dinkumise

Keep ya JavaScripts Dinki-di!

This is a repo that I attempted to live-code for Web Directions Code '12. I'll be posting a list of links and pointers from the presentation here, so stay tuned.

Things I mentioned

• I'm Jed Schmidt. Find me on twitter or Github.
• typd.in is a Japanese IME bookmarklet I wrote.
• Textpanda is another bookmarklet I wrote, inspired by Text Expander.
• Pastebud is the last bookmarklet I wrote, which solved early iPhone copy/paste issues.
• 140byt.es is a tweet-length code-golfing contest I started, written in Node.js.
• Ramendan is another Node.js contest I wrote, a 30-night ramen crawl based on the Twitter API.
• This whole presentation is about package management.
• node.js is the platform that makes everything I'm presenting possible.
• npm is the Node.js Package Manager.
• Rubyists use Rubygems and Bundler to manage their packages.
• PHPists use Composer and Packagist to manage theirs.
• Node.js is the most popular programming platform on Github with 15,000+ watchers, and has made JavaScript its most popular language.
• npm now has more than 10,000 modules
• Though it started on its own, npm is node and vice versa. According to @ryah, it may even eventually be called using node.
• Modernizr was the inspiration for Dinkumisr, which I live-coded for this presentation.
• If you like Dinkumisr, you'll love bogan ipsum.
• If you're looking for an npm module, nipster is often more effective than npm search, at least until more curation is built-in.
• If you're releasing open-source code, travis-ci makes it incredibly easy to test, and can be set up quickly using travisify. Looks like npat will bring similar functionality deeper into Node.js.
• An npm module needs only two things configured: a name and a version, the latter follows the semver spec, which is basically a convention of ..-.
• If you like managing your modules the way npm does, use Browserbuild or Browserify to bring it to the client.