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Re: Our SVN, Bz and Dev-Blogs are up!

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Re: Diff’ing my way to the scrapbook!

Midwest Scrapbook — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:12:55 -0000

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Re: Programmer Happiness – onroad to Rails3

Happiness — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:30:25 -0000

Can anyone define the
word Happiness? What is Happiness we do not know because every single person
has its own meaning of happiness. Finding the ways to be happy in life is
only a way that can make everyone happy in this world.

Re: Trip notes – Gangtok, Sikkim

Manav K — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:11:06 -0000

yup, amazing symmetry

Re: Trip notes – Gangtok, Sikkim

makuchaku — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:10:10 -0000

Thanks!
Corrected the mistake... :)

Re: Trip notes – Gangtok, Sikkim

Dhiraj Pandey — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:56:38 -0000

Awesome trip advices :) just one correction is needed. Nathula pass's height is 15000 ft, not 1500. :)

Re: Simple MapReduce with Javascript

makuchaku — Mon, 09 May 2011 06:31:55 -0000

Why not run the reducer on browsers as well?
& keep reducing in an inverted tree fashion till you can't reduce any further :D

Re: Simple MapReduce with Javascript

Sachin Saluja — Mon, 09 May 2011 01:39:51 -0000

Perfect example...!! just run the reducer on a server and mapper on as many nodes as possible...

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Bryant Hughes — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:03:53 -0000

thats how ive always handled it as well

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

methodin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:26:13 -0000

Wow. Your last sentence is the worst comparison I've ever heard. You clearly have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Stephen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:08:41 -0000

This just proves why jQuery is not as great as people make it out to be. PrototypeJS and many other frameworks have had context binding functionality (not to mention variations, like binding as an Event Handler, where the first argument is guaranteed to be the event object, and of course currying) for literally years, and they are much more obvious to use.

This is just another reason why I think of jQuery as the MS Frontpage of Javascript Libraries.

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Frank Denbow — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:36:54 -0000

Looks good. Javascript: The Good Parts is on my list as well.

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

makuchaku — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:26:32 -0000

Try out http://www.facebook.com/AdoMad...

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

makuchaku — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:22:57 -0000

Other parts of the app use Backbone.
FBNotificationWatcher is a simple implementation based on JS.Class (http://jsclass.jcoglan.com/cla...

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Jerome Etienne — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:09:26 -0000

what about setTimeout(this.getNotification.bind(this), 42); ?

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Frank Denbow — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:09:25 -0000

Yep! Reminds me to explore some of the aspects of Jquery that I rarely use. Also to check out Backbone to organize my js a bit better.

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

masklinn — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:06:00 -0000

Two improvements to your current technique:

* jQuery.proxy(this, 'getNotifications') does the same thing as jQuery.proxy(this.getNotifications, this) and is (I find) more readable. Though it's more liable to typos

* Since you're using backbone, you've integrated underscore. Underscore provides both _.bind, which does the same thing as the first form of jQuery.proxy (the one you use) but adds the possibility to curry the function (provide additional arguments immediately) and _.bindAll. _.bindAll is not called when setting a callback on an event, it's called after creating an object (or instance), and it calls _.bind on each method and then re-sets them in place. So in your example you'd just add ``_.bindAll`` in the first line of the constructor, and then use ``setTimeout(this.getNotifications)``, and you'll get the right context everywhere.

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

makuchaku — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:03:37 -0000

Thanks!
Will try it out the next time...

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

makuchaku — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:03:14 -0000

I'm glad that this post was of any help :)

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Jonathan Pasquier — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:37:31 -0000

Is there any added benefits upon using a closure?
For instance,
var that = this;
setTimeout(function() { that.getNotifications() }, this.timeout);
would do the job.

It's two lines instead of one, though :-)

Re: Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world!

Frank Denbow — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:29:48 -0000

Cool! I didnt know you could force the context in this way. I too am getting heaving into Javascript (beyond the minor enhancements to sites, but using it as the primary driver of interaction). It is the way to go!

Re: Looking forward to an awesome 2011

makuchaku — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:20:31 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Looking forward to an awesome 2011

Anurag — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:21:00 -0000

awesome mayank... keep rocking !!

Re: How to commission developer machines in an agile way?

makuchaku — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:13:38 -0000

Thanks for writing such a wonderful library!

Re: How to commission developer machines in an agile way?

Matt Tanase — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:29:48 -0000

Hey Maku, thanks for the writeup! Let us know if you have any questions about blueprint.