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The Javascript Bug is Back

Since working on a recent JS App for a project, I’ve caught the JS Pattern and framework bug again!

Enter Backbone.js.

Just diving into the docs for this now, but so far I am very impressed. It’s been a long while since I’ve really explored some new JS tech, so Backbone.js has been a welcome change of pace.

I see this library and Phantom JS used together to make some seriously rowdy music.

Icenium Cloud For Mobile App Development Seeks To Replace Visual Studio and Eclipse | TechCrunch

Icenium Cloud For Mobile App Development Seeks To Replace Visual Studio and Eclipse | TechCrunch.

Definitely seems cool, but jesus, what happens when the cloud infrastructure breaks? Yesterday’s Amazon Web Services Outage should give many developers pause to relying solely and exclusively to the cloud as a magic bullet (if nothing else, it should be an example of the inherent flaws in single zone deployment!). In this scenario, when the cloud breaks – you can’t even develop locally! YIKES!! That’s a big trade off.

Plus, if i’m not mistaken, with eclipse there are plenty of ways to affect a develop-once-deploy-many facility by way of plugins.

My big problem with IDE’s in general is their interface – it really offers a very clunky out of date workflow. Updating the interface therefore would improve the mobile development lifecycle while not being so brittle by encumbering development with the cloud-scape.

Physicists say there may be a way to prove that we live in a computer simulation

Physicists say there may be a way to prove that we live in a computer simulation.

My favorite take-away from the article is that confirmation of the requisite cosmological signature would be:

[T]he kind of reveal the physicists are looking for — an indication that there is indeed a man hiding behind the curtain.

Or in other words – We Live in Oz.