I should have realized this, but using something newly written is a great way to get distracted by finding bugs in it. I spent most of my time fixing issues that cropped up in pipeln. On the plus side, it makes that project better. On the flip-side, I didn't really get that much done with Ember.js tonight. I did get a little done, but it felt like there was a fair amount of time getting my tmux session and VIM ctrlspace workspace(s) setup.

Most of the time was working on an Ember.js application and really getting everything ready to go to fully start learning the framework. During this process I fixed a couple issues with pipeln's javascript loading via requires. One issue was it wasn't processing a file that was included with a require. However, require_tree seemed to be working as expected. Looking at the code, it ended up being pretty obvious that the processing wasn't being called there, but it was being called from the require tree function.

Once that was fixed, things started loading, but the javascript was then breaking on the client side. Turns out, another thing I sort of arbitrarily decided when writing the initial implementation of the asset loader was to collect all require statements, then go though each processing as required, and finally prepending them to the file.This can pretty easily cause errors with undefined variables after it's loaded into the browser. My solution was to include the files processed from require/require_tree statements at the site they're declared at. This way, if the require is at the bottom of the file, it loads the file at the bottom.

I also played around a little with Bourbon, Neat, & Bitters in so far as to give up on them for now since the Sass processing isn't built into pipeln yet. I briefly looked at options for building them outside of that. Manually compiling the Sass also only yielded about 200 lines of CSS with the imports for the three libraries. As that seemed like a mistake, I decided to table that for now and go with Bootstrap.

Earlier today I spent some time with MSP430 Forth cleaning up some things and committing some code that's been hanging out uncommitted for several days now.