BurningbirdI’m finally leaving my cave and buying a real, live smart phone. I left the Apple world over a year ago, so I’m looking at buying an Android phone. I want one that comes with Ice Cream Sandwich. Hopefully a phone that doesn’t get stuck with one version of an OS for years and years. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After denouncing the use of Ruby and Rails terms to describe Node and Node modules, I must now confess that I did use a Rails resource in the section on MVC in Chapter 6. The Rails Guide has an absolutely beautifully written overview on MVC and routing, Rails Routing from the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Learning Node book is far enough along so that I can publish the Table of Contents for the book and it shouldn’t differ significantly from the TOC for the book when it’s finished. The chapters with an expanded TOC are those already finished—the rest are still in work. Before I print […]
I just finished my fourth chapter for my newest book for O’Reilly. I never feel a book is solid and real until the fourth chapter. By the fourth chapter, you have a book, not just an idea or outline. My newest work is titled “Learning Node”, about Node, or Node.js for the purists among you. It’s […]
Something is up with my VPS (virtual private server) the last 24 hours. I’ve twice had memory spikes that caused a kernel panic, which basically flat lined my system. I did find out I was using an outdated Linode kernel, so hoping this might have led to the problem. Otherwise, I’ll have to indulge in […]