The Blog: Javascript

Oh right, it’s 2012. Better late than never. In addition to the numerous contributions we make to existing open source projects, we also find the time to release libraries or projects that we extract from our applications. In 2011, those 22 projects were:

• leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/leaderboard - Leaderboards backed by Redis in Ruby – Primary author: David Czarnecki (@CzarneckiD)
• java-leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/java-leaderboard - Leaderboards backed by Redis in Java – Primary author: David Czarnecki (@CzarneckiD)
• scala-leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/scala-leaderboard – Leaderboards backed by Redis in Scala – Primary author: David Czarnecki (@CzarneckiD)
• php-leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/php-leaderboard – Leaderboards backed by Redis in PHP – Primary author: David Czarnecki (@CzarneckiD)
• python-leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/python-leaderboard - Leaderboards backed by Redis in Python – Primary author: Ola Mork (@olamork)
• clojure-leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/clojure-leaderboard – Leaderboards backed by Redis in Clojure – Primary author: Andrew Andkjar (@andkjar)
• erlang-leaderboard – https://github.com/agoragames/erlang-leaderboard – Leaderboards backed by Redis in Erlang – Primary author: Armando DiCianno (@greymouser)
• factory-worker – https://github.com/agoragames/factory-worker – Factories for NodeJS – Primary author: Andrew Nordman (@cadwallion)
• stache – https://github.com/agoragames/stache – A Rails 3.x (yes, even Rails 3.1) compatible Mustache Template Handler, with support for partials and a couple extra niceties to make sharing the raw templates with client-side javascript a little easier – Primary author: Matthew Wilson (@hypomodern)
• py-event – https://github.com/agoragames/pyevent – Python extension module for Niels Provos’ libevent – Primary author: Aaron Westendorf (@WashUffize)
• chai – https://github.com/agoragames/chai – Chai provides a very easy to use api for mocking/stubbing your python objects, patterned after the Mocha library for Ruby – Primary author: Aaron Westendorf (@WashUffize)
• activity_feed – https://github.com/agoragames/activity_feed – Activity feeds backed by Redis – Primary author: David Czarnecki (@CzarneckiD)
• improved_logging – https://github.com/agoragames/improved_logging – Adds improved logging capabilities to the ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger class – Primary author: David Czarnecki (@CzarneckiD)
• haigha – https://github.com/agoragames/haigha – AMQP libevent Python client – Primary author: Aaron Westendorf (@WashUffize)
• py-eventsocket – https://github.com/agoragames/py-eventsocket – Socket wrapper for libevent TCP applications – Primary author: Aaron Westendorf (@WashUffize)
• errship – https://github.com/agoragames/errship – Errship is a Rails 3.1 engine for rendering error pages inside your layout. It supports i18n, custom exceptions, and Airbrake (Hoptoad) error tracking – Primary author: Logan Koester (@logankoester)
• bettertabs – https://github.com/agoragames/bettertabs – Bettertabs is a simple Rails 3.1 Engine that includes a helper and a jquery plugin to render the needed markup and javascript for a section with tabs in a easy and declarative way – Primary author: Mario Izquierdo (@tothemario)
• seedlings – https://github.com/agoragames/seedlings – Make seeding data easier to deal with across multiple ORMs – Primary author: Matthew Wilson (@hypomodern)
• tassadar – https://github.com/agoragames/tassadar – Starcraft 2 replay parser written in pure Ruby – Primary author: Matt Pruitt (@guitsaru)
• mm_sortable_item – https://github.com/agoragames/mm_sortable_item – MongoMapper plugin that provides some basic acts-as-list style functionality on Mongo documents – Primary author: Matthew Wilson (@hypomodern)
• soonatra – https://github.com/agoragames/soonatra – Sinatra application to show a “Coming Soon” page and collect emails – Primary author: Logan Koester (@logankoester)
• javascripto – https://github.com/agoragames/javascripto – Javascripto helps organize and deliver client-side javascript – Primary author: Blake Taylor (@blakefrost)

We hope you’ve found or will find these libraries useful in your own projects.

I’m toying around with in-browser XMPP in order to publish information to our users in real time.  To start, I wanted to get the strophe.js echobot demo working.  I found the posted steps a bit lacking, and thus I present a more detailed procedure for how to get nginx+ejabberd+strophe.js up and running on Ubuntu 10.04 Workstation.  When we’re finished, we’ll test using Firefox and Empathy.

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The problem: I define hooks for callbacks in my javascript libraries. The functions for these hooks could be defined anywhere and tend to overwrite each other. When you want to write a callback you have to understand what the entire system is doing.

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