StrongLoop Blog

A few of my favoriates from my RSS reader (in no particular order) include:

- http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/ I love reading anything by Patrick McKenzie because he writes about incredibly valuable things, usually focusing on how to make sales, lifecycle emails, running his companies, and other general start-up related information. You might recognize him on HN as patio11

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/ CloudFlare has really excellent content and often writes about SSL/TLS related topics, which personally interest me. They have good technical explanations of SSL/TLS vulnerabilities and discuss how they provide SSL to all of their customers. Also, they discuss how they handle massive scale and other interesting things.

- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/week-in-review/ I often find really good articles linked from the AWS blog. I like to stay current on the latest/greatest features and improvements which AWS puts out there and the Week in Review posts are often easy to skim and see if a linked article is worth reading in its entirety.

- https://codeascraft.com/ Etsy's engineering blog is fantastic. I am always blown away at the passion that comes through from their posts. They seem to have a really sharp set of devs over there and I just enjoy reading their stuff. I especially enjoy the quarterly performance review posts, which show graphs about latencies throughout their stack.

- https://strongloop.com/ The StrongLoop blog has some really great content for NodeJS…

People who want to ruthlessly enforce their personal version of political correctness (Bryan Cantrill in particular, and Ben's employer Issac Roth, who seems to have competed with Bryan in a no-I-am-the-bigger-asshole contest) forced an important core committer out because he tried to enforce accepted commit policy. This is a particularly aggressive brand of feminism, one that I have mostly seen in the USA. It seems to be mostly dictated by people pushing through their changes based on their ideology at any cost, by branding anyone who opposes them as discriminatory oppressors.

The number of people I have heard saying stuff like "It was a politically sensitive PR, of course it should have been merged" is surprising. In fact, I would strongly recommend rejecting all such politically sensitive PRs on the basis that they are deliberately controversial, and asking the submitter politely to put their changes in a PR with more significant contributions that they submit to the project.

Relevant links:

[1] Original pull request: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

[2] Bryan's "I am going to fire Ben, even though he isn't my employee. Fired. Did I say fired yet?" blog post: http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

[3] Issac Roth's "We'll fire Ben if he doesn't learn grammar. Haha, j/k." blog post: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/collaboration-not-derision-in-the-node-community/

The comparison page highlights that Zone.js is better than promises because of long stack traces [1], but most promise implementations already have that [2]. I'm confused, that seems to be the only comparison to promises.

Edit: Conceptually it seems the same as promises. The main difference seems to be that they've added hooks [3] into the pipeline, and they duck punch the core API to intercept errors. Bluebird has solved this without duck punching using `Promise.promisifyAll(require("fs"))` [4]. I would love to see a write up on Zone.js's forks, because the article could of trivially been rewriten to use promises.

[1] http://strongloop.com/strongblog/comparing-node-js-promises-trycatch-zone-js-angular/
[2] https://github.com/kriskowal/q#long-stack-traces
[3] https://github.com/btford/zone.js/#zonefork
[4] https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird

So all this concept is new to me. I've skimmed over it. So, everyone is saying turbolink is just like pjax: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

There is also something interesting I've seen before in Java & Scala. It will run your code and render it automatically in the browser. If the other parts of the code is not finished it will later send it to be rendered to the web page. It happens in a single url path and it is not a single page application. Does anyone know what this is called?

Edit: I figured it out, by using playframework you do this by send a chunked response by streaming it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7IYY08Bb_4

So you can stream chunks in node as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11906198/node-js-write-http-response-to-stream

Strongloop: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/streaming-chunked-html-node-js-data/

(Downvoters of parent, please stop, it's a perfectly reasonable comment.)

While you're correct that JS can now be used to write Mac applications without an Obj-C wrapper, that's not really the point of this.

Anyway, you can already write Mac applications in JavaScript. And iOS applications! This has been true since iOS 7 and Mavericks. http://strongloop.com/strongblog/apples-ios7-native-javascript-bridge/

You can build double-clickable "applets" in AppleScript and JavaScript, but the OSA interface isn't really made for app development, just automation.

However, they do expose all Cocoa and Obj-C APIs to JavaScript, so anything is possible! They even do a demo of a standalone temperature converter at the end of the WWDC session.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/#306

Seems like a great product to quickly get started with a mBaaS in a powerful cloud like AWS. The concept looks really similar to StrongLoop's loopback [0] with a big difference: vendor lock-in. I like the openness that StrongLoop is bringing on this front... IMO the best solution is one that allows you to move your containerised API from cloud to another cloud.

That being said, having this as an option in AWS is pretty cool and potentially time-saving. I'll probably give it a shot soon.

[0] https://strongloop.com/node-js/api-platform/