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It's Okay to Use Frameworks

It's Okay to Use Frameworks

I recently sat in on a conversation that rubbed me the wrong way. Ultimately the group ended up going with the decision I agreed with but the conversation we had to get there should have been a whole lot shorter. The group was debating the finer points of using frameworks

"vpub" bash function that automatically increments your project's version number, pushes to git, and publishes to npm.

"vpub" bash function that automatically increments your project's version number, pushes to git, and publishes to npm.

Just paste this function into your .bash_profile. function vpub() { npm version $1; git push origin master; npm publish; } Then you'll be able to do vpub patch/minor/major and it will: Automatically increment the version number in package.json. Tag your latest commit with the new version number. Push

Simple JavaScript profiling timer script.

Simple JavaScript profiling timer script.

I had a need to write a small script that I could easily use to time bits of JavaScript code in order to profile it. Chrome's dev tools has lots of useful profiling tools but sometimes you just want some helpful code snippets. var timers = []; function startTimer(name) { for (var

Optimist Fork With Five Months of Updates Rolled In

Optimist Fork With Five Months of Updates Rolled In

Optimist [https://github.com/substack/node-optimist] is a popular node module used to turn an array of arguments into a JavaScript hash making it really easy to access supplied options from the command line. The author of optimist, Substack [https://github.com/substack], maintains over 300 modules on npm [http:

OS X Tip: Snagit

OS X Tip: Snagit

> Disclaimer: Other than being a consumer, I am not affiliated with any of the products I mention in this post. If you use OS X and have a need to create screenshots or screen recordings then I personally recommend Snagit [http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html] (works on Windows as

Getting Too Modular

Getting Too Modular

Over the last year or so I've fallen in love with node [http://nodejs.org] and even JavaScript as a language (the good parts, of course). I was very pleased to find that the node community embraces small modules (aka packages) that have one job and they do it well.

What are callbacks and promises?

What are callbacks and promises?

To explain promises we must first explain callbacks. A callback function is simply a function you pass into another function so that function can call it at a later time. This is commonly seen in asynchronous APIs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface]; the API call returns immediately

9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know

> NOTE: This is a blog post from 2006 by a now 34 year old programmer named Ayman Hourieh. I found links to his site for an article I wanted to read but his site is down and looks like it's been down for quite some time. I used The Wayback

Synchronize WebStorm Settings Across Multiple Machines Using Google Drive

When I started Node [http://nodejs.org/] development I went on a hunt for the perfect IDE. After some deliberation I settled on WebStorm [http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/] by JetBrains [http://www.jetbrains.com/]. I really wanted to get a cloud-based IDE working such as Cloud9 [http://c9.io]

Hosting Node.js Applications on Windows Server 2012, Complete with Git Deployment and Remote Debugging - Part 3

Windows Server 2012

Hosting Node.js Applications on Windows Server 2012, Complete with Git Deployment and Remote Debugging - Part 3

Quick Links * Part 1 - Setting up Virtual Machine [http://codetunnel.io/hosting-nodejs-applications-on-windows-server-2012-complete-with-git-deployment-and-remote-debugging-part-1] * Part 2 - Installing IIS, Git, Node.js, and IISNode [http://codetunnel.io/hosting-nodejs-applications-on-windows-server-2012-complete-with-git-deployment-and-remote-debugging-part-2] * Part 3 - Installing Kudu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately,

Hosting Node.js Applications on Windows Server 2012, Complete with Git Deployment and Remote Debugging - Part 2

Hosting Node.js Applications on Windows Server 2012, Complete with Git Deployment and Remote Debugging - Part 2

Quick Links * Part 1 - Setting up Virtual Machine [http://codetunnel.io/hosting-nodejs-applications-on-windows-server-2012-complete-with-git-deployment-and-remote-debugging-part-1] * Part 2 - Installing IIS, Git, Node.js, and IISNode * Part 3 - Installing Kudu [http://codetunnel.io/hosting-nodejs-applications-on-windows-server-2012-complete-with-git-deployment-and-remote-debugging-part-3] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the first pa

Hosting Node.js Applications on Windows Server 2012, Complete with Git Deployment and Remote Debugging - Part 1

Hosting Node.js Applications on Windows Server 2012, Complete with Git Deployment and Remote Debugging - Part 1

Quick Links * Part 1 - Setting up Virtual Machine * Part 2 - Installing IIS, Git, Node.js, and IISNode [http://codetunnel.io/hosting-nodejs-applications-on-windows-server-2012-complete-with-git-deployment-and-remote-debugging-part-2] * Part 3 - Installing Kudu [http://codetunnel.io/hosting-nodejs-applications-on-windows-server-2012-complete-with-git-deployment-and-remote-debugging-part-3] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [WS2012-Kudu] c

String Replacement is Natively Supported by console.log()

I recently found out that console.log() in JavaScript natively supports string replacement using %s as a placeholder and I wanted to share. console.log('My name is %s.', 'Alex'); // My name is Alex. In addition you can use %s as many times as you have arguments and it

JavaScript Partial Application with bind()

Sometimes the subtle ways other people use JavaScript puts a smile on my face. I'm getting started with the Mongoose driver [https://npmjs.org/package/mongoose] for MongoDB [http://www.mongodb.org/]; while I was reading the quick start guide [http://mongoosejs.com/docs/index.html] I came across the

Refining My Data Bucket Class

Refining My Data Bucket Class

Last year I wrote a post [http://codetunnel.com/blog/post/how-to-combine-the-unit-of-work-pattern-and-repository-pattern-in-an-easy-and-intuitive-way] showing you how to combine the Unit of Work pattern [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd882510.aspx] and the repository pattern [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649690.aspx] into one elegant class that I call the

Monkey Patching

There are plenty of moments as a developer when you do something so clever that you just have to crack a little smile and be proud of yourself for a bit. When I'm writing JavaScript code many of these moments come in the form of monkey patches [http://en.wikipedia.

I Finally Understand Closures!

I Finally Understand Closures!

Since I started using Node I've fallen in love with JavaScript as a language. Before Node I liked JavaScript well enough, but without my trusty JQuery library it never impressed me much at all. Node has forced me to actually build a proper understanding of the JavaScript language itself. I've

How to Implement Auto-Save in your Web App

How to Implement Auto-Save in your Web App

Have you ever accidentally unfocused the textarea you were typing in and then hit backspace only to have the entire browser go back a page and blow away everything you were typing? Losing work is one of the most irritating things a user can experience in a web application. Today

Using custom jQuery events will save you a lot of headaches.

If you use JQuery [http://jquery.com/] then you have likely already done events like this: $('button').click(function (e) { alert('hello!'); }); JQuery's event wrapper is very useful and it allows you to easily bind to common DOM events like click, keypress, change, etc. But did you know that