codefellows/sea-c16-javascript

Code repository for the Foundation 2 Night Course

Ivan Storck

@ivanoats

yeah but also if you’re on a budget the 11” base mba is totally fine. esp. if you stash an external monitor upstairs. better to get a mac you can afford than deal with linux on the desktop (/me ducks as @toastynerd blows his top at me)

Mandi Grant

@MJGrant

+1 the mac recommendation, switching to a mac simplified a lot (like a LOT) of installation problems I encountered on my linux laptop and made it easier to find help from a community of people with near-identical machines

Joe Elsey

@joeelsey

Sounds good. I think I may have some options as well with refurbished macs. Didn't know I had the option of bringing a second monitor... That could be sweet. Thanks everyone.

Mandi Grant

@MJGrant

My Mac is a refurb from apple.com, it's a 2012 model and saved me several hundred dollars. I can't tell the difference, it came packaged as if it were new.

John Fahey

@faheydesign

@joeelsey Yeah my macbook is two years old. It works fine for the accelerator. I do recommend getting the maximum of ram. Since you can’t upgrade it later.

Stephanie Lingwood

@stephanielingwood

Okay, I'll touch off the Linux vs. Mac debate. Will I be at a disadvantage if I'm on Linux for the October accelerator? If not, what distribution would you recommend? (Recently got a Dell with a Core i7 and 8gb ram, and the Mac prices are a lot to stomach.)

Ivan Storck

@ivanoats

I really like ElementaryOS, it has a nice UI http://elementaryos.org/

although Ubuntu 14 is a bit more up to date

Ivan Storck

@ivanoats

try this out for BFS http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/BFS.html

whoops wrong room

Joaquin Guardado

@macikokoro

My macbook is six years old and is working great. I got it for $300 on ebay. I did upgrade to 4gigs of ram and a solid state hard drive for an extra $150.

I can't believe this room still alive.

One thing I have to point out: get air parrot to be able to airdisplay for presentations if your mac is too old.

Ivan Storck

@ivanoats

@stephanielingwood you won’t be at a disadvantage, unless you install Linux and don’t familiarize yourself with it first (if you are switching from windows)

Stephanie Lingwood

@stephanielingwood

@ivanoats Thanks. I'm not familiar with Mac or Linux at this point, but that's what the next few weeks are for. I'll go check out ElementaryOS and Ubuntu 14.

Joaquin Guardado

@macikokoro

In my own experience Mac OS is a lot easier to get familiar with

CTownsdin

@CTownsdin

Hey I just found Emmet, it's super cool, check it out at these links...
Type your HTML super fast with Emmet for sublime text, video demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfrqtMmmb0k
Where to get it:
https://github.com/sergeche/emmet-sublime
Other cool sublime tricks:
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/essential-sublime-text-2-plugins-and-extensions--net-24173

http://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/

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Nicholas Weber

@NEWeber

@hlpetway Thanks!

Tyler Morgan

@toastynerd

@stephanielingwood I would recommend Mint or Fedora, Mint is based on the latest version Ubuntu but without the bullshit.

You might also want to look at Manjaro, it's an easy version of Arch which is the main distro I use but take my advice with a big grain of salt. I'm a snob when it comes to linux.

CTownsdin

@CTownsdin

Any parking tips? What's the cheapest option?

Is there a free parking lot within biking distance?

I'm thinking of biking down from Gas works maybe...

Joe Elsey

@joeelsey

So I installed brew and I installed node, but I didn't install node with brew so they aren't linked. Is it worthwhile to uninstall node and then reinstall node with brew?

fyi: Tried linking brew to node and brew said I should either uninstall or overwrite

CTownsdin

@CTownsdin

node install is super easy I think... maybe it's worth it?

Joe Elsey

@joeelsey

I messed it up I think. Brew won't link with node because I installed node through npm first. I think I'm going to have to completely uninstall npm and node. Then reinstall with brew. Hopefully there won't be an issue beyond that.

Joe Elsey

@joeelsey

Just talking out loud here, but maybe someone will run into the same issue. I wasn't able to uninstall node or npm. Brew couldn't link because it couldn't overwrite certain files. The issue was in the folder permissions. I changed the conflicting folders from read only to read&write. Brew was able to link and brew doctor says I'm ready to brew.

John Fahey

@faheydesign

@CTownsdin parking is cheaper over by Daniel's Broilerhouse if you don’t mind a little walking.

$12

Joaquin Guardado

@macikokoro

Play It Again Sports & Cycle $8.00

10 min walk

CTownsdin

@CTownsdin

This website has lots of good JS info.
http://javascriptissexy.com/

Anybody have a learning project suggestion they would like to share? Are you doing something between now and the JS Dev accelerator?

Maybe something like TODO List Backbone or Angular ?

Joe Elsey

@joeelsey

I've been going through the code school modules to prep for the October accelerator. I've also been trying to build a javascript battleship game. I've built a grid using canvas through a function, but now I'm trying to turn that function into an object, so I can manipulate it better. Also considering creating a simple invoicing app to mimic what I do manually when I create invoices for freelance work. Something that works with google docs would be really cool.

Canvas is easy to break so its been tricky.

CTownsdin

@CTownsdin

@macikokoro, @faheydesign Thanks for the parking tips! The previous best I found were $15 and up. Thanks

djlabowski

@djlabowski

Hey all - My company has developed an enterprise level social media contest platform that we're pivoting to be more be more consumer facing. We're having an informational meeting this Thursday from 6:30 to 8pm for any who are interested in using their js skillz to help launch the next iteration of the platform. email me at jlabaw@bonsaimediagroup.com if you'd like to come learn more about it. Hope you're all doing well.

Joaquin Guardado

@macikokoro

I have a great suggestion for free parking but it is about a mile walk or 15 min. Send me a private message if interested. :)

CTownsdin

@CTownsdin

I think my mongodb install is not correct. Should I just wait until the first day and fix it there, or can we troubleshoot it now?

https://github.com/ivanoats/Full-Stack-JavaScript-Engineering/blob/master/setup/computer_setup.md

start mongo with: launchctl start homebrew.mxcl.mongodb, does not work, it says,

launchctl start error: No such process

brew info mongo says:

mongodb: stable 2.6.5 (bottled), devel 2.7.7, HEAD
https://www.mongodb.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/2.6.5 (17 files, 331M)
Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/mongodb.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: scons ✘
Optional: boost ✘, openssl ✘
==> Options
--with-boost
Compile using installed boost, not the version shipped with mongodb
--with-openssl
Build with openssl support
--devel
install development version 2.7.7
--HEAD
install HEAD version
==> Caveats
To have launchd start mongodb at login:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mongodb/.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load mongodb now:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist

says, no such file or directory, nothing to load

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