kedo posted:

IMO the "right" way to do that would be through the CMS. If it were WordPress (for example), I'd probably have that chunk of content automagically generated from an excerpt from the most recent post in whatever category. No clue if RedDot is capable of something like that. Generally speaking I find it's better to insert content into a page server-side than it is client-side, especially if it's important content.

But if that's not a possibility then your solution is probably fine.

Oh My Science posted:

What is the general consensus on non-compete clauses in contracts? I would prefer not signing one but I'm not sure what arguments to use aside from "I don't want to limit my career growth" which sounds an awful lot like "I will quit as soon as I get a better offer".

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

Generally unenforceable depending on a bunch of stuff, talk to a lawyer, this is important.

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

Generally unenforceable

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

talk to a lawyer, this is important.

quote:

9.1. The Employee covenants and agrees that:

9.1.1. During the Term of employment, the Employee shall devote his or her full working

9.1.2. During the Term and for a period of one (1) year following the Employee’s

time, attention and efforts to xxxx and in its related affairs as directed by xxxx;

termination the Employee shall not compete in any way with xxxx in any

geographical region in which xxxx conducts or may in the future conduct business,

directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner, shareholder or agent, officer,

director, employee, independent contractor, consultant or otherwise, unless acting in

accordance with xxxx’ prior written consent.

9.1.3. The Employee shall not be prohibited from web-development or use of web-
development technologies and for the purposes of Article 9.1.2, “competition” shall

9.1.4. The Employee acknowledges and agrees that the time frames for which the

be defined as conducting business, directly or indirectly, whether as owner, partner,

shareholder or agent, officer, director, employee, independent contractor, consultant

or otherwise with a person (whether corporate or individual) which is in the business

of or involved in development or maintenance of a web-based platform which allows

real-time editing with multiple users having the ability to video conference.

aforesaid covenant shall apply have been considered by the Employee who has

taken independent legal advice with respect thereto and the restraint and restriction

of and on the future activities of the Employee are reasonable in the circumstances.

{Client Files/27451/1/E1494565.DOC }

9.1.5. The parties agree that if the time frames set out in this Article are found to be

unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the time frames will be amended

to the time frames as established by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Oh My Science posted:

For anyone interested in what the amended version looks like.

V No. I was simply showing people what it looks like since we were discussing it. If it eases your mind I have already sent it for review.

Oh My Science posted:

Oh My Science posted:

I'm really torn. On one hand the job has the potential to be very interesting, but like any startup it could disappear at any time. Even if it beats the odds and does succeed I could spend years (not likely these days) learning a specific set of tech and be barred from finding work on a similar product / environment which would now be my bread and butter.

I technically don't need the job and could turn it down, it just sucks that this wasn't part of the initial discussion. Makes me feel like the bad guy for trying to protect my own right to work.

Oh My Science posted:

Just to follow up on our earlier conversation I actually spoke with a lawyer.

He suggested two things:

1. If I were terminated the non-compete should be void.
2. Non-competes are typically paired with 'consideration' clauses entitling me to x months of salary (usually the term of the contract) + severance should I leave.

They did not like those two things. He told me his lawyer would laugh at #2 and that #1 was out of the question.

I'm really torn. On one hand the job has the potential to be very interesting, but like any startup it could disappear at any time. Even if it beats the odds and does succeed I could spend years (not likely these days) learning a specific set of tech and be barred from finding work on a similar product / environment which would now be my bread and butter.

I technically don't need the job and could turn it down, it just sucks that this wasn't part of the initial discussion. Makes me feel like the bad guy for trying to protect my own right to work.

Munkeymon posted:

Just want to point out that there is a thread with a supposedly real lawyer currently on page two of the COC list: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3611767 He might be a little more helpful.

Munkeymon posted:

Just want to point out that there is a thread with a supposedly real lawyer currently on page two of the COC list: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3611767 He might be a little more helpful.

Harik posted:

After how neat the data modeling was, and how nicely it works in the admin view automatically, they smack you with a template language that arc-welds logic to presentation. That's basically PHP from 20 years ago. Is this really the best that we can do in 2014?

Yes, django is better than that. It's just an awful piece of code to showcase as "how to make a django site", and more intros should focus on the best-practices that the framework supports, not "hello world". Now to find some examples of how to do it "right".

quote:

This exercise is in search of a framework that can show a realtime view of a database limited by an ACL for the user logged in - and lets me just take a designers HTML and auto-generate the backend JSON and frontend javascript to update the correct DOM node. Obviously all that together may be too much to ask, but is there anything that accomplishes big chunks of that?

In terms of types of things I need to do, consider a weather station aggregation website. Collection of data from dozens of different users who each can change some information for stations they control. Groups of stations by location and a live-view of data coming in.

Munkeymon posted:

Maybe you want Meteor? Hope you like Mongo(loid)DB.

Misogynist posted:

Is this the new MiKKKro$haft, or what?

Harik posted:

I was playing with a data-driven site in django and nearly barfed at the tutorial:

HTML code:

<ul>
{% for choice in poll.choice_set.all %}
        <li>{{ choice.choice_text }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

After how neat the data modeling was, and how nicely it works in the admin view automatically, they smack you with a template language that arc-welds logic to presentation. That's basically PHP from 20 years ago. Is this really the best that we can do in 2014?

fletcher posted:

I don't get it, what's wrong with that snippet? Where's the logic?

ManoliIsFat posted:

Some people hate absolutely any logic beyond tag replacements (for loops and if elses are logic). "Thin Controllers, Fat Models, Dumb Views"

Harik posted:

I was playing with a data-driven site in django and nearly barfed at the tutorial:

HTML code:

<ul>
{% for choice in poll.choice_set.all %}
        <li>{{ choice.choice_text }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

After how neat the data modeling was, and how nicely it works in the admin view automatically, they smack you with a template language that arc-welds logic to presentation. That's basically PHP from 20 years ago. Is this really the best that we can do in 2014?

Thermopyle posted:

That's not logic.

Doc Hawkins posted:

Even worse, it's a law of Demeter violation!

Thermopyle posted:

That's not logic.

Harik posted:

I'd argue with that, since they have {% ifequals %} tags as well.

Suspicious Dish posted:

code:

{% if user.admin %}
<a href="/admin">go to admin panel</a>
{% endif %}

Oh no, my view is not pure, it has logic! Let me try again!

code:

if user.admin:
    user_admin_link = "<a href=\"/admin\">go to admin panel</a>"
else:
    user_admin_link = ""

code:

{{ user_admin_link }}

Much better

fuf posted:

3) Bootstrap etc advocate a "mobile first" approach where you default to a one-column mobile layout and then use media queries to adjust for wider screens. But IE8 doesn't support media queries. So do you a) write a whole separate stylesheet for IE8? b) use a polyfill to get media queries working in IE8, or c) forget "mobile first" and make your default layout the one that IE8 users will see?
(I couldn't get (b) to work, so I did (a). If I was starting from scratch I think I would do (c))