nodeJS: Beginnings

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 …

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nodeJS

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, …

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Shiny New Tech

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 …

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