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Node.js

Yow! Brisbane 2011

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Brisbane Yow! Conference.  This was a great conference with talks to interest developers across many languages platforms and experience. This blog is a summary of the more interesting talks that I attended and my thoughts on them.
12 December, 2011 /

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Cliffano Subagio from Shine Technologies presented together with Carl Husselbee from Sensis "JavaScript from Nose to Tail" at the August MelbJS Meetup. The slides and the video of the presentation are now online....

06 September, 2011 /

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The asynchronous event-driven I/O of Node.js is currently evaluated by many enterprises as a high-performance alternative to the traditional synchronous I/O of multi-threaded enterprise application server. The asynchronous nature means that enterprise developers have to learn new programming patterns, and unlearn old ones. They have to undergo serious brain rewiring, possibly with the help of electroshocks. This article shows how to replace old synchronous programming patterns with shiny new asynchronous programming patterns.

26 August, 2011 /

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I was recently faced with a bit of a coding challenge whereby I needed to get LDAP authentication working via SSL/TLS using Node. Unfortunately for me Node.js is a relatively new language and a secure LDAP library is still on the wish list. When I was first given this task, I actually didn't know where to start. I looked into creating a Node wrapper for some of the OpenLDAP libraries written in C. My project team was already using node-ldapauth, which utilizes OpenLDAP behind the scenes, so extending that was a possibility. I felt though that there must be an easier alternative, especially given how powerful node is with I/O. So I decided to implement a kind of TLS/SSL tunnel/port forward solution and use it in conjunction with node-ldapauth. Node v0.4.7 already has a built-in TLS connection library, so it was just a matter of constructing a 'tunnel' with a non-secure socket on one end, and a secure socket on the other.
04 July, 2011 /

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We have been using Apache CouchDB at one of our clients project, and despite how well CouchDB worked, we learnt that there was still no easy way to find certain documents without resorting to writing map reduce functions either via a temporary view or a design document. This was an issue in particular for our testers and others who were not exactly familiar with CouchDB. We needed an easier to use alternative, and that was the main reason why I wrote Couchtato.
30 June, 2011 /

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Node.js currently is getting much attention because it uses a concurrency model that shows great promise in scalability: event-driven asynchronous Input/Output. This model can handle thousands of concurrent user-requests and do that with a tiny memory footprint, things that cannot be done with the traditional multi-threaded concurrency model of Enterprise Java. This article explains this new approach from the viewpoint of an Enterprise Java developer.

10 June, 2011 /

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The use of bleeding-edge technology in the enterprise can be a daunting prospect. There are bugs to deal with, nuances to learn and third party libraries to overcome. Our team has been dealing with all of these issues over the past few months since one of our clients decided to use node for an upcoming project.
06 July, 2010 /

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