September 2011
2 posts
Lessons learned from entering Node Knock Out
As the second NKO is reaching it’s end I would like to share my experiences and
lessons that I have learned from entering the contest in 2010 and 2011. I hope
this would help some people in the future to prevent them or learn from the
countless mistakes I have made.
Sleep is for the weak
Producing code for 48h is a really long run, it will feel as if your eye balls
are shrinking to little...
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Why I want to win so badly
It’s only been one weekend since the Node Knock Out finished, one might expect
that coding a full application in 48 hours using a complete Node.js stack is
hard work but boy.. was I wrong. The hardest part is actually winning during the
Node Knock Out.
Entering Node Knockout
This is the second time that I entered the Node Knock Out competition, it’s
a amazing contest that allows you...
May 2011
5 posts
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This week in Node
Welcome to another epic episode of This week in Node, where I blog about the latest news and updates in the Node.js community.
Node 0.4.8
A new Node stable has been released just one day after I posted This week in Node #20. This release brings us more performance for encrypted SSL connections. This is achieved by disabling the compressions in OpenSSL. This improves memory consumption and...
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Theoretical Node.js Real time Performance
Benchmarking Node.js seems to be hot topic lately, not week passes without a benchmark being posted on HackerNews All these benchmarks highlight different parts and usages of Node.js. On some of them Node.js performs well and on others it sucks, badly. Both types of benchmarks are useful as it shows other users what Node.js is capable off. But it also shows us, developers, what needs to be worked...
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This week in Node
Welcome to another episode of This week in Node where I write about the latest update in the Node.js repository and existing updates that happen in user land.
Socket.IO 0.6.18
This week we released Socket.IO 0.6.18, which will hopefully be our last maintenance release before the much anticipated 0.7 release. While I could dedicate a whole new post on the changes that where made in 0.6.18, I...
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This week in Node
This week in Node is a weekly blog post that focuses on the latest changes and updates in the Node.js repository and in NPM modules.
Forking and IPC
Commit 9e26dab150e and 337c48db5fe landed a new method in the child_process module. The fork method allows you to spawn a new Node.js process and pass messages between your current Node.js process and the newly created process using a Inter Process...
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Hello! I'm from the Internet
Hello, I’m from the Internet and I would like to introduce my self. I’m a web designer, web developer, front end engineer, a Node.js user, father, JavaScript pirate and overall performance whore. I love to find out what makes the Internet tick and how to make it tick more efficiently. I started out as web designer and started educating my self to learn more about programming and...