where our materials where worth almost nothing. Around this time the company released an API where you could pull auction house data for your server. I wrote some scripts that would pull the data, store them in redis and crunch some numbers that I would later feed to my bots, to gain some advantage. Basically, I was able to withhold my stock when the price reached a certain threshold and buyout all of my competitions stock at super low prices. By that time I had already "scaled up" and ran several instances on various servers, all full automated by some python scripts. I wrote a web socket based web interface that allowed me to see my bots log messages in real time from work. I set up alerts when game masters messaged so I was able to answer them to prove that I was not a bot, all remotely. It was so much fun. At the end of each month I would sell the in-game currency to some chinese companies, the last few months I made between 300-500 € / month, double that amount around christmas. One day, the bann hammer (rightfully so!) hit me hard and I lost all my accounts. It still was a fun experience that introduced me to several new technologies.

Its not a bad thing to use jQuery. Basic understanding of the DOM should be sufficient, writing your own DOM wrappers gets old fast. Learn how to write good, idiomatic javascript. Read Crockfords "The Good Parts" and Steve Souders Blog. Learn about namespaces, closures, scope, hoisting. Understand how prototypes work. Try some script injection / module loaders like requirejs. Look at the source of some of the great front end frameworks out there, I always recommend backbone's annotated source [0]. Learn how to use build tools like grunt for minifying, testing and linting. Learn how to use chromes developer tools for debugging and performance, there is a great course on codeschool [1]. Maybe have a look at coffeescript. Javascript is a great language that is easy to begin with but hard to master.

[0]http://documentcloud.github.io/backbone/docs/backbone.html [1] http://discover-devtools.codeschool.com/

Also some of the best e-sports teams in the world come from Sweden, like SK Gaming or the winners of this years "The International" Dota2 tournament, Alliance.

I completed the beginners course at two different "boxes" in the last month and this is the first time I hear or read about this condition, so thanks for the write down.

That would be http://slipsum.com/

Create a money exchange calculator, that is bi-directional, as in $ -> €, € -> $. It covers basic arithmetic, event handling and maybe include an API call to one of the exchange rate API providers for ajax / JSON. The HTML / CSS should be based on a popular framework like bootstrap or foundation.

Also some basic questions that test theoretical knowledge like difference between null and undefined, prototype chains, function scope, module pattern etc.

I'm very happy with zoho https://www.zoho.com/mail/. If you want to use your own domain and you're not willing to pay for google apps, its a great alternative. Setup is extremely easy and the web interface is also pretty nice.

New Relic is pretty great if you want a hosted solution. If you want to roll your own I'd suggest starting with something like yahoos boomerang [0]. It gathers metrics on the client and sends them to your server over a beacon/pixel endpoint. I also really like this bookmarklet [1] to visualize the window.performance object.

[0] https://github.com/yahoo/boomerang [1] http://kaaes.github.io/timing/

We used appengine at a major european car rental company I was working for back then. We deployed a one instance mirror/backup of our booking app which basically cost us nothing. In case our servers, which we kept inhouse, were somehow unreachable we would forward all traffic to appengine and scale up accordingly. After the issue was resolved we would use various mapreduce jobs to migrate new bookings, cancellations etc. back to our servers. The app was written in python with flask on top. To store data we used the NDB Api which was a blast to work with. Overall a really nice experience.

Depends on your target audience imo. For a consumer facing product, If a considerable size of your traffic is coming from facebook, it sure makes sense to have that option.

I tried various asset management tools but prefer having grunt manage all frontend related things. Node projects seem to be better tailored for this. Especially stuff like linting and watching for code changes, plus having a js based config file for people that don't speak python.