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Rey Bango
Personal blog · blog.reybango.comwebprogramming
Rey Bango's personal blog at blog.reybango.com covers web and programming. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rey Bango's posts on free official Internet Explorer virtual machines for testing, and on IE9 developer tools compared with IE8. The comments cite these posts rather than judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Security and stuff...
Most-linked posts?
- What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-17
- YOU CAN’T GET COMFORTABLE IN WEB DEVELOPMENT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-07
- Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-27
- Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine in IE2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-08
What Hacker News says?
Per the blog post listed from modern.ie, the IE6 VMs expire after 90 days and the others become crippled after 90 days. Sounds like more of the same. http://blog.reybango.com/2013/02/04/making-internet-explorer...
Comment linking /2013/02/04/making-internet-explorer-testing-easier-with-new-ie-vms/
on “Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac”Submitted Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE as a story · 267 points
HN discussion> Which they do, they've been offering complete VM images with various combinations of Windows and IE for some time, the current offering is XP + IE6, Vista + IE7, Win7 + IE8 and Win7 + IE9 I've used the IEVMs project on github to install these VMs before; it failed. I'm trying it again as we speak, maybe it's a viable solution, maybe not. > IE9's devtools are significantly better than IE8's: more feature and much m…
Comment linking /2012/05/08/hey-paydirt-your-site-works-just-fine-in-ie/
on “Supporting IE Is Too Much Work”Submitted What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript as a story · 164 points
HN discussionZed Shaw has some guidelines about that http://learnpythonthehardway.org . You'll learn some basic programming in a very good and versatile language. I learned web programming a few years ago. In my opinion, I gained about a 3 weeks head-start in productivity by choosing PHP, but I ended up making up for it for the next 3 years. There are other commendable books geared towards beginner programmers, but only a few th…
Comment linking /2010/12/15/what-to-read-to-get-up-to-speed-in-javascript/
on “Ask HN: How to get started with programming, web development?”Submitted Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine in IE as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Would You Ask the IE9 Team if you had the Chance? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted YOU CAN’T GET COMFORTABLE IN WEB DEVELOPMENT as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can't Get Comfortable in Web Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can't Get Comfortable in Web Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding ESLint to the Microsoft's New Code Editor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Results of my Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks Survey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript - Rey Bango as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Built the JSMentors.com JavaScript Mailing List as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep Your jQuery Code Simple with Templates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ngrok for local site testing in RemoteIE as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the topic of Impostor Syndrome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reality of the OSX App Store as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IE6countdown.com - Pushing for IE6 to Die as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Polyfills “fill in the gaps” to make HTML5 and CSS3 Usable Today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Create HTML5 Website and Page Templates for Visual Studio 2010 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which 3 Web Developers Would you Like to Spend a Day With and Why? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Essential List of JavaScript, jQuery, HTML & CSS Books as a story · 1 points
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