BurningbirdI received a notice from UPS on a package shipped from California. “Train derailment” was all it said. So I have to backtrack to discover that a coal train derailed in Nevada on Sunday, damaging the tracks. The tracks weren’t fixed until Tuesday, which delayed all other trains using these same tracks. My package arrived […]
Folks who have been reading my various publications over the years will know about Golden Girl. Golden Girl is a 2002 Ford Focus I purchased when living in San Francisco a decade ago. She’s my first car, since I didn’t get a driver’s license until later in life. How much later in life is incidental to this […]
Just finished the final tech review of my Learning Node book. At 400 pages, it’s a big book. I must admit to being more than a little tired. Right now, I feel I could sleep for a week. The big announcement in Node land is that unstable 0.7.x is being moved to stable 0.8.x next week. As a […]
Learning Node will be my last book for O’Reilly, at least for the foreseeable future. Learning Node was a particularly exhausting book. Not only is there much to cover in one book, Node is a very dynamic technology. I like to think my coverage is both comprehensive and solid, but I guess we’ll see how the book […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During my explorations of Node.js, I came across many excellent resources, references, tutorials, and various other online publications related to the technology. I had planned on incorporating this material into an appendix for Learning Node but decided it would make a better online resource than a book chapter. Every person […]