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Sql-templar by twilson63

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:39:35 -0400

A template engine abstraction over node-mysql, so you can easily drop your sql files in a template folder just like you drop your jade or ejs files

blog.izs.me: Unix Philosophy and Node.js

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:33:11 -0400

blog.izs.me: Unix Philosophy and Node.js:

izs:

At TxJS the other day, I gave a talk where I mentioned that the Unix Philosophy is a crucial part of the patterns, opinions, and culture of Node.js. As usual, I made my slides available online well in advance of the talk video being available.

For some reason, this brief mention of “Unix…

Open Letter to the Charleston Development Community #chsdev

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:27:15 -0500

I hope everyone is having an awesome 2013.

Upcoming Events!

March 14 CODEShow http://www.chscodeshow.com/ - The city of Charleston through the Digital Corridor is running this event, it will be the start of many code events. It is time we come together and start the process of building an awesome Dev Community in Charleston.

March 27 and 28 POSSCON http://posscon.org/ 2013, this event is a steal at $99 and the headliners are worth 3x the price of admission. A great place to be if you use any open source tech. Speakers include CTO of Obama, Mozilla, Engine Yard, Groupon, Google, etc.

April 12 - 14 - DigSouth http://www.digsouth.com/, think SXSW, but in Charleston!

April 25 - 27 is ConvergeSE one of the top notch Front-End conferences in the country. If front-end development is your thing, this is the place to get cutting edge inspiration.

What a great time to be a software developer in Charleston!

Take advantage of these opportunities and expand your knowledge.

BootStrap Typeahead Directive of AngularJS

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:44:58 -0500

Bootstrap Typeahead Directive for AngularJS

A simple directive wrapper around the Bootstrap Typeahead component

Requirements

Bootstrap (2.1.1)
AngularJS (1.0.2, 1.0.3)

Goal

The goal of this project is to have a straight forward typeahead component example using angular, that can be forked and customized by developers wanting more specific use cases for their typeahead component.

Usage

the bstypeahead directive takes an array of objects with id and name properties, and displays the name property in the code completion and stores the id attribute in the model. You can set the model programmatically to the id and the name will show up in the input. This is not a fancy end all be all typeahead control, but it does work well for the use case of storing id and displaying names.

https://github.com/twilson63/bstypeahead-directive

Simple Upload Service for AngularJS

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:29:24 -0500

Simple Upload Service for AngularJS:

AngularJS is a great framework for single page applications, but doing async uploads to support a broad range of browsers is a bit challenging. (The HTML5 file api is awesome, but does not land in IE until IE10). Here is a service that leverages an iframe to implement a file upload, it is bare bones and simple.

The Nuances of Scope Prototypal Inheritance

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:32:58 -0500

The Nuances of Scope Prototypal Inheritance

Convincing the Boss to Learn NodeJS

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:27:56 -0500

Convincing the Boss to Learn NodeJS:

Working in Java or .Net?

Make 2013 the year you learn a new technology.

Using NodeJS can bring a lot of quick wins for your organization.

JSON API’s
NoSQL Datastore
Streaming Data
Prototyping
etc

If your in Charleston, check out the CODECamp NodeJS Class http://www.chscodecamp.com/classes/node-js

There are 9 seats available and classes start January 16.

Happy Holidays!

Redis Crashes

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:17:57 -0500

Redis Crashes

Installing STUD on Ubuntu 12.04

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:42:16 -0400

Here are some steps on installing STUD on ubuntu 12.04

sudo apt-get install libev-dev libssl-dev git-core -y
git clone git://github.com/bumptech/stud.git
cd stud
make
sudo make install

To run with an ssl cert just

stud --ssl my.pem

This will listen on port 8443 and forward to 8000

ngFiddle a tool to fiddle with AngularJs

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:33:00 -0400

AngularJs has be come the javascript client tool of choice for Jack Russell Software, we have been bike shedding on many different client mv* frameworks for a few years. Our clients continue to demand richer ui experiences on the client and our jquery code base has gotten out of control.

We started some exploration with backbonejs one of the first mv* frameworks and had problems working with it and coffee-script, which was mostly user error. Back then there was not a lot of documentation to go around and you had to setup your data-binding manually.

Next, we started down the path of SproutCore2, now Ember and it was our best fit, but you had to manage your own ajax calls. We did finally go with Ember in production and it worked great, the only issue, was that our development team continuously said that it was hard to step back into an ember app after not looking at it for a few months. The application was hard to digest and grok.

Hello AngularJs

A few months ago, we started experimenting with AngularJs and it appeared to be odd with the declarative programming model, we quickly feel in love with its testing story and how the framework focuses on testability. So now, we have a few modules going into production and one is reducing our javascript code base by 70%.

If you are on the fence on javascript mv* frameworks give AngularJs a try! It is working well for us.

Check out this nifty little tool we created called ngfiddle - http://ngfiddle.jit.su - a great place to play around with the AngularJs framework and share your fiddles with other devs.

New Release of html2haml.heroku.com

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:14:32 -0400

New Release of html2haml.heroku.com:

There is a new release of html2haml.heroku.com, mainly bugfixes, but one upgrade to the new html2haml gem and haml 3.2 beta.

As always, post any issues to github! http://github.com/twilson63/html2haml

CoffeeScript Source Maps

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:12:48 -0400

CoffeeScript Source Maps:

dhotson:

Yes! This will enable you to debug coffeescript directly in your browser.

AngularJS Contact Form Example

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:28:00 -0400

AngularJS is a powerful MV-Star framework from Google that has all kinds of neat features, focused on testability and automatic data-binding, it uses a declarative markup style and leverages the strength of the DOM. Yes, the dom is ok at some things. :D

The AngularJS team feels the future of the web is moving more to this declarative style, time will tell, but it definitely makes my life a little less painless.

This example does not really go into the power of AngularJS, but demostrates its simplicity and strong declarative features.

Check out:

https://gist.github.com/3629261

It is a fully functioning contact form that validates every field for being required and validates the the e-mail field for being an e-mail.

It is amazing the amount of functionality you get declaratively, to just do a simple form validation and post.

Upgraded 1.5 - Express-Coffee

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 23:16:17 -0400

Upgraded 1.5 - Express-Coffee:

Upgraded to Express 3rc2
Tested on Windows (server 2008)

Added RevealJs to Bam 8.1 For more information on RevealJs...

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:20:00 -0400

Added RevealJs to Bam 8.1

For more information on RevealJs check out:

http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/

mssqlx

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:01:51 -0400

mssqlx:

pipe sql to mssqlx and get json out

should work great on all platforms, especially mac and unix, without any other drivers, just nodejs.

usage

echo 'select * from sysobjects' | mssqlx | prettyjson

source

https://github.com/twilson63/node-mssqlx

future

Currently, this only works on the command-line, the next version will work via stream api:

var mssqlx = require('mssqlx'),
  nconf = require('nconf'),
  fs = require('fs'),
  conf = nconf.get('production');

  fs.createFileReadStream('foo.sql').pipe(mssqlx(conf)).pipe(process.stdout);

w3

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:57:14 -0400

w3:

@akennedy and I were digging through angularjs, a new client mv* framework from google. When we evaluate new tech, it is nice to go through the examples, but we really need to quickly see how these frameworks will do at solving our needs. Our applications use a lot of autocompletes, dynamic selects and a lot of ajax. So we need to create small little spikes to test these concerns.

NodeJs is great for quickly building small web servers or we could fire up apache or nginx. But this does take time and most of the time we just open a file in the browser.

Today, I created a simple static web server called w3. The big win is that if you have nodejs and npm install w3 -g

Now you have a little web server you can bring up and down in any folder.

Its easy! Just go to a folder create index.html anything else and then run w3 in the folder and you are serving files.

I hope you find this utility as valuable as we do!

Error Loading Data in MySQL

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:54:08 -0400

Error Loading Data in MySQL

hackingonstuff: Your Own Little node.js PaaS - Part 1

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:12:17 -0400

hackingonstuff: Your Own Little node.js PaaS - Part 1:

eladb:

PaaS (platform-as-a-service) services are blooming these days (Heroku, Nodejitsu, nodester, cloudcontrol and many more). All offer some awesome features. I set out to try and set up a very simple node.js PaaS for myself within an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance. It obviously lacks many of the…

The Naive Optimist: How I manage 40 people remotely

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:52:57 -0400

The Naive Optimist: How I manage 40 people remotely:

ryanleecarson:

I recently asked what you’d like me to cover here on the blog. I got a great question from @tfav

@ryancarson I would love to hear about managing a remote team.
— Travis Favaron (@tfav) June 8, 2012

I’ve been running Treehouse since August 2010 from my home in the United Kingdom….