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Leiningen: Creating your Clojure project without setting your hair on fire
I’ve recently started to read a bit about Clojure, just for the sake of understanding that strange syntax that the language has. So far, I’m loving it, ofcourse I haven’t done much with it other than a...
View ArticleJavascript: OOP for the uninitiaded
Hello again!! This post will be a continuation of a previous post: Javascript: you’re doing it wrong. (check it out if you haven’t yet!). In here I’ll talk about two different approaches to Object...
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Clojure, higher order functions and You
Like I’ve said before, I’m starting to read up on Clojure, and writing a bit about the things I learn seems like a good way to put that knowledge to use. Today, I’ll be talking about Higher order...
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A story about a crawler and a search engine
So the other day on my way to work, a silly idea came to mind: “What if I were write a story about web crawlers and search engines…, but with a twist?” And here is the result, it’s just something not...
View ArticleRuby::Mechanize, interacting with webpages from your source code
Did you ever have to crawl or scrape a site that required login? Or maybe one that had quite a lot of javascript for UI interaction? Well, turns out, I had to do that a couple of weeks ago, I was...
View ArticleThe anatomy of a jQuery plugin: a case study
Back to the bloging world after a while, I’ll start by writing about jQuery plugins, a subject that even though is pretty straight forward, I think not many people dare to tackle. I’m not a particular...
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How to REST and not die trying – Writing API’s the REST way
I’ve been interacting with APIs for several years now, I’ve seen good things, and I’ve seen bad things. I’ve seen quite a lot of XML with SOAP, and I’ve seen a lot of JSON with REST APIs. I’m not...
View ArticlePHP::Writing a simple blog in Makiavelo Part I
Makiavelo is a new PHP Web Framework that’s in the works, you can find out more about it here. I think that the best way to learn a about a new framework, is to create something that actually works...
View ArticlePHP::Makiavelo writing a simple blog Part II
On my previous post I talked about the basic steps needed to start up our mini-blog project on Makiavelo. Now I’ll talk about the few lines of code needed to get the controllers ready and the...
View ArticleMakiavelo:: Now with Migrations!
That’s right! The latest code from Makiavelo just got a new feature: migrations. In my never ending journey of re-inventing the wheel, a.k.a building my own web framework for PHP, I’ve recently updated...
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Javascript: Dealing with “callback-soup” without an external library
Whether you’re working on the browser or on the server side, you might’ve run into what I like to call: Callback Soup. This happens when you start queuing one callback after the other. This is very...
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Review – Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook
A few weeks ago, I was asked by the PackT publisher to review one of their recent books: “Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook”. Here is what I think of it: The book “Google Maps JavaScript API...
View ArticleNode.js::Getting around Github’s Raw resources limitations
It’s a very common scenario: you finally find the file you’re looking for to start using on your website (be it a jquery plugin, an angular directive, or whatever you can include on your website) on...
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Last few days for Packt’s 2000th -Buy one get one Free Campaign
They got IT covered Get a move on! That’s right, Packt has had a Buy one get one Free Campaign for all of their e-books since March 18th to commemorate their 2000th published title: “Learning Dart”....
View ArticleCreating a simple REST API with Vatican.js
A couple of weeks ago, I released to the inter-world my take at what a microframework for creating API’s should look like. I called it Vatican.js. I got some interesting responses, but mostly, because...
View ArticleVatican.js 1.3, get your API up and running without writing a single line of...
A few weeks ago, I released version 1.3 of Vatican.js, my microframework design to ease the process of writing APIs in Node.js. My goal with Vatican has always been speed of development. And the main...
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