Most of the JavaScript frameworks I’ve seen suffered from over-configuration and exposing too much detail. Error reporting is usually obscure, there are too many ways to accomplish the same thing, and there are no clearly defined conventions. And then came Meteor, a “full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications.” It works right out of the box, provides a nice command line tool with readable output, and clearly establishes a “meteor way” of doing things. Read more

“Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.” – Lao Tzu Recently I encountered a small and funny problem that I’d like to share with you. Imagine there is a model Trivium (question: string) and a model TriviaAnswer (trivium:references, answer:string, is_correct:boolean). Essentially they represent a question with related answer options. There is also a word document containing data to be loaded. It looks something like this: Read more