Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

Post by sage_joch » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 5:22 AM UTC

apu wrote: post #6

Redis. Fucking awesome database. Does exactly what it's advertised to do, with no unexpected surprises. Great documentation. Finally we can go beyond the simplistic key-value map/reduce datastores, for when you don't need all the guarantees that traditional SQL forces you to have. http://redis.io/ (I still use postgres and sqlite for other database needs, but I'm strongly considering moving a few of those over to red…

Post by jaxtapose » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 5:42 AM UTC

dstein wrote: post #36

The iPad has changed everything. It's an entirely new type of computer that turned out to be substantially better than anyone imagined. Watch a 5-year-old use an iPad for the first time and you will immediately see and understand why this is a major paradigm shift. It's the first "socially acceptable" computer -- at Christmas I can pull out my iPad, plop it down at the dinner table and share pictures with the family,…

Post by nsm » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 5:51 AM UTC

jashkenas wrote: post #40

samdk wrote: post #11

2010 was, for me, the year of JS-related technologies. (I'm actually rather disappointed I haven't had more time to check out Clojure and to use Haskell and Scala more--I was doing quite a lot of front-end web stuff.) 1. Socket.IO ( http://socket.io/ ) It lets you use websockets and automatically fall back to flash sockets, long polling, or several other real-time communication methods if websockets aren't supported…

I'm looking forward to seeing someone combine Backbone.js with Websocket-based persistence. It's a bit out of scope for DocumentCloud to tackle, but the building blocks are there. One client makes a change to a model -> changes are synced to the server -> other clients that currently reference that model have its attributes updated -> all the UI that displays the model is automatically re-rendered. It's not critical…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 5:57 AM UTC

Post by jashkenas » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 6:14 AM UTC

nsm wrote: post #95

jashkenas wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm looking forward to seeing someone combine Backbone.js with Websocket-based persistence. It's a bit out of scope for DocumentCloud to tackle, but the building blocks are there. One client makes a change to a model -> changes are synced to the server -> other clients that currently reference that model have its attributes updated -> all the UI that displays the model is automatically re-rendered. It's not critical…

I'm doing something pretty similar to rumpetroll (it is fully functional rumpetroll now, but we will add more features) using Backbone Model View Collections as my 'Sprites'. The code isn't public yet, but me and a friend have some plans for it. The only thing different is that we've completely dropped use of Backbone.sync, for the sole reason that the method based approach does not fit very cleanly into what we are…