It’s time to bring back the old Friday Scala Kata and practice a new favorite, Conway’s Game of Life. Given a grid of cells, the following rules apply: Any cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation. Any cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding. [...]
Archive for September, 2010
DropNode Github Repo Now Public
September 26th, 2010
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Recently someone posted on my previous entry about my team’s Node Knockout entry DropNode that they’d love to see the source for it. I didn’t know that it wasn’t publicly available and I’ve now fixed that. I haven’t done anything with it since then but plan to someday revisit it. I think the HTMl5 File [...]
Paynode: More Payflow API methods + Braintree Integration
September 26th, 2010
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This morning I took some time out to do a few chores on my pet node.js project, paynode. In case you missed it, this has been my attempt to fill a void in node.js land for payment gateway integration. Think ActiveMerchant for node.js. Today I’ve made a few updates to it. In an effort to [...]
Lessons Learned With My Recent Node.js App
September 26th, 2010
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Recently I created a little web app for a friend’s conference to accept talk submissions and gather votes on those submissions to rank the top ones. For this task I used heroku’s node.js beta preview to host the application and a free couchone instance for the data store. Things were a bit rocky but I [...]
RabbitMQ, Node.js and Java Goodness
September 9th, 2010
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Tuesday night I gave a talk at a local Java User Group (that’s four JUG appearances this year, hoorah!) on RabbitMQ and demonstrated not just using it communicate between two java processes, but also as a way of communicating asynchronously between a node.js application and a java application… I have to say it was pretty [...]
Bundling Node.js Dependencies For Deployment on Heroku
September 5th, 2010
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Thought I’d throw this out there for those who are new to node.js or just in general new to deploying apps to heroku, but here’s how to bundle dependencies via npm for deployment to heroku (or even for any kind of redistribution in general). Given that you have defined the dependencies of your project in [...]
