Ask HN: What are you working on today? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by city41 » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 6:59 PM UTC

ttrashh wrote: post #195

city41 wrote: post #72

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There's not that much "wrong" with Silverlight. But I honestly can't find much "right" with it either. It just feels like Microsoft forked off and created this new platform that at the end of the day doesn't offer much benefit over HTML/JS/CSS. Granted, MS started Silverlight well before HTML5 started coming into form. Absolutely, C# is far more pleasant than JS and XAML is a nice alternative to HTML+CSS. All in all…

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.

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

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Post by geuis » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:00 PM UTC

I was working on this till 2am San Francisco time, so I guess technically it was today.

I started writing a Node.js client to consume the EVE-online api. They have no json support, so it means eating XML. I was able to plug in node-xml(http://github.com/robrighter/node-xml) and start getting usable data from the xml right before bedtime, so I consider that a short-term goal accomplished.

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

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Post by w1ntermute » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:01 PM UTC

dennisgorelik wrote: post #206

patio11 wrote: post #55

I am working on stuffing my face with burgers and chips prior to going back to the land of noodles and raw fish. Plus customer support emails, since birthdays and bridal showers don't stop just because I am on vacation.

Why go back to Japan if you are not Japanese salaryman anymore?

Because he enjoys living there?

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

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Post by GBKS » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:02 PM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #63

Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…

I can highly recommend CodeIgniter for small sites. I've been using it for a few projects now and the workflow has gotten pretty smooth.

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

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Post by grasshoper » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:02 PM UTC

kingkilr wrote: post #199

mattyb wrote: post #189

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What's your GSoC project?

Refactoring the internals of the Django ORM with an eye towards supporting non-relational databases, with a prototype backend for MongoDB.

Awesome. How will this relate with the current django-nonrel project?

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

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Post by idoh » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:05 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #55

I am working on stuffing my face with burgers and chips prior to going back to the land of noodles and raw fish. Plus customer support emails, since birthdays and bridal showers don't stop just because I am on vacation.

Mosburger doesn't give you your fix?

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

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Post by _corbett » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:05 PM UTC

Stayed up all night chatting politics with a friend in SF to preempt jetlag from flying to Poland, proceeded to fly to Poland, slept on plane 1/2, fixed niggly bug on plane 2/2, touched down in Warsaw, went to the Chopin museum, had some vegan pierogis. Now shipping three updates and heading to bed lamely early on a Friday night as said preemptive jetlag strike was only marginally successful.

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

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Post by elimisteve » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:09 PM UTC

Finishing up my first iPhone app, which I've made with Appcelerator Titanium so I can code in Javascript instead of Objective-C. Exciting! :-)

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

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Post by kingofspain » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:09 PM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #196

qeorge wrote: post #172

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I'd be curious to hear what you think of CodeIgniter, I have heard good things. We've been using CakePHP for about 3 years now, and would highly recommend it as a general purpose PHP framework.

I am not going to lie, I chose CodeIgniter over CakePHP because I found some cool video tutorials on CodeIgniter the day I was most interested and went from there. So far, I like it; but, that might just be liking the MVC model.

The CI videos are great. I got a better (basic, admittedly) grip on MVC in 20 minutes than I did in a year of essays, forum posts and lectures.

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

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Post by dennisgorelik » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 7:11 PM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #213

dennisgorelik wrote: post #206

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Why go back to Japan if you are not Japanese salaryman anymore?

Because he enjoys living there?

That's a given (otherwise he wouldn't go). The question is -- why does patio11 enjoy Japan?