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Books

Learning Node: Raw

Evidently, O’Reilly is going to publish my Learning Node book as a Rough Cuts/Early Release. What people should know is that the material has not gone through a final edit, a copy edit, or a tech review. So yes, there will be typos, gotchas, and oopsies. Probably lots and lots of oopsies. But the advantage […]

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Just Shelley

Suggests for a smart phone

I’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. […]

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Writing

Learning Node: Well, one Rails aside

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 […]

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Writing

Learning Node: Concepts and TOC

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 […]

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Books Technology

Node’s the thing

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 […]