Deploying Node apps on Amazon EC2 Micro with Stunnel and HAProxy
Recently, @cimm and me deployed a beta version of JSLogger. We encountered some unexpected issues on the IT (dark) side that delayed our launch. Load balancers and SSL support can be a pain in the as*...
View ArticleSending e-mails with NodeJS and NodeMailer through Google Mail
Sending e-mails with NodeJS is almost a breeze. Almost. First, you have to plug-in the nodemailer module than set up a transport type, load the templates, add attachments and finally send… The first...
View ArticleAsynchronous Template Loading With tmpload jQuery Plugin and Backbone.js
Demo Download Source I prefer keeping my “views” on the frontend side when building a Single Page Application. I use templates to update data on a certain portion of my interface. Using templates...
View ArticleImpressions From Full Frontal Javascript Conference 2011
Differently from other Javascript conferences, Full Frontal is supposed to be a one day conference that everyone can afford to go to. It happened in Brighton, a beautiful, small city in the South of...
View ArticleTest parent function calls with Jasmine for Backbone.js and write getters...
I spent about half an hour figuring out how to test a parent function call with Jasmine on code written with CoffeeScript. And, as usual, it was a stupid mistake. So, my intension was to rewrite the...
View ArticleSingle page application with Backbone.js on Rails
If you want to start a single page application (SPA) with a heavy front-end interface and you don’t have time to build your own Javascript MVC – you should definitely choose Backbone.js. We are...
View ArticlejQuery Doom Windows Plugin – Simple Javascript Dialogs
Demo Download Source jQuery page Looking for a tiny modal dialogs library? Then this one is for you. Doom Windows is easy to style, configure and extend. It also has a couple of shortcut functions...
View ArticlejQuery Novice To Ninja – Book Review
Recently a friend asked me what will be a good book to start learning jQuery with a more practical approach. My answer was ‘jQuery Novice To Ninja’ by Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie. It was a...
View ArticleShuffle Arrays with Javascript
Working with random values in Javascript is like leaving in a cave. The only thing you can work with is Math.random() that returns a random number between 0 and 1. If you need a 0 to 10 value –...
View ArticlejQuery Performance Tips Cheat Sheet
PDF ZIP Source 1024×768 1440×900 1280×960 1680×1050 1900×1200 I was hunting for jQuery performance tricks for a while to tune my heavy dynamic web app. After digging in a lot of articles decided to...
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