I’ve been working on a small pet project for a couple of weeks now, which I named TrackMyRun. I’m quite fanatic when it comes to running, doing about 130 runs a year. Currently I’m keeping track of all these runs in a simple spreadsheet, but off course, that’s certainly not “the geek way”. Hence the […]
Read MoreIn the previous post I provided a short introduction to Express, a web development framework built on top of connect that is heavily inspired by Sinatra. For this post we?ll dive into a couple of styles for dealing with routes in Express. Express simply uses HTTP verbs for its routing API. // Index app.get(‘/runs’, function(request, […]
Read MoreYep, that time of the year again. Shiny new calendars and the accompanying festivities are upon us again. I can?t get rid of the feeling that every year passes by a lot faster than the year before. This year was definitely not an exception in that regard and I?m afraid that things are not going […]
Read More< The list of previous installments can be found here. > There are several frameworks out there for building web applications with Node.js, one being more successful than the other. Express is probably the most popular and well known web development framework for Node.js. It?s heavily inspired by Sinatra and built on top of connect, […]
Read More< The list of previous installments can be found here. > I just wanted to share a very neat feature of npm that makes life quite a lot easier when developing libraries for Node.js. Suppose that we?re building our very own ORM library for Node.js (we all build an ORM at some point in our […]
Read More< The list of previous installments can be found here. > In a previous blog post, I already wrote about BDD style unit tests for testing Node.js modules using Jasmine. I really like the conciseness, simplicity and readability of specification style unit tests using Jasmine. But when we pour CoffeeScript into the mix, then the […]
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I ran into this website from Eric S. Raymond, the author of the book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. There’s a recording of a great presentation that anyone involved with software development, and especially open-source, should listen to. I highly recommended that you download this recording and at the very […]
Read MoreIn a couple of weeks, I’ll be doing an introductory presentation on Node.js at the Agile.NET 2011 conference. While having a look at the other sessions and speakers, I’m quite honored to be able to join these smart bunch of craftsmen. In fact, I’m still amazed that the organizers accepted my proposal. But hey, they’ll […]
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