In my continuing saga of seeing metaphor in every conversation with my house painter, Danny, I bring you another tale that proves we software developers are not alone. In addition to painting the house, I asked Danny’s crew to build a set of stairs off on side of my front porch. This morning, Danny showed […]
Read MoreI recently received an email from Jose Samonte, a developer in the Philippines. Here is the text of that email: Please pardon me for my unsolicited email, but I believe that you are one of the best in the software community. My name is Joey Samonte, and I’m a C# programmer from the Philippines, but […]
Read MoreI am having my house painted this week. It really needs it, after 10 years. We waited too long as it is. I chose the painter based on a conversation with him in which I could see that he took pride in his work and would do a good job. I saw him paint a […]
Read More< The list of previous installments can be found here. > The basic premise of Node.js is that all I/O operations are expensive. That is why all I/O should be carried out asynchronously, at least according to the philosophy behind Node.js. What this basically boils down to is that we need to specify a callback […]
Read MoreAs I mentioned in the previous blog post, CoffeeScript is a neat little language that compiles down to JavaScript code. Its syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby and next to bringing a lot of nice language features to the table, it also requires less amount of code than writing the equivalent directly in JavaScript. For […]
Read MoreLast week, I finished reading Hands-on Node.js written by Pedro Teixeira. I very much enjoyed reading this concise introduction to Node.js, and although it’s targeted towards beginners, I certainly managed to pick up a few nuggets myself here and there. After the obligatory introduction, the first chapter opens up with an explanation of why Node.js […]
Read MoreListen to this episode [38:51] Mario Cardinal spends a lot of time thinking through the nuances of system architecture and agile software development. He joins us on the Pluralcast to talk about his ideas around agile architectures and tracing system architecture back into requirements. Mario is a Microsoft ALM MVP, host of the Visual Studio […]
Read MoreA quick heads up. In Nancy 0.6.0 we introduced a change that made the application scan, for all available views, and cache them upfront. While this is good for performance, because it reduces view loading time and limits I/O operations, it does pose a slight nuance then you are creating you view. Because of the […]
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