A new colleague and friend of mine, Cosmin and I were talking at lunch the other day about EC2. He has been playing with AWS and EC2 for longer than I have and had some great suggestions. One of them was to prefer automating EC2 Instance creation and setup with shell scripts over using Instance …
So two posts ago I documented my first foray into nodeJS. The result was a simple HTTP server that served one line of static HTML. All I really accomplished was to prove to myself that nodeJS was installed correctly, I could copy/paste six lines of code, and that the copied code would actually create a …
As I was doing research and working to get my EC2 instance up and running, I ran across a thread (I can’t remember where) that outlined a potentially frustrating scenario. Fortunately I escaped learning this lesson in my normal mode and learned it from someone else’s mistake! There are two ways to shut down a …
While my last post cast a wide net, this post will start the process of focusing in on just a couple things: first nodeJS and later, Angular. So what is nodeJS? Based on my (very little) experience, it is a tool for building lightweight, highly-concurrent, non-blocking, asynchronous services in JavaScript. It supports many common protocols like TCP, …
I have been playing with some new toys in the JavaScript space. It started over a year ago with my interest in using BDD to design and code JavaScript for the browser. I started with JSpec and made the transition to Jasmine. Along the way I puttered around in JQuery and even a bit in …
or Prematurely Optimizing Development Teams It has been a while (almost a year) since I started my “Agile Blind Spots” series. If you’re like me, you may need a memory refresher: here is the first article, and here is the second article. If you’re also lazy like me, the basic gist of these articles was …