Kicking things off

My purpose here is to document various thoughts and findings as things come up, or come to mind. All strictly technical, and kind of a development diary of sorts. While ideally, others may find these things useful, my main intent is to have them here for my reference ;-)

Still, I'll try to write them in tutorial fashion

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React Simplicity

This is just a quick intro to React to show how easy it is on a very basic level. React is often compared to Angular, but the two are very different: Angular is more of a framework , whereas React is more of a library . So, with React, we can make Components, and in so doing, we can intersperse plain Javascript to instill behavior. This article is not showing (or using) best practices, or a recommended structure. It's purpose is only to show how easy the basic mechanics of React are. Let's grab the getting started cli from React's page npm install -g create-react-app create-react-app my-app cd my-app npm start After this is done, and you have the project displayed in your browser, let's experiment. A boiler-plate header we can use for each new class can be as simple as: /src/Foo.js import React, { Component } from 'react'; class Foo extends Component { render(){ return(); } } export default Foo; So, all that we need to change to get st

Install current SBCL on OS X

You must have Command Line Tools installed. If you don't , this tutorial is not for you. Google: installation of XCode and Command Line Tools. Normally, I use brew to install things (when it offers a solution), but in this case the keg version was a couple minor version's off. And, there had been sufficient addition's that motivated me to want the current release. So, building from source was the path of least resistance. First, what not to do : The note's caution against using OS X's Terminal , as their make.sh script pukes a shit-ton of text during the build, and according to them, it can slow the build. I did not experience an issue with this, compared to other builds I've done in the past. BUT , they also say build can be accomplished with other LISP's installed (you must have a lisp installed prior to building). OMFG , unless you want to wait a month of Sunday's, my experience building with CLISP was slower than the Molasses in January. D

Dead Simple React.js with Meteor

I spent a little time exploring the patterns involved in using React.js with Meteor. It's incredibly easy, it turns out. I'll show some examples here. The setup: meteor add kadira:flow-router npm install react react-dom react-mounter npm install react-addons-pure-render-mixin meteor add react-meteor-data Then of course remove all blaze related meteor packages. Ok, Some basic component patterns: Let's create one that accepts a single argument: Hello.jsx import React from 'react'; export const Hello = ({name}) => ( <div>Hello, {name}</div> ); That's all there is to it. Now, let's see a pattern for a component that takes two arguments. We can see that to add further arguments, we can just tack them on after the first two: TwoArgs.jsx import React from 'react'; export const TwoArgs = ({one, two}) => ( <div> <h2>TwoArgs!</h2> <h3>One is: {one}</h3> <h3>Two is: {two}&

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