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Fight Recap: NodeKO

3 Sep 2010

This past weekend I had the honor of participating in the fearsome Rocky-IV-style hackathon that was Node Knockout. For those who may actually have a life: Node Knockout was a 48 hour competition featuring teams of hackers each pecking away at a web application that should be somewhat complete-ish after at the end of the two days. In [...]

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Book Review: Advanced JavaScript by TJ Holowaychuck

29 Mar 2010

I’m not sure if it’s been done before, but I may very well be the first GitHub stalker (hold your applause, please). Who is my target you ask? Vision Media, aka TJ Holowaychuk on GitHub, author of ExpressJS, a Sinatra-inspired Web Framework written for NodeJS. After cloning and examining a lot of his repos (Use [...]

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I heart Node.js

10 Mar 2010

Node.js is one of the most intriguing projects I’ve seen in a while. For some reason, I’ve never truly enjoyed programming until I started programming in JavaScript. I did the usual BASIC programming as a freshman in high school, and actually tried learning C a bit earlier when I was 12 (let’s just say it [...]

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jQuery DOM Manipulation und Performance

10 Feb 2010

I’m not promising this blog is gonna be hot and spicy all the time, but It’s been a while since I posted, and I thought I would make it something geeky — performance tests! I swear I’m working on a new template for this site, and naturally it’s going to revolutionize web design. Unfortunately, skiing [...]

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