premasagar/mishmash

An assortment of little JavaScript functions, snippets and jQuery plugins. Stuff that doesn't warrant its own repository, but is too big or important for a gist.

mishmash's Issues

console: employ JSON.stringify where available, rather than multiple newlines

Next steps for github starred

@premasagar if you have the time could you have a look at the github starred imlementation here in mishmash? https://github.com/premasagar/mishmash/tree/master/githubstarred

Findings
On the Github web interface timeline (http://github.com) it notes that individuals have starred a repo. However in the api timeline (https://api.github.com/users/premasagar/events/public) these events are still noted as WatchEvent.

I looked at the starred endpoint (https://api.github.com/users/premasagar/starred) and its not in chronological order.

I am looking for suggestions on what can be done next. I suspect a problematic area is if the public event api endpoint has no WatchEvents then it would yield no results. Using the Link headers one could navigate through the pages to find the rest. Depending on the use case one could also just look at the users starred endpoint if chronological order does not matter.

throttle: implement 'backoff' and 'kill'

backoff: increase throttle period by rate r with each subsequent call (e.g. for repeated attempts to contact a server, or to poll for DOM changes)

kill: once a limit of attempts is reached, change throttle period to -1, which will result in all further calls to the function being rejected (a period of 0 === accept all calls)