When writing programs, just a little bit of extra thought can produce
exponential UX gains.
Say we want to take input of two values, separated by a space. We make an input
field, and tell the user to .... input two values separated by space. But users
don't read. They try…
I casually play minecraft from time to time and run a small server for group
play. Things are kept mostly vanilla, but code and hacking excites me as much as
(or more than) mining and crafting. I wanted a way to do something simple – say
boom in chat, and wherever…
I was made aware of trouble with a wordpress site – not that there's anything
inherently wrong with wordpress, this one just happened to be. It was a
non-profit site managed by a team of volunteers, and it was redirecting to a
spam-ish canadian pharmacy domain. Investigation found the site to…
Sails has grand goals. It's a smartly built and underappreciated framework that
pulls together some of the best utilities available to the node.js community and
combines them into one super framework of awesome.
....except that it doesn't....
My main gripe comes from the explanation of ORM/ODM where it…
I wanted to make a gulpfile to restart a server when files changed. It seemed
easy enough at first:
var gulp = require('gulp')
var child = require('child-process')
gulp.task('default', function(){
var ps
function spawn(){
if(ps) ps.kill() //spawn becomes respawn automatically
ps = child.spawn('node', ['.'], {stdio:…