For the past few years, Google’s “I/O” developer conference has been THE conference for many developers to attend. It’s the place where you go to understand the latest and greatest tools and services coming out of Google… and where you can get to participate ahead of everyone else. Two years ago I/O attendees were the …
Feb 05
Nodester Continues to Improve Its Free Hosting For Node.js Apps
Feb 04
Video: How to use the new debugger client in Node.js
How does the new debugger work in the latest version of Node.js? my colleague Chris Matthieu recently pointed me to this screencast from Ryan Dahl. It looks cool…
New built-in V8 debugger client for Node.js from ry on Vimeo.
Feb 04
Using PostBin to Debug Webhooks
Recently I was trying to debug a python app that ran on Tropo.com Scripting and made a web call back to an application on another server. I wanted to see exactly what was being sent in the HTTP POST rom Tropo to the other server… and that’s when my colleague Mark Headd pointed …
Feb 03
Textastic – a great iPad code editor
Lately I have been looking for a code editor for the iPad … and am VERY impressed so far by Textastic. It is not a free app, but it has been well worth the money already. with it, i was able to very easily create the rough draft of an HTML email newsletter on …
Jan 29
Using LESS To Create Dynamic Stylesheets with Node.js
Have you been working with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and found yourself wishing you could make those sheets more, oh, dynamic? Like, for instance, including variables so that you could easily change colors or spacing throughout a stylesheet? There are a number of solutions out there to do this, but one I stumbled upon recently …
Jan 28
Meet the Author and Discuss UC Security – Next Week In Miami
As I mentioned on both the VOIPSA blog and my Disruptive Telephony site, I’ll be in Miami next week, February 2-4, speaking at the SIP Trunking Workshop and Cloud Communications Summit about Unified Communications security. If you are there at any of the events in Miami (my schedule is online),…
Jan 26
Test Out Python… Directly In Your Web Browser
Pretty cool little site to test out python directly inside your web browser (found via Hacker News):
http://syntensity.com/static/python.html
You just type in some python code and press the “Execute” button. Now, sure, it doesn’t have support for much outside the very core language… and you could get all of that by simply flipping …
Jan 25
Node.js, Doctor’s Offices and Fast Food Restaurants – Understanding Event-driven Programming
Are you struggling to understand “event-driven” programming? Are you having trouble wrapping your brain around “blocking” vs “non-blocking” I/O? Or are you just trying to understand what makes Node.js …
