How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI

Re:How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using mu... by arturadib on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:23PM (#3604102)

DHH - if you guys keep working so hard on your custom platform one day you just might be able to reproduce the client-side JSON+JavaScript stack!

Keep up the hard work!

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Re:How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using mu... by dhh on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:30PM (#3604132)

Is that supposed to be a slam? I've been working on "custom" platforms for the better part of a decade.

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Re:How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using mu... by arturadib on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:37PM (#3604163)

Hence why you're trying at all costs to make it work with things it wasn't designed for?

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Re:How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using mu... by smokinn on Friday February 17, 2012 @01:25PM (#3604387)

I'm pretty sure he knows what it's designed for better than you given the fact he's the one who designed it.

Rails was literally lifted out of Basecamp into a standalone framework that works great for CRUD-style apps. You might personally prefer another approach or think this design failed but Rails was definitely designed for this use case.

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Re:How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using mu... by batista on Saturday February 18, 2012 @12:07AM (#3606001)

And you work for "Mozilla Labs"? As a volunteer, or do they go ahead and hire nerds with no manners and silly notions about entitlement and technology?

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