8 Feb
2013

Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: :

Earlier this week, I read this great article titled ?Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript? by Addy Osmani. This is a highly recommended read for anyone involved in writing JavaScript code. The topics that I found to be particularly interesting were the apparent fact that it?s better to avoid the delete keyword and cached functions in the […]

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1 Feb
2013

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express Routing Revisited

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Last year I wrote this blog post where I described a couple of ways on how to tackle routing with Express. In the mean while I moved on from the ?Plain Old School? approach to an approach where I replaced underscore.js with node-require-directory. Setting up node-require-directory is quite easy. In the routes folder, we just […]

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30 Nov
2012

Visual Studio Light Edition

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :39 Comments on Visual Studio Light Edition

I noticed this blog post from Scott Hanselman the other day about Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This post included a screenshot from the installation program. Something that really took me by the throat is this: Notice that the Express edition of Visual Studio seems to require no less than 4.15 GB of […]

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24 Jul
2012

Blitz

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The last couple of weeks I?ve been playing with a load testing tool called Blitz. You can create a free account which provides you the ability to ?rush? your web application with 250 concurrent users (or less) for 1 minute. And of course, you can increase both the number of concurrent users as well as […]

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17 Jul
2012

Outliers – The Story of Success

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A couple of weeks ago, I digested the audio version of Outliers – The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, the author tells the story of a couple well-known and also lesser-known individuals that are considered to be successful. But what’s particularly interesting about this book, is the analysis the author […]

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12 Jun
2012

My Developers Life – The Importance of Physical Exercise

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: :13 Comments on My Developers Life – The Importance of Physical Exercise

In the previous blog post, I discussed the importance of getting enough sleep every single night. For this post I want to emphasize the importance of physical exercise. I’m writing these words after having run approximately 15 kilometers. This I do three times a week, every week, throughout the whole year with only a few […]

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