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"Awesome 540 mate." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"That was awesome!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"I love skating." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"540s are the real deal!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"A comment about 540s and how much they rock!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Thanks Dom!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Thank you! One thing that wasn't immediately clear was that the application.js sprockets file actually parses these commented out lines and performs the include: //= require jquery" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"I never got anywhere with this. Flipped to ember.js and there seems to be a little more possibility, but still no "make it work eventually" feature in either library." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Well I think it's more honest to say that I have something of a reputation for dad jokes, so it needed to have a pun in there somewhere..." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Yep. I also bought and installed Cookie Stumbler, which wiped out my HTML5 local storage too (sites use this for tracking too) to make my life easier, but $18/yr seemed a little steep. I moved the Ghostery notifications to bottom right and I'm finding it fascinating being able to see what people are using on various sites and how much tracking is being done. I've not seen any more of these nasty ads!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Yeah. I had a chat with some of the guys at Aframe and the conclusion was that if there's a site that _really_ wants to uniquely identify you, they're going to be able to do it..." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"I had similar. I think the blocking feature is currently "beta" - and I agree, they should find a way to show you how much info you're exposing about your browsing. I'd guess that disqus just wants to automatically log you in to make your life easier?" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Ah well I'm now just attempting similar elsewhere :-) No I don't think I'm getting cynical - just more aware of influence and connections. And the connections that might matter for Birmingham right now are probably through people who aren't in the city. I'll think about that a bit more..." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Oh it really is. Wow - the place gives you stomach knots and guilt galore when it wants to!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Nice to see you too. I'm not sure I was robbed - it was quite therapeutic for me in some ways. I left town quite suddenly and was under and NDA about what I was actually doing so nice to be able to talk freely again..." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Aha - well done! I'll take a look :-)" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Aha - well done! I'll take a look :-)" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"You're right - it's now been reactivated (it came up with a deactivated notice). In the past I've read about similar situations that resulted in the tweets being destroyed in the process." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"You're right - it's now been reactivated (it came up with a deactivated notice). In the past I've read about similar situations that resulted in the tweets being destroyed in the process." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"That's really strange - I've not heard anything from them. Ah well." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"That's really strange - I've not heard anything from them. Ah well." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"We had similar issues with various edge cases that are handled differently by the various to_jsons. We tried creating our own in_json method (too much to maintain), moving to bundler, specifying a load order for the gems, then eventually  included active_support just to be defensive... and lots more. We still get the occasional issue with point upgrades - raised errors when serializing 'nil', or attempting to serialize [], or objects that have their own to_json/as_json method.In the end I came to the same conclusion - I love Ruby, but I also hate some of the hoops you have to jump through because it is so malleable." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"We had similar issues with various edge cases that are handled differently by the various to_jsons. We tried creating our own in_json method (too much to maintain), moving to bundler, specifying a load order for the gems, then eventually  included active_support just to be defensive... and lots more. We still get the occasional issue with point upgrades - raised errors when serializing 'nil', or attempting to serialize [], or objects that have their own to_json/as_json method.In the end I came to the same conclusion - I love Ruby, but I also hate some of the hoops you have to jump through because it is so malleable." - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Brilliant - thanks Jamie. All of those are valid, so I'll set about fixing them. The compact view was a request from @mikesten for the AV debate. He just wanted to see the main arguments without counter arguments, and it does help make sense of long pages like that. Agreed on hiding it. Might also have a "and hide others" option when clicking on an argument. Editable yes/no text is already in the database, just not exposed to the user yet. Pretty easy to add now that I have edit forms in place. Thanks!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Brilliant - thanks Jamie. All of those are valid, so I'll set about fixing them. The compact view was a request from @mikesten for the AV debate. He just wanted to see the main arguments without counter arguments, and it does help make sense of long pages like that. Agreed on hiding it. Might also have a "and hide others" option when clicking on an argument. Editable yes/no text is already in the database, just not exposed to the user yet. Pretty easy to add now that I have edit forms in place. Thanks!" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Thanks Jamie - glad you like it. Up to you - I'm going to tackle a few UI bugs this evening (Buttons with the wrong URLs), overlapping arguments in short list views, unclickable buttons. Here is fine, or a gist, not sure really - suggestions?" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Thanks Jamie - glad you like it. Up to you - I'm going to tackle a few UI bugs this evening (Buttons with the wrong URLs), overlapping arguments in short list views, unclickable buttons. Here is fine, or a gist, not sure really - suggestions?" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"haha! I think I'm cursed to get ideas on days when I am supposed to be being 'dad'... ah well they'll thank me one day :-)" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"haha! I think I'm cursed to get ideas on days when I am supposed to be being 'dad'... ah well they'll thank me one day :-)" - Stef Lewandowsdki

"Thanks for this great series of blogs on using backbone.js. I'm building a spare time project using your Backbone, Coffeescript, JQuery Mobile approach. Thanks for your example app - it was invaluable. Let's say I want my mobile app to work offline, but to use the CouchDB backend when it is available. What I'd like is to pull data from local storage (or a local sqlite instance) and if there is an internet connection to refresh models using the Couch backend. So far I've not seen anyone using a local cache approach to storing http data - there's a LocalStore backend on github and the CouchDB backend you're using here too. Ever thought of combining the two?" - Stef Lewandowsdki