This week in Twitter Jul 09 2010
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Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
rjs: Reeder on the iPad is growing on me. It’s fun to see the feed cards appear and disappear. More fun than a plain list w/ unread counts.
sstephenson: I want to rewrite all of our JavaScript in CoffeeScript. Am I crazy? http://bit.ly/6h5JKO
rjs: I hope my Gmail account learns that any email with the word “webinar” in it is spam.
sh: Chicago weatherpeople keep talking about our “tropical” weather. It’s funny how what they mean is wet & sweaty & hey your hair looks awful.
rjs: I’ve been on a Walter Murch kick lately. I highly recommend “The Conversations” as an intro to his impressive mind http://amzn.to/cNdRq9
mattlinderman: FYI iBookstore/Lulu: Apple gets 30% of revenue. Author gets 80% of remainding revenue. Lulu gets 20%. So $19.99 book = author gets $11.20.
asianmack: If you’re expecting immediate results, you will be disappointed… Most things worth doing take time before you see results. #10-minute-abs
dhh: Interesting. I’m in DK and can’t trigger the iPhone 4 reception issue by holding on the antenna band. In the US, I could every time.
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Daniel Von Fange 09 Jul 10
CoffeeScript? That bug has bitten me hard – I’ve been using it for two months for a large client side GUI application. No regrets yet.
RF 11 Jul 10
CoffeeScript looks incredible. The in-page compiler is pretty darn sweet, too.
It’s clever that it’s purely syntactical sugar, so you can write new stuff with CoffeeScript without junking your old code. Or junking libs like jQuery if you’re into that scene.
It seems like, potentially, one could write tools to translate a lot of JavaScript to (non-idiomatic) CoffeeScript. It’d be plenty of work - you’d need to borrow someone’s JavaScript parser, walk the syntax tree, and deal with some crazy corner cases - but you could. That’d definitely make the JavaScript->CoffeeScript transition easier.
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