Comments for Bubble Foundry

Comment on Dutch Web Companies by Alex

Alex — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:17:40 +0000

Perhaps you can include our company in to the list.
Nina Quax Creative Studio
http://www.ninaquax.com

Thanks

Comment on Javascript Primitives by Peter

Peter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:16:42 +0000

That's not true, Javascript does not always upgrade a string primitive to a String object. Consider the following:


var a = "myString";
var b = new String("myString);
typeof a // -> string
typeof b // -> object
a == b // -> true
a === b // -> false
a instanceof String // -> false
b instanceof String // -> true

This distinction matters when you want to do some basic type checking, for instance to ensure that your method was passed a string rather than a plain object. Since Javascript does usually upgrade primitives to their corresponding object versions, it's really only when you're using typeof and instanceof that the distinction between string primitives and objects matters. I like the following code to test for a string: (typeof myVar == "string") || (myVar instanceof String) Of course Javascript is not a language I would direct a person to for immutable variables: I'm partial to Scala myself.

Comment on Javascript Primitives by Pepijn de Vos

Pepijn de Vos — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:37:03 +0000

The question is, does it matter? Since a String is wrapped in an object, when do you ever get or want to deal with the primitives?

If you want to have a look at real immutable values, have a look at Clojure, not really related, but cool anyway.

Comment on HTTP for Web Developers by Cross-domain caching « Wishful Coding

Cross-domain caching « Wishful Coding — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:15:16 +0000

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Comment on OpenID and oAuth on App Engine by Ben

Ben — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:00:58 +0000

You can route your fake domain to localhost

http://www.fakedomain.com:8000 (set in /etc/hosts in os x). Then just use that to run the server and as the call back url. You can also combine that with a DNS forwarding service if need be.

Comment on OpenID and oAuth on App Engine by Norbert

Norbert — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:15:10 +0000

Would be nice to be able to test locally without a public IP address. I couldn’t find a solution for that either.

Comment on Understanding Lift’s SiteMap by Peter

Peter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:16:34 +0000

Thanks, Randin. I would love to get more feedback before I put this on the Lift wiki, though perhaps that’s the whole point of using a wiki!

Comment on Understanding Lift’s SiteMap by Randin

Randin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:36:05 +0000

Have you thought about posting a link to this post on the Lift Wiki?

http://wiki.github.com/dpp/liftweb

BTW, funny story I had this post and Timothy Perrett’s post on sitemap open, I meant to write to you and put it on his instead. Needless to say that stymied my comments for a bit.

Comment on Scala Books by Feargal

Feargal — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:07:50 +0000

Programming Scala is OK and its of course deeper and ore far reaching than beginning Scala but for some things it does not quite work for me.

I’ve been reading this one which is very good from the bits I’ve read so far.

http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/index.html

Comment on Scala Books by Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:00:50 +0000

Thanks, Randin, for the suggestion. It looks good!