Brent Sordyl's blog

Backbone Fundamentals – A Free Work-In-Progress Book For Developers Of All Levels

January 5, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Backbone Fundamentals hopes to change that. Whilst still a work-in-progress, my goal is to try adding something new or improving the book in some way everyday. That level of consistency can’t be promised forever, but I want to do my best to centralize the knowledge and experience I (and hopefully some other Backbone users) have learned somewhere that’s easy for developers of any level to just pick up.

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backbone.js, github, javascript

Repos.io – delicious for repositories

December 7, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Repos.io is here to help you organize repositories you own or follow on many sites (we call them providers), like Github, Bitbucket, Google Code…*

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GitHub: Rails Localisation YMAL Auto Translator

September 29, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

This little tool will automatically translate Rails localization yaml data into your specific. This translator understands YAML localisation data files, and will automatically presever placeholder strings ({{foo}}) in the cointent.

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Github Flow

September 19, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1. Anything in the master branch is deployable2. To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes)3. Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server4. When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request5. After someone else has reviewed and signed off on the feature, you can merge it into master6. Once it is merged and pushed to ‘master’, you can and should deploy immediately

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git, github, productivity

Goose – article extractor

May 16, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Project Goose is an article extractor written in Java using Maven for the dependencies. It’s an open source project born from Gravity Labs http://gravity.com, Its goal is to take a webpage, perform calculations and extract the main text of the article as well as make recommendations on what image might be the most relevant image on the page. Goose aims to create an easy to use, scalable extractor that can plug into any application that needs to extract structure from unstructured web pages.

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github, java, scraping, summary