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Toran Billups
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Toran Billups writes Paradigm Shift, a personal blog at toranbillups.com about programming and career. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Toran Billups's posts on Ember.js screencasts, Angular testing, Rails setup on Ubuntu, and Redux. One commenter calls an Ember.js screencast decent and a Rails setup tutorial invaluable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
A decent screencast: http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2013/03/02/emberjs-rc1-...
Comment linking /blog/archive/2013/03/02/emberjs-rc1-introduction-screencast/
on “"Getting started with Ember.Js is easy." - No it isn't”Submitted Unit testing your ember.js templates with jasmine as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI come from Backbonejs background with which I have worked for about 1.5 years. So I feel quite comfortable with it. I decided to try Emberjs - not for any other reason than trying to pick up something else and see how other JS framework approaches. I gave full two-days worth of time into it. Initially I thought - "How different can it get?" Plus, I believe even if it's very foreign I'll just keep reading, googling,…
Comment linking /blog/
on “EmberJS Confuses Me”Submitted Test Driven Development Is Hard as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI personally think ember has the best testability story for both unit and integration testing. The screencast below shows how to get started with ember / QUnit and karma http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2013/07/21/Integration-...
Comment linking /blog/archive/2013/07/21/Integration-testing-your-emberjs-app-with-QUnit-and-Karma/
on “How to build a large Angular.js application”Submitted Automatically activate virtualenv as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI also found the following tutorial invaluable for setting up rails on 10.04 (via RailsTutorial.org) http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2010/09/01/How-to-insta...
Comment linking /blog/archive/2010/09/01/How-to-install-Rails-3.0-and-Ruby-1.9.2-on-Ubuntu
on “Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You”Submitted The Mobile Development Report Card as a story · 2 points
HN discussionrelated, redux: http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2016/01/22/redux-for-th...
Comment linking /blog/archive/2016/01/22/redux-for-the-very-beginner/
on “Ask HN: Best book to learn ReactJS?”Submitted What agility means to me as a story · 1 points
HN discussion