Rob Dodson talks internets

Back in April I was reading hacker news when I came across a blog posted titled ‘366 or How I Tricked Myself into Being Awesome’. It was written by a fellow named Chris Strom. It was written on blogspot. It was mostly unstyled.

Chris wrote every single day for 366 days and in so doing self-published three books on programming languages that he knew nothing about. His post was to champion that milestone. At the time I read it and thought, “I can totally do this,” meaning if I follow the steps that Chris has outlined I can potentially trick myself into becoming a blogger.

I want to keep playing with require.js and AMD modules today so I can really internalize the concepts around them. I’m going to go through the examples in the require documentation starting with loading regular scripts and then defining modules and loading those.

I have an upcoming project which uses Backbone and Node.js so I thought it would be good to blog about the topics (particularly Backbone) for a while to make sure I’m well up to speed.

Yesterday’s I refactored my specs and crawler to support ignoring selections. While I started parsing the metadata I quickly realized that certain bits were rather specific and needed to have custom parsing methods. Today I’m going to write some format objects to help with all that.

During my last post I realized that including my metadata in the blog post as only a ul meant that all the words were being scraped as part of the keyword frequency search. After thinking about it for a while I think I’m going to give the keyword search method an optional value which it can use to ignore or delete certain nodes.

This is going to be a bit of a lightning post but I wanted to quickly show off how to edit the PATH variable that Sublime text uses. I should warn you that that I am neither an expert in Python nor am I a very seasoned Sublime user. So having said that take all of this with a grain of salt and use at your own risk.