This is the second time they've backed my js-git project. They were the largest backer in the original kickstarter. I asked them back then why they backed my project. The response was that they believe in open source software and like seeing cool things being written in JavaScript.
As far as I know, there are no Mozilla projects that benefit directly from js-git and they their goal is to promote open source JavaScript in general.
Yes, I will be making sure my code runs on FirefoxOS as well as ChromeOS, Internet Explorer 10+, iOS, Android, node.js, etc. (basically anything that has network access, a binary data type, and some form of storage).
This is a top notch effort. As someone who has recently started looking at JS MVC frameworks, I've found there are a lot of options and not a huge amount of documentation or tutorials.
When it comes to differentiating between frameworks, tutorials like this go a long way, and help the entire JS community. I look forward to other JS frameworks coming out with similar, and getting more opinionated about conventions.
This is certainly true, specially when you work at a company that really doesn't invest enough research time in the choosing of a new framework as they should. You need to see the key features and a bit of hands-on trial fast to be able to showcase them even faster.
Of course it's not an ideal method of picking new technology, but sometimes you can't really argue about it and have to go along.
i have to agree with that. It's really hard to keep up with all the JS frameworks and having tutorials like these definitely helps with the anxiety to delve into it. I wish there would be one for backbone, as it seems more popular
Thanks for noticing! We built badger.com a bit differently from most sites. Our backend is just a JSON api and the frontend uses this API and is implemented entirely in Javascript using an internal library we'll be releasing soon (code name: Hasher).
Bookmarklets are awesome except they involve more user interaction than should be needed. I feel like almost every time I could use a bookmarklet, a plugin would do more with just as much user initiative.
They also don't have a favicon (or I haven't seen one in FF4) without a user pre-visiting a destination page, so they look unpolished.
Bookmarklets are cross platform across practically any browser and work in mobile devices too. Can't say the same for plugins.
Plus it's easier for some developers to knock out a bookmarklet than a plugin, especially when you can do much of the logic server side, and potentially hook into existing code there.
That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =)
Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and checks it's availability.
I created my site to help with the brainstorming of site names to see what's available, but I can see how domai.nr would be used in a very similar way.
I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.
Enter a few words in the name field to try it out!
e.g. apple, microsoft, ycombinator, purplemonkeydishwasher
Look into packer for building out Production images, and Chef/Puppet/Ansible for additional configuration ontop those images.