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When I said framework I meant standard library. The most important thing to learn is not the syntax of the language but the standard library. They know everything the language can do and will most likely use all of it's features somewhere.

Thanks for clearing it up, I think standard library is a better term :)

MUCH better term! :) I'd submit that learning a framework will actually do you a disservice as far as learning a new language goes.

Thank you. My blog is rather old and still runs on app engine. First time I ever hit the free quota.

Should be up again.

Yes. I believe such a book exists (or should at least) for every language as well.

Effective Java — http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Edition-Joshua-Bloch/dp...

POODR (Ruby) — http://www.poodr.com/

Javascript the good parts — http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...

There is of course also the gang of 4 language agnostic classic on design patterns http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje...

It's definitely a good way to get started with learning, but you have to be even more careful that you're not just copying patterns from one app to another.

I had this experience when I started working on Karma's Android app. I basically started out by copying the entire iOS architecture to Java. It helped me get started quickly without having to make too many hard decisions early on, but I did have to rewrite some things after I became more experienced and learned there was a better, more Android idiomatic, way of doing it.

The thing that helped me the most is that I became part of the community. Some of them explained to me why I was wrong and then taught me a better approach.

"you have to be even more careful that you're not just copying patterns from one app to another" Absolutely. I hope my post didn't convey the opposite. The way I see it is that the designers of the language know more than the (new) developers using it, so it pays to rewrite existing applications in the way in which the language designers intended.

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I've seen the math behind it and you are definitely correct.

Could you please enlighten me?

In the fluid mode, the text on the two panes need not be of the same height given the insertions and deletions. So when scrolling, the scroll speeds for the two panes would need to be different. Is this what is being talked about?

Cibs are indeed web optimized format. Thanks for the explanation.

Didn't know about this. I have thought about extending my example to run user defined commands on user defined files. Obviously someone beat me to it.

Thanks for the link.

Clarification: Not enstore.com itself, but the admin utility used to manage your store is built with Cappuccino.