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I dunno reg, it struck me as ordinary journalistic due diligence. Showing up at his doorstep might have been a bit much (although we praise reporters for doing that in cases with j…

...I also used that as an example below the main example :-) And I have come to the same conclusion as you re: Backbone.

There is definitely such a thing as a book that was released too early.

I deliberately used a dated example because I figure it would probably ring a bell with a lot of people. Realistically this is a choice a lot of people were probably making around …

I almost invariably isolate any API calls behind some kind of wrapper facade. In fact, a lot of the presentation is about exactly that: adapting Ruby's IO primitives--which can rai…

I'm using Org-S5 ( https://github.com/sigma/org-s5 ) with some rather kludgey HTML and a heavily hacked-up stylesheet.

Footnote to (a): except for the slides which are intended to be unreadable because they are about the shape of the code rather than the content. An effect that works very well acro…

I'm not sure what you're getting at here, other than that trying to treat an array of arrays as an array of Hashes is a bad idea.

Hi HN. If you get some value out of these slides, great! But please, do me a favor: don't try too hard to construct a narrative from a stack of slides which: a) represent about 15%…

Thanks! I've queued this for a closer look.

I had someone else report an IE7 crash recently. I wish I could narrow down WHICH JS is the problem. It's just stock WordPress+various widgets.

Ruby has a public/private divide which can easily be circumvented. But the circumvention is a bit ugly, which is a good thing - it makes the circumvention obvious in the code. Pers…

The striving is the key. Keep it up!

As I'm usingn DPD for this book, I'm happy to hear that! P.S. Would you mind getting in touch with me? I have a script to share with you guys.

That's all you'll find in my book, I just made the font really big and quintuple-spaced it. ;-)

Yes, please.

That sounds super cool. I'm gonna check it out.

There's a video on the site of the conference talk that spawned the book, if that helps.

As I replied above, I'll probably work on Epub first because that's the format I got the most requests for when I did a survey. But after that I'd be happy to get some Mobi pointer…

I'm gathering feedback on which format to work on next. So far the most-requested has been .epub.

Nope! It's strictly a style issue. As I explain in the video (or the book if you buy it), as a result of a conversation with Jim Weirich I'm starting to use "fail" once again.

Oh, Perl. Sometimes I honestly do miss you.