marcgg

That's how I understood it

thanks!

There is a demo, but it's a bit buggy and wouldn't survive the Hacker New effect ^^.

The code however is on github: https://github.com/marcgg/websockets-experiments It's VERY poorly written as I kept throwing code away and trying out stuff so don't look at it too closely.

Yes, it's my first time using socketio. So, yeah, I must have missed a lot. The gain in speed was visible, but maybe it wasn't for the reason I thought

I'm not sure why you'd want to use PhoneGap if you're also using RubyMotion, but it seems possible.

Some can be, but I'm far from knowing everything in this domain. I'll post more articles as I learn.

It's not that hard, it's just a matter of saving some time on weekends for instance.

If you don't have a lot of hours to put into them, just reduce the scope and do something you can complete in a few evenings / nights. Then if you're happy with it, you can iterate and get a real product out of it.

I elaborated more on the subject on my blog a few months back if you're interested: http://marcgg.com/2012/01/09/start-working-on-your-side-proj...

Yeah, some people really go overboard when it comes to Vi configs! I still find most configs to be at least usable though.

It's a different approach that works for some people. These days I don't like having to do ctrl+* to do an action, I find that it strains a bit my hand when repeated for days on end. To each his own.

Vim is a good editor in itself. People have debated for ages about why, and how it could be better than others. I didn't want to do that in this article. Here I just explain the final selling point for me (might not be for most people).

Also Vim is not as complex as it seems. It's just very weird at first because of the fact you have to change modes - hence the struggle, but you feel a boost in productivity after a while.