Retrospective: Week Twelve

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In an ongoing effort to make this chain as valuable as possible to myself (and possibly others), I perform a weekly retrospective of how the past week went (notes from last week). I do this on Tuesdays to avoid conflicts with B'more on Rails, which usually holds events then.

WHAT WENT WELL

• Fab.js—I did nothing but explore this node.js-based framework this week.
  • Figured out how to use fab.map.
  • Got fab.filter working.
  • It is really exciting learning something so very new—challenging at times (see below)—but definitely worth it.

OBSTACLES / THINGS THAT WENT NOT SO WELL

• Fab.js is a very new framework. This is the first time that I worked through something so new during my chain. At times, it was very rough—to the point that I worried that I would have nothing to report for a link or two in my chain.
• Being a new framework, fab.js is also undergoing significant rework as I work through it.
• I still do not know how to proxy requests to URLs based on query parameters or path info. I am not even sure it is possible without fab.nodejs.http supplying a listener.

WHAT I'LL TRY NEXT WEEK

• I don't thing I'm quite done with fab.js. As rough as it was at times, I find this little framework absolutely fascinating.
• I do need to get back to stated purpose of this chain, but I think I may eschew CouchDB next week and try some pure fab.js code.

Day #86