When I was reading Just for Fun, I came across this paragraph in the book where Linus Torvalds stated that he never missed a good night?s sleep during the early days when he was hacking together the first version of the Linux kernel. In fact, he clearly stated in his book that he doesn?t allow […]
Read MoreRecently I added Twitter authentication to TrackMyRun using a library called Passport. I was pretty impressed how smooth this all went as I completely neglected all security concerns from the get go, which is definitely not recommended by the way. For this post I?ll walk you through the process of setting up Passport for Express […]
Read MoreIn the previous post I wrote about my personal routing flavor for Express. For this post, I want to briefly discuss how to set up error handling using Express. In order to get up and going very quickly, we only need to add the errorHandler middleware provided by Connect. application.use(express.errorHandler({ showStack: true, dumpExceptions: true })); […]
Read MoreA few of weeks ago, I ran into this awesome article ?Understanding process.nextTick()? on the How To Node blog. In this article, the ever friendly Kishore Nallan shows a couple of common use cases for the process.nextTick() function of the core Node.js library. You should read this blog post three times, at the very least. […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, I ran across this incredibly helpful utility called npm-police. It analyzes all packages that are specified in a package.json file and reports which packages need to be updated. It also leaves you with a couple of suggestions on how to improve the content of the analyzed package.json file. Another great tool in […]
Read MoreA while ago, my colleague Wouter recommended this book titled Just for Fun – The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary written by Linus Torvalds. The author needs no further introduction as he’s well known as the initiator of the Linux kernel and the most excellent Git revision control system. I immediately ordered myself a copy […]
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago I finished reading The Unix Programming Environment, written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. The main reason that I picked up this classic book was to learn more about the fundamentals of Unix. I must say that this book is an excellent guide to start learning more about this […]
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago I learned about a very neat feature of CouchDB called view collations. Basically, view collations enables us to make joins between documents. Let?s look at a simple example here. Suppose we have a customer-order model where a customer can have one or more orders. The data of the documents for […]
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