Author Archives: Kane Baccigalupi

RubyMotion Block Scope Bug

July 16, 2012 - 10:09 am

As a Rubyist, there is not much that is more exciting to me than the idea programming iOS in Ruby. For that reason, I was excited to try RubyMotion (link). Unfortunately, in our experiments, we pretty quickly ran into a bug that seemed to be a deal-breaker until we were able to experiment our way [...]

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Undelete a branch in git

July 5, 2012 - 11:29 am

The other day I had a bit more insomnia than usual. As such it seemed like a good idea to clean up my local repository’s branches using the immediate and seemingly permanent -D option: git branch -D my_important_branch With just one tiny statement on the command line, I managed to delete the very stuff I [...]

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Reinventing the Wheel? Introducing Wheel.js

April 28, 2012 - 10:55 am

Does the world need another front end JavaScript framework? Yes it does. You should build one too.

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Manipulating the DOM, Google Closure vs. jQuery

March 9, 2012 - 1:36 pm

Comparing closure to jQuery is like comparing an apple to a fruit basket. Google Closure, a JavaScript library and compiler, features cross-browser event management, drag and drop support, shared server and client side templating, and a massively efficient code compressor. Closure was used and refined at Google for years before it was released at the [...]

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