5 Jul
2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Don’t Block The Event Loop

< 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 […]

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28 Jun
2011

Book Review: Hands-on Node.js

Last 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 […]

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4 May
2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – WebSockets

Here are the links to the previous installments: Introduction Threads vs. Events Using Non-Standard Modules Debugging with node-inspector CommonJS and Creating Custom Modules Node Version Management with n Implementing Events BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should ?node_modules? Folders Pumping Data Between Streams Some Node.js Goodies The Towering Inferno Creating TCP Servers […]

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29 Apr
2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js–Creating TCP Servers

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Here are the links to the previous installments: Introduction Threads vs. Events Using Non-Standard Modules Debugging with node-inspector CommonJS and Creating Custom Modules Node Version Management with n Implementing Events BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should ?node_modules? Folders Pumping Data Between Streams Some Node.js Goodies The Towering Inferno Just a quick […]

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20 Apr
2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – The Towering Inferno

Here are the links to the previous installments: Introduction Threads vs. Events Using Non-Standard Modules Debugging with node-inspector CommonJS and Creating Custom Modules Node Version Management with n Implementing Events BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should ?node_modules? Folders Pumping Data Between Streams Some Node.js Goodies Because Node.js puts an event-based model […]

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12 Apr
2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Some Node.js Goodies

Here are the links to the previous installments: Introduction Threads vs. Events Using Non-Standard Modules Debugging with node-inspector CommonJS and Creating Custom Modules Node Version Management with n Implementing Events BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should ?node_modules? Folders   Pumping Data Between Streams For this post I want to quickly share […]

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