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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by ijoey »

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #62

Same project I've been working on for the better part of 3 months, unfortunately: a web based chat using GWT to replace a flash based one. The primary reasons are: we wanted to control the source code and remove dependecy on third-party products and becase we want the chat to work on iPad so flash is out. Running into tons of stumbling blocks primarily around keeping the app near realtime and stable. It's GWT on the…

I did this at the end of 2008. Try adding the fact that the chat service was on a different domain and they wanted to use it like a web service doing cross domain requests WITHOUT Flash.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by lovskogen »

chime wrote: post #233
csallen wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind if I ask where you'll be getting your customers (clients) from as a new consultant?

I'll be consulting for my current job itself. Voluntarily going from fixed salary to hourly consulting gig. No daily responsibility, fewer hours, much higher hourly pay. I'm pretty certain I'll end up being significantly more productive because I will get to pick my own projects and not have to deal with meetings, obligations, or personal issues with coworkers. I'm giving up a double-sized corner office at a growing…

How did your employer react to you wanting to move outside the firm and become a consultant?

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Post by mahmud »

yan wrote: post #51

Wrapping up my last day at the office.

Hey Yan, the ying to my yang! :-)

I am the opposite, I am starting my gig on Monday and getting ready for it. 2 laptops 1 guy, and an exercise ball. The label is "CTO" but the job description is "make someone's dream come true, on time and under budget". Back to the grind, Skype, GotoMeeting, blackberry, and a 45 minute commute to Reston, initially 6-days/wk.

On the plus side, I have 8-devs and 2 graphic designers. Fun times! :-D

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Post by gcb »

csallen wrote: post #229
kungfooey wrote: post #228

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Geeze, your setup looks unusually similar to mine (that looks like an ASUS). (I have an ASUS laptop w/ a 21" monitor and an old Macbook for iPhone dev.)

Toshiba Satellite w/ a 21" monitor and a Macbook for iPhone dev as well :)

love the speaker stand. but that's too much glare to stay sane.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by lovskogen »

Today I'm taking a two hour trip with my grandad (born 1917) up to our log cabin at Vassfaret, Norway. Kinda looks like this: http://image54.webshots.com/154/2/36/38/451523638WCSqPv_fs.j...

I always wanted to do more things with him. He thought he'd never would see the cabin again, but this will be his final trip up there. I'm going to spend some days, breathing in mountain air and doing some thinking.

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Post by mitchellhislop »

mattyb wrote: post #259
espadagroup wrote: post #92

Being a business guy by day and teaching myself PHP by night using this tutorial: http://devzone.zend.com/article/627

I applaud your efforts, but those tutorials are old and crusty. Please get a good book or two. http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-JavaScript-Step-Step/dp... http://www.amazon.com/PHP-MySQL-Web-Development-4th/dp/06723... Don't buy both, too much overlap. Just pick the one you like. The latter is long, but worth it. I've got more recommendations if you're interested.

I also recommend the second one.

Not to hijack, but setting up a local server (MAMP or XAMP) and building/breaking things has helped me in learning a few languages. Its worth a night to do it.

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Post by ttrashh »

city41 wrote: post #211
ttrashh wrote: post #195

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My experience with Silverlight has been different. I like it enough that I'm actively looking for a full time Silverlight job now. -- HTML/CSS/JS cross browser issues are a huge problem. As a web dev I waste an INSANE amount of time dealing with them. Silverlight solves that issue (I've never seen the mac issues you spoke about though). -- Javascript debugging is horrible. Firebug helps but it's not even close to usi…

> I like to unit test and it allows me to do model-view-viewmodel. Almost everything I write is testable and it feels elegant. What are you using for testing? How well does it integrate with Visual Studio, how easy is it to debug a test, and how well does it integrate with your build tools? Silverlight's lack of proper testing environments is one of the biggest strikes I have against it. I'd love to rectify that.

I'm using Visual Studio unit tests (mstest) to test my viewmodels. Nunit would work too. I use model-view-viewmodel so I have very little (or no) code in the codebehind. If you want to take testing further look at the silverlight unit test framework in the silverlight toolkit. I haven't tried that but it seems to get updated with every version of the toolkit.
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