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),…

Slides: Node.js, Event Loops and How To Stop Writing Spaghetti Code

As a comment to my recent post on understanding event-driven programming, Tom Hughes-Croucher left a pointer over to a presentation he gave last year about Node.js and event-driven programming. I enjoyed his style and would have liked to hear him give it in person… here it is embedded for anyone else looking to …

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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 …

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Node.js, Doctor’s Offices and Fast Food Restaurants – Understanding Event-driven Programming

The Frying Dutchman

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 different …

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Slides: Using Node.js in a production setting

Interesting set of slides around using Node.js in a production setting – and the choices these folks made around the technology stack they used:

How to use Node.js with IPv6

It turns out to be ridiculously simple. After my testing yesterday, I learned via a comment from Ryan Dahl, that:

all you do is have your Node.js app listen on the IPv6 address.

That’s it.

UPDATE 28 Jul 2014 – As a result of a Reddit thread I’ve seen traffic to …

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Testing Node.js With IPv6 – First Step, Does It Work?

Given all the writing I’ve been doing lately about IPv6 and about Node.js, it was only natural for me to try combining them. I pay for a VPS over at RapidXen and upon request they will provide you with an IPv6 address block (for free). So I’ve been using it as a …

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Want The Scoop on Node.js? Listen to Herding Code 102!

herdingcode.jpgWant to understand more about this Node.js thing I’ve been writing about here? Want to learn why people are raving about it? What the community is all about? What you can do with it?

If so, you can head on over and listen …

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NodeFu – Free Hosting of Your Node.JS Apps In The Cloud!

NodeFu.jpgHave you been experimenting with Node.JS (as I have) and wished you had a place to host your Node.js apps? If so, you may want to check out NodeFu.com, a new hosting service that just launched today.

Created by my friend and …

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Running (on a treadmill) with Node.js

What I didn’t say in my last post about the NodeTuts video tutorials was how I have been watching the episodes. Yes, indeed, I’ve been watching them while running or walking on our treadmil… this morning I ran 4 miles and went through two of the Node Tuts episodes (11 and 12):

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