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This is a public log of the work I do each day.
Current projects: Noted, Charcoal/Ember-Boilerplate
- Refactored localStorage adapter for ember-data to be a little less... weird and slapdash, I guess. Still not quite satisfied with it. Also still haven't fixed the "updating parent associations causes view refresh" issue; may need to start delving into ember-data itself. Should ask around to make sure there's no alternatives first.
- Fixed less task in grunt-contrib to work for building multiple files into one (edge use case, since 99% of people would just use an @import directive instead of building two files into one, but doesn't hurt).
- Ember templates in Charcoal are now added into the Ember.TEMPLATES array via a generated templates.js file instead of being embedded in the page.
- Assets task became more of a general-purpose copy task, may see about adding to grunt-contrib.
- Updated docs for Charcoal to reflect changes.
- Working on refactoring the localStorage adapter Noted uses to be more efficient & readable.
- Removed less.js from the repo and instead started requiring my fork of grunt-contrib, a collection of common Grunt tasks.
- Added compression information to grunt-contrib's minCSS task, similar to how the gruntjs min task works.
- Updated Ember-Boilerplate's grunt.js: Added default minCSS task (from grunt-contrib); Less support in the watch and build tasks is now added/removed based on whether configuration for the Less task exists
- Wrote docs & a blog post for Charcoal
- Added a default minifcation task (for JS only) and a gitignore file to Ember-Boilerplate.
- Fixed and simplified the assets task in Charcoal.
- Researched more about potential module systems for Charcoal. RequireJS doesn't seem like a good fit for Ember, what with Ember using a global namespace for the app. There's workarounds, but they're a bit complex. Tom Dale makes a good case against AMD in general. Really, with the way Ember works, what's needed isn't modules, but just a system for specifying loading order, like Rails' Asset Pipeline.
- Cleaned up the LESS code in Noted in preparation for adding a full-screening ability.
- Updated my ember-data fork with the newest version of the localStorage adapter from Noted, since several people asked about it in IRC.
- My grunt-contrib pull request got accepted & merged in.
- Started to look into alternative templating systems for page templates in Ember-Boilerplate, because Handlebars on top of Handlebars doesn't exactly work. Too bad you can't set alternative open/closing tags in Handlebars.
- Created better error handling for Charcoal's LESS task. Since it's based off the same code that the grunt-contrib project's LESS task is, created a fork & pull request with the new code.
- Renamed Ember template tags in Charcoal.
emberTmpl->ember_templateandember_named_template. - Renamed the
app/templatesfolder in Ember Boilerplate toapp/pages. Keeps it from being mixed up withapp/ember/templatesand is a more specific name for what it is.