| { | |
| "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-03/schema#", | |
| "type": [ | |
| { | |
| "type": "number", | |
| "minimum": 0, | |
| "exclusiveMinimum": true | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "type": "string", |
| // Disable bold. | |
| term_.prefs_.set('enable-bold', false) | |
| // Use this for Solarized Dark | |
| term_.prefs_.set('background-color', "#002b36"); | |
| term_.prefs_.set('foreground-color', "#839496"); | |
| term_.prefs_.set('color-palette-overrides', [ | |
| '#073642', | |
| '#dc322f', |
| module.exports = function(grunt) { | |
| 'use strict'; | |
| // Project configuration. | |
| grunt.initConfig({ | |
| meta : { | |
| // Specify where our test files are. Once we get all the tests switched over we can use 'test/js/**/*.spec.js' to automatically load all tests. | |
| specs : ['test/js/src/**/*.spec.js'], | |
| bin : { | |
| coverage: 'js/bin/coverage' |
This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.
| Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012) | |
| ---------------------------------- | |
| L1 cache reference 0.5 ns | |
| Branch mispredict 5 ns | |
| L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache | |
| Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns | |
| Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache | |
| Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us | |
| Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us | |
| Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD |
| var parser = document.createElement('a'); | |
| parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash"; | |
| parser.protocol; // => "http:" | |
| parser.hostname; // => "example.com" | |
| parser.port; // => "3000" | |
| parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/" | |
| parser.search; // => "?search=test" | |
| parser.hash; // => "#hash" | |
| parser.host; // => "example.com:3000" |
| $.when( | |
| sushi_roll(), | |
| dispatch() | |
| ).done(function() { | |
| console.log('accepted:', arguments[0], arguments[1]); | |
| }); | |
| var n = 0; | |
| function dispatch() { | |
| return $.Deferred(function(dispached) { |
