Google have released their new DART language, and being a GWT developer, this is something I’m very interested in.
As a response, I’ve created dartwatch.com so that I can blog specifically about my experiences with google dart.
As part of my node.js eventington project (https://github.com/chrisbu/eventington), I’ve been setting up my laptop with linux and windows dual boot (again).
This time, though, I used wuby, rather than installing from the ubuntu or fedora live cd – what I didn’t realise is that this causes linux to live in a virtual disk which exists within windows as a file, meaning it’s super-easy to get rid of if you need to reinstall (I’m having problems with the touchpad driver, and managed to mess up my x config).
It still gives you a boot menu option, and as far as you’re concerned, you’re just using good old linux, but if you need to uninstall it, though, that’s easy too
Simply go back into windows and use standard uninstall – this gets rid of the linux virtual disk and the boot menu option. I’m sure there’s probably a performance hit in using a vdisk rather than a real partition, but I can live with that for the time being.
(ok, why not just get rid of windows? I need it for visual studio / c# / vb.net / sql server development).
(ps – I’ve not mentioned eventington yet – sssh, it’s still secret!)
Ok, the requirements for the blog engine are as follows (in no particular order):
- input a post (this is fairly fundamental!)
- formatting of a post
- allow “source code formatting” in a post
- commenting on a post
- adding tags to a post
- putting a post in categories
- generating a shortened url for the post (bit.ly / goo.gl or similar)
- spam filter for comments
- comment moderation
- draft posts (ie, written but not published)
- images within posts
- share to google+, twitter, facebook
- send email when someone comments
- managing the blog attributes (eg, blog title, email settings, etc…)
I think that will do for the moment.
Whilst thinking of a subject to blog about, and installing wordpress yet again, I came up with the idea to blog about the development of a gwt blog engine. I’ve been meaning to write a gwt reference application, so here goes. It’s going to be called GWiTblog (short for “Get on with it” blog, and you can track the progress at my github repo, here: https://github.com/chrisbu/GWiTblog
I read in an interesting post today that Joyent (primary sponsors of node.js) are getting official help from Microsoft to get node.js working well in a ms infrastructure.
More here: http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/06/23/porting-node-to-windows-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-help/
and discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2688270
