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Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by ferrofluid on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:29PM (#3449123)
Sorry, I don't know what "Backbone" is. I see links to New Relic and Pivotal Labs, but no links to anything called "Backbone".

I guess this blog post was maybe not meant for purely technical people, but it would be nice to understand what "Backbone" is, and exactly why it would solve their problems.

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by jashkenas on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:35PM (#3449160)
Here's a link: http://backbonejs.org/

Perhaps more importantly, here are some examples of what sites are doing with it: http://backbonejs.org/#examples

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by acak on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @07:20PM (#3449824)
Not sure why you got down-voted.

It's entirely possible that you don't get the same search results on Google as I do if we're logged in because of what Google 'remembers' as our browsing habits and interests.

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by espeed on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @05:15PM (#3449342)
Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by InclinedPlane on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:35PM (#3449154)
Backbone.js
Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by Helianthus on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:34PM (#3449149)
I hate to be That Asshole, but https://www.google.com/search?q=backbone

The first link is to a javascript library widely known in the web development community.

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by ferrofluid on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:47PM (#3449223)
I actually did a google search for https://www.google.com/search?q=backbone+web

Which gave me the first hit of www.backbonemedia.com/

In fact, backbone.js is no where on the first page for that search.

That's amazing it comes up first for "backbone". I did actually find that link eventually, and try out the "example" todo list, but that gave me no information about how this would fix a garbage collection problem. Does anyone know how it fixed their GC problem?

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by scottschulthess on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @05:47PM (#3449499)
The article was confusing a bit confusing about the Garbage Collection so I'll try to explain.

1. Dispora is slow, why?

2. Requests take a long time on the server, why?

3. Most of the time is spent in ruby doing processing.

4. Why is ruby slow?

5. Ruby is slow because of the garbage collector.

6. How can we get around this ruby being slow problem?

7. Reduce calls to server side by writing replacing server side calls with javascript rendering of templates and whatnot.

Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by leoedin on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:56PM (#3449264)
It fixed their garbage collection problem by reducing the amount of server-side processing they had to do (and hence, reducing the amount of garbage that required collection). Rather than send completely rendered HTML to the browser, they're using javascript in the browser to turn the data coming from the server into the rendered page.
Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by Helianthus on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:53PM (#3449249)
Ha. Well, that's why I'm the asshole. ;)
Re:Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it... by wickedchicken on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @04:57AM (#3451091)
you would only be an asshole if you linked it like so: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backbone