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I'm really glad I checked out this posting because it led me to the author's other work, which is really impressive. http://kumailht.com/ Way to go, great looking stuff.

I want a very fast, client-side, read-only database with rich query support. Is this the best choice?

Thanks for the excerpt. It's not long, but I enjoyed the writing, it's crisp, fast-paced, and covers a lot of ground. (I imagine Peter's lectures to be similar!) This gave me the c…

I think it could work well to start with CoffeeScript -- that is, to learn JavaScript by first learning CoffeeScript. For the real world you must understand native JavaScript, of c…

Yes, there is a sample chapter: http://www.scriptybooks.com/books/backbone-coffeescript/chap...

Agree, though following this would lead me to extract all kinds of implicit library code from my applications. Likely not worth the effort without a genuine reuse story.

Reading the comments so far, this question seems to necessarily raise another: What is the best team size? Let's say it's 3. (1 has too much risk and 10 has too much overhead.) Onc…

I'm currently writing an eBook teaching Backbone.js in CoffeeScript, of about the same length as Recipes with Backbone. I'm still mulling over how to price it. Does anyone want to …

Why are recruiters so convinced that my inevitable destiny is to move to the Bay Area?

I published my notes on the differences as a blog post, "backbone-on-rails vs backbone-rails vs rails-backbone". http://www.coffeescriptlove.com/2011/11/backbone-on-rails-vs...