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goddamn, this is great. Why have I never heard of this before

I didnt look to closely, but it looks like you are creating a closure around the comments var for your event listener function. The problem is that you are doing this within a loop, meaning the comments var changes after each iteraion, probably ending up in something you hadnt intended

This is what I have set up. A Git repository on the server. I push all my code to the repo via ssh.

On the server there are Dev, Staging, and Production environments. Dev and Staging are bare checkouts from the git repo. I have deploy shell scripts that automate deploying to both (checking out from source control and running database migrations). The process should be that code is deployed to Dev, then Staging and finally to Production.

The Production environment is NOT a checkout from source control. It is an exact mirror of the Staging environment. And the deploy script to production does the following:

- tags source control with the new release number

- creates a tar.gz backup of the production directories

- does a database backup dump

- then uses rsync to copy files from the staging web directories to the production directories.

- lastly runs migration scripts on the prod database

yes, awesome book

I am currently just waiting for Safari's Web Inspector tool to reach par with Firebug before I switch to it over Firefox permanently

probably the same motivation that makes people jump out of planes

Steve Souders is the man who was the head of Yahoo's Exceptional Performance Team, which gave us these rules for speeding up your website: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ and also YSlow.

Cuzillion is something he seems to have made to give you a generalized example of what components affect your performance and by how much. So it allows you to test a fabricated example rather than a specific website.

Hey iamelgringo,

if you are still using the extension I would suggest re-installing once more. I made some fixes and added a few other things, as well as integrating the Firefox update manager. So if you re-install once more, Firefox will automatically find new updates to it for you from here on.

yeah, I thought it was a cool to find a football player on that list, and a Steeler as well

For finding those kinds of mistakes use jslint (http://jslint.com), though it doesnt catch calling a function with the wrong number of arguments (which may be what you intended anyways). If you download the source you can easily write a custom command in vim or emacs to run the current buffer through jslint.

I use VIM too. What exactly do you find is a pain?

here is another related link:

Web 2.0 And Why You Shouldn't Fake Reviews http://www.anyarticle.net/Article/Web-2-0-And-Why-You-Should...

I built a HackerNews firefox extension a few days ago to monitor new comments directed towards you or your submissions which you could port pretty easily to your site if you were interested. Or if you build an api to a users threads/comments (need just be an RSS feed) Id port it for you if you wanted it.

You can grab it here: http://wildstabmedia.com/hackernews and just save the xpi to disk and unzip to get at the source

nicely done. Hopefully you can build a nice community around this, in which case I will be a regular visitor.

Just curious, is it just you manually submitting links at this point?

I like it. Id like it more if you added a section for MMA. Regardless Ill keep my eye on it

I tend to agree with you, I mistook your original comment as disagreeing with a problem with "free services"

Google and Yahoo can do it because they can take advantage of their scale to monetize ads, as well as their diversity of products (profitable products can help pay for the unprofitable ones).

Which is exactly the author's point. He says that small companies are forced to swing for the fences in terms of user-base because a) that is all advertisers are interested in and b) the competitors (such as Yahoo! and Google) offer free alternatives.

I dont think it reasonable to set Yahoo or Google as the measuring stick of success as those companies are clearly way out ahead of anyone

Traversing the entire DOM on page load and rewriting all links for large pages would also slow down the page though.

Also rewriting links seems too intrusive for my tastes and means I cant "Copy link location" which I frequently do. I like the idea, but I personally would have just used a single "click" event handler on the entire page using the capturing phase and hijack links to redirect through your site first, rather than doing a rewrite for every link in the dom

It was 6% Jan. 2007 http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

The content of that article is part of the same author's book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" (http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_power_of_persuas...) which is one of the most interesting books I have ever read.

Even though it is not "new" I posted it because I wanted to ask the question of what are some of the sites out there that you have found employing those techniques to sell their product online.

a minor bug was already found and fixed for anyone who installed it, you should install again

I set that page up to use the mozilla installTrigger method, so clicking the link should activate the firefox install manager. Did that not work for you?

view source on http://mootools.net/ and you are treated to some artwork

well hopefully others can add some niceties to it

A simple api would be nice.

An api to a user's comments or submitted threads would be handy. The output could simply be an RSS feed to make it serve two purposes, but JSON output would be especially nice.

I switched to vim for a few reasons:

- I didn't want to get trapped into being comfortable with some editor that I would later not have access to. vim will always be there on any unix box

- there are no showstoppers for vim. Every other editor is great because it has x and y, but the lack of z is annoying. with vim, you can configure it to do almost anything with macros in your .vimrc

- it was slow to get going at first, but now I find using vim you can edit files much faster than using the mouse.

Well it is not too difficult to implement and it can speed up the registration flow for new users, which should always be a good thing.

OpenID is still getting better though. Yahoo! just became an OpenID provider which should help it catch on. And the ClickPass guys have built a great tool on top of it as well. So it looks right now like OpenID will survive and become better in time and perhaps achieve the goal of replacing the registration flow.

So while you say it is not the cure right now, I think that if you give it enough time it possibly could become one.

Here is a funny related quote from W.C. Fields:

"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."

OpenID currently only speeds up the registration process, not replace it