Haven't tinkered with it yet but by default my VB seems to only let me go up to 1600x1200 for the Windows Guest. Won't tinker with it untill the Win install/security runthrough is done

Its not bug free tho... if you have too many windows open it starts to spaz out sometimes.

Full screen works now 1920x1200. Required installing the guest additions thingy.

I think I see what you mean Wooster, occasionally things get crazy like... windows get hidden behind other windows and the only way to fix them is to move the blocking window out of the way.

There's also occasional sizing issues where the rect size of the second monitor isn't being fully utilized for guest apps (it's like it's locked into a small non-seamless window's size), but this problem usually fixes it self magically.

Overall I can't complain too much though, it's a huge leap forward in productivity from before.

clown, the guest add-on also lets you share your clipboard too if you enable it in the vbox settings.

Has VirtualBox largely caught up with VMware at this point for workstation purposes? Anyone use both extensively?

VirtualBox I've found to work much better for development than VMware ever did. A true your mileage may vary moment, but I've found VirtualBox much easier to get onto the network and such.

VB is super easy, VMWare was kind of annoying with the signup to download etc. Advanced network config was also a bitch and required downloading some obscure tool that seemed to be hard to get on purpose.

I dunno if there's a Vagrant/Chef/VeeWee setup for VMWare which is what makes VB so great for (headless+portforwarded web) developing.

Can't see any issues with VB so far running a GUI Win7. Only downside is that I think the addons are proprietary but VMWare is fully so there's that.

VBox's networking was the easiest thing I've ever seen. Just set it to bridged adapter and boom, you're on the network with a local IP.

Q: Does this look like a good opportunity?

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac...608699867.html

If you want to learn word press it might be worth looking into because then you're getting paid to learn. Extra $ is always nice and the demands are close to non-existent in terms of hours per week.

The tone of that makes me think they want someone fresh out of high school who doesn't mind working for like $9/hour as a "web designer" though.

Would be funny if you got hired and after 2 weeks you wrote a DSL in clojure that let their secretary replace half their development team.

Of course, I want to be that guy...

Using Lisp makes you a good programmer about as much as using C makes you a systems engineer.

I just purchased a custom domain name for my GF for valentines day. This may backfire

I only added in the last part because I know you work in clojure and it's well known for being one of the best DSL creating languages.

You remember this from last year?

I'll raise you one better: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home...al-composition

Seems like both are using the same thing, Overtone.

It's a little disconcerting that the first most basic function in express.js doesn't match the API: http://expressjs.com/api.html#app.get

How the hell does app.get('/myroute', someFunction) work according to that API?

Yeah, but one is just giving a quick overview and the other is creating an entire Bach piece with it while breaking down the sonic side of music theory.

suzzer,

not sure i understand your question.

i would say that it sets the instance variable "/myroute" to the value "someFunction".

then presumably there's a handler that maps requests for /myroute to a call to someFunction.

edit: oh, uh... i would expect app.get(arg1, arg2) to be an error, or to ignore arg2, or to expect to have two values to stick into arg1 and arg2.

Just a wild guess, but it looks like someFunction should return a string that is concatenated to the end of the app object (or url) and they wanted to show that specifically happening without using the function because the function may be too hard to understand in lesson one?

So, you have something like

suzzer,

i think you're either reading or writing 'get' when 'set' is intended.

http://expressjs.com/api.html#app.VERB They're doubling up the get() function, which is just kind of weird. Get with two arguments is analogous to an HTTP get request (it maps the route to the function). But get with one argument is some kind of standard getter/setter.

Anyway I worked through that. Scoping in node/express is pretty weird. But I guess they have to be so that the modules will play nice to each other. It took me a while to figure out what the exports object was all about.

It looks like you definitely need to pick some kind of helper framework like jQuery or underscore to handle stuff like inheritance and doing your own JSON requests.

this is hella dumb.

it's probably javascript's fault. there's no scope like no scope!

I wouldn't really say it's dumb. Overloading is pretty common in every language. I think that's the only time he does it in express too.

I think it was more important to keep app.verb() working consistently while also keeping the typical get/set syntax familiar for properties on app itself. If you stick with Express you'll see that a lot of decisions he makes is for the sake of keeping the api easy to use while keeping productivity at a maximum.

Also you don't need fancy libs to do inheritance in JS. You have a few options. Don't forget since node is running on v8 you have guaranteed access to all of ES5's features. So using the "new Object(x)" features is fine. There's also the good old prototype based inheritance which works out of the box, I prefer this way but with JS there's usually 100 ways to do anything so it's rarely a case of one way being better than the other.

**** writing algorithms because they make me feel stupid.

Suzzer, how accurate was my guess then?

I read up on all those different types of doing inheritance, and everyone seems to have a different solution for stuff like deep copying, performance, and adding properties that are or aren't enumerable, etc. Every time I found a method that was supposed to work, somewhere in the comments there was some major drawback. I think I'd just rather let the framework figure that out for me.

Also what do you use to make JSON calls to a REST back end server? Do I have to write my own JSON get method?