Flask, AngularJS and CORS
I am currently developing a website that will entirely be a Single Page Application (SPA). I started building the back-end in D and the front-end in AngularJS. I decided after a couple of weeks that Jeff Atwood was right in saying 'Storage is cheap, programmers are expensive.' Though D is a useful language, it was taking me too long to produce useful RESTful API endpoints, so I decided to make the switch to Flask given my familiarity with it.
Thoughts on D
I have spent the last few days learning a bit of D, I have contributed to a library, written my own library and developed a basic understanding of the language. It comes across as a very powerful and developer-friendly language. However there are a few downsides to it.
Musings about Web Application Development
In the ideal world is a great way to start any thought, then reality comes in and kills all your big ideas.
Running Jekyll on Heroku
My website once was an ASP.NET MVC website that was very full featured. I realised that most of the features weren't actually being used and I wanted to free up some spacing on my webhost.
Alternative to Entity Framework and the Repository pattern
About a year ago I wrote a post suggesting how one could approach the Repository and Unit of Work patterns when using Entity Framework, at the time I was somewhat new to Entity Framework and it was a shiny new toy that could do everything. Since then I've been involved in quite a few projects and though it is quite a nice framework, I've concluded that it's not the one tool to rule them all. I also realised that the Repository pattern isn't always the best approach to take.
Unique file name
I came across a curious piece of code as I was working my way through the project I work day-in-day-out on; not that curious pieces of code are rare in this project.
Coffee Heaven in Toronto - Te Aro
I am on a mission to find good coffee using Flat White café in Soho (London, UK) as my benchmark. I thought it was impossible here in Toronto, but I was wrong. Here's my finding from the delightful Te Aro Coffee Roasters on Queens East and Ossington.
Clipboard Cleaner
You know what grinds my gears? Long URLs, URLs littered with UTM tracking information, and YouTube URLs that contain more than they need - which is just the video ID.
Developers are not designers
As chaotic as the advertising world is, working at a couple of agencies in London gave me perspective and a lot of insight into the way things should be done; sometimes this was done inversely: I could see what was being done and realised that it wasn't exactly the right way to do it, but it made me realise a way that what was being done could be adapted to a more practical way.
Climbing Kilimanjaro
The summit of Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest point in all of Africa at 5,985m above sea level (ASL). One believed origin of the name is derived from the Chaga word 'Kilimankyaro' meaning 'difficult mountain to climb;' had we known that before we climbed, maybe we might have thought it better not to try. Luckily for us - we found out a few days after we started our ascent: far too late to turn around.
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