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Chris Strom
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Chris Strom's personal blog at japhr.blogspot.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
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- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-29
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Yah, that's actually where I got the original idea: http://japhr.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-chain.html (should have made that more clear). I'm never going to reach Seinfeld levels, but that's all right.
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on “How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome”Submitted How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome as a story · 457 points
HN discussionYou can find JS Interop docs at: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/js-dart-interop/ IMO integration is as straight-forward as it gets, basically just use a HTTP Client to call JSON services. Here's an AngularDart example for calling a REST backend: http://japhr.blogspot.com/2013/10/http-requests-in-angularda... I've also created a JsonClient that provides a terse API for calling JSON services: https://github.com/dar…
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on “Dart 1.5”Submitted Issues faced by Ruby Beginners as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI agree that the PDF formatting leaves something to be desired. We are using the OSS git-scribe ( https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe ) toolchain for producing PDF, Mobi, and ePub. I have already put a ton of work into the toolchain to make it better ( http://japhr.blogspot.com/search/label/git-scribe ). Most of that work, however, was to help get the Mobi and ePub versions up to snuff. I plan to take a week or so…
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on “Recipes with Backbone.js ”Submitted Full Stack ETag Support using Rack::Cache, Sinatra, and CouchDB as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm one of the authors of another Backbone ebook (more Rails integration focus), and I heartily recommend Nick & Chris's book. Great content, well-written, and applicable. One of my personal principles is that I value educational content and training very highly. It's a worthwhile investment - worth the money at over twice the price. These guys have been thinking hard about these problems for some time. You can see…
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on “Recipes with Backbone.js ”Submitted I blogged for 1000+ days straight as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been following japhr's blog http://japhr.blogspot.com/ . He has some great articles on his chain about writing http://spdybook.com/ If you want to know more about spdy from on node.js w/ full unit testing then I recommend reading through his blog and book.
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on “SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web”Submitted Firefox vs. Chrome SPDY/3 Performance Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell maybe this will at least result in someone resurrecting it, especially considering there is finally a second browser supporting it (using Firefox 11+spdy with gmail right now) and new server support is in development. His website has some useful posts too, thanks for mentioning him: http://japhr.blogspot.com/2011/04/sniffing-spdy-with-ssldump...
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on “SPDYshark - WireShark extension to analyze SPDY protocol”Submitted Edge Node-SPDY and Express.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SPDY Server Push in Edge Node-SPDY as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plan for Laziness in Dart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why DART? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spdy/3 Push as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox SPDY/2 vs SPDY/3 in Graphs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reusable Flow Control in SPDY/3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mod_spdy: revisited as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dartium as a story · 1 points
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