This week Ben and “The Original Chris” go to the Google Dart Hackathon! #DartHack
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This week Ben and “The Original Chris” go to the Google Dart Hackathon! #DartHack
Thanks for coming to the hackathon! One clarification: only the dart-to-javascript compiler is written in Dart. The Dart VM is written in C.
Awesome! Thanks for the clarification here. Can you tell me more about the DartVM bootstrapping process?
Hey guys! Another good podcast – started a bit slow but after you noticed the girls things woke up. Or maybe that was because of Ben’s driving…
Moon breakers is another good example of a game played in a (chrome) browser, full 3d space combat. Its impressive what web browsers are capable of these days.
I would not have expected you to use flat file DB for your system Ben – but then I deal more with systems that have already been developed and released. I guess it allows you to prototype and change really quickly which helps with a new start-up full of fresh ideas. If you later want to normalize your database and apply indexes etc you will have a lot of exceptions to work through though – especially given how much you are logging!
Keep the podcasts coming, they make my drive to/from work pass a lot more quickly and its interesting to hear about the challenges you face and the tools & techniques you use to solve them. It sounds like Dart is something to keep an eye on!
Cheers,
Neal.
Hey Neal,
Thanks for the comments. I didn’t really cover CouchDB much in the podcast, but Couch lets you define map reduce views. These views can be thought of as indexes into your data. You can choose a key/value for some (or all) rows in the database, and then later it’s really fast to retrieve these key/values. You can also sort and limit the values of they key when you request the data.
Maybe I’ll get the guys together and do a full CouchDB review. I also want to make a blog post about how we are using it to log all network traffic. Stay tuned!