Javascript: Enhancing peer review through GitHub
You love GitHub. Of course you do. You love peer review. You especially love sending a pull request back asking for nits to be picked. So when your submitter claims to have addressed your concerns, how do you check? You could walk the commits. You could diff the entire pull request against master. If only you could diff the HEAD of the pull request against the original state of the pull request, letting you check just the new set of commits…
With github-differ you can!
Simply add this tiny extension[1] to your Chrome, and it will decorate each commit in GitHub’s Commits tab. Pick any two commits, and the extension will redirect you to a page showing the comparison of those two commits! Job done!
[1]The JavaScript involved is so small that it should be trivial to port this to FireFox’s GreaseMonkey framework.
Javascript: Live updates to Meteor from Postgres
I’ve been playing around with Meteor recently for an internal LShift project in which I wanted the browser to have a read-only live view onto some timetracking data from TimeTracker as it changes. When a developer records time spent on a particular task, a row is inserted into a Postgres database. Simples.
One of Meteor’s selling points is its transparent client-server data
synchronisation through its powerful Collections API, which is backed by
MongoDB on the server side. This poses a potential challenge for us: how can we leverage the reactive Collections of Meteor yet feed it with Postgres data?
Well, I did manage to wrestle my fork of Bevan Hunt’s (a Meteor contributor!) excellent Meteor Angular Leaderboard demo into live page update as database insertions occur on Postgres. You could extend this to deal with database updates and deletions as well, an exercise left for the willing.
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