This how-to is going to kind of go all over the place. My goal is to get github data. The question however is, how and with what. I knew there were some available libraries, so writing straight and pulling straight off of the API myself seemed like it would be unnecessary work.

In the last blog entry I wrote up vows.js for testing JavaScript, in this I’ve tried out another testing framework called mocha. This framework is pretty extensive as you can do the things you do with vows.js as well as a lot of other techniques. In addition to mocha I’ve added a few other things to...

In the last blog entry I wrote up vows.js for testing JavaScript, in this I’ve tried out another testing framework called mocha. This framework is pretty extensive as you can do the things you do with vows.js as well as a lot of other techniques. In addition to mocha I’ve added a few other things to...

I sat down a few days ago on this trip to get a simple project setup, instead something else happened. It is my fault, entirely my fault. I could have stayed focused on a single library but instead I’ve let them explode. They’re everywhere now in my project! :o I’ve learned a great deal about brea...

One of the things I’ve started working on is a #PhatData (re: my renamed version of big data) sample. So far what I’ve created is a JavaScript Application that works something like this. (The actual build status is shown to the right here in the “build status” image) Step #1: Continuous Integrati...

Production Node.js Secrets by Daniel D. Shaw I have worked for over a year at startups based on Node.js. I will share some of the challenges encountered and how we dealt with them.

NodeJS is The New Thing and it also happens to be a lot of fun and quite capable. In this talk Rob will take you from 0 to production using NodeJS, the NPM package management system, MongoDB, ExpressJS, and a handful of other NodeJS modules. You'll see various ways to structure your application usin...

Building a REST API using Node.js with NoSQL database MongoDB. This demo app will be using MongoDB object modeling tool Mongoose to connecting with MongoDB from the Node app.

Part 2 will be coming soon... get a node.js site started with express.js, ready for a mash up. Alright, diving right in. First, get an express.js application setup and install all the dependencies. Creating the Express.js Web Application Next get a basic app with a message built. This will m... ...

Collection of useful resources on HTML 5 WebSockets.

This post demonstrate how to building Node.js apps using Cloud9 IDE ad deploying Node.js apps to Windows Azure from the Cloud9 IDE.

Node.js is officially supported on Azure with an open source SDK from Microsoft. Here's a tip on how to enable logging using the SDK.

After writing about “Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch” I’d like to talk about another integration which is using Github Hubot so that the build could be started directly form a chat room. So using the same idea, which is to extend our development environment, we imp...

For this post we’ll dive into a couple of styles for dealing with routes in Express.