actionHero is growing up so fast! Love? actionHero has undergone some significant improvements over the past 2 months to make him stronger and faster! We now use a redis backend to handle shared memo...
Not Evil. Kind of Cute really. Where have I been for the past month? Well, I’ve been heads-down helping to launch the internet of things. Now that we have launched, I can tell you all about it!...
Disclaimer: this article only applies to iOs… sorry Android and Blackberry folks. The push notification new methods in AppDelegate.m I have been developing a game which will be played on mo...
Website Snapshot I recently got a note from an actionHero user asking about the difference between tasks and actions within the framework. Here’s a bit of a clarification: Think of an action a...
I really like Capistrano. Capistrano is a deployment gem for Ruby which helps you manage migrations, deployments, applications, etc on all of your many servers. It excels at keeping many servers in ...
Whenever I am about to start integrating with a new API, I like to walk though the steps with cURL. For those of you who have been living under a rock, cURL is a great command-line tool which can em...
I recently had a chance to try out blitz.io (or click my affiliate link thing and get me some free tests), a new load-testing tool from MuDynamics. They offer a product that is somewhere between Apa...
YCombinator Logo I have decided to apply for the Summer 2012 class of YCombinator as a “founder without an idea”. As part of the application process, the applicants (typically a team of a...
Website Snapshot HUZZAH! actionHero.js, the API framework for both HTTP and raw TCP clients is now at version 1! This release took over a month to push out, and focused on adding a full test suite so...
Coming Soon… Blog inspires Art Yes, it is apparently a good business idea to sell old, giant metal letters.
So… This blog was hacked. Hack the Planet! (http://www.cnet.com/) Note: I have included links to some of the malicious PHP code which attacked me in this blog post. I had a hard time deciding ...
I have a hard time answering the question “where are you from?”. I’ve lived in over 15 different homes in 8 cities. I was born in New Jersey, went to high school in Pennsylvania, ...
After all the hoopla about node.js and Nerf guns yesterday I revisited the `phidgets` package and fixed a few bugs. Most importantly there should no longer be any “skipped” data lines li...
A Phidget board and a Nerf Gun. What are they doing together? ** Update: It seems that the good folks on Hacker News also like the internet and nerf guns (who knew!?). There is a growing collection ...
actionHero is growing up! actionHero Logo The project now has it’s own “big-boy” domain name: http://actionherojs.com/
A quick update about the nodeSpider project (my first public node.js project!): It is now based on actionHero. http://earth911.com/wp-content /uploads/2011/11/Steven-Rodrig -PCB-Creations-Spider.jpg I ...
travis-ci logo Travis CI is raising money to keep their free community continues integ ration server up and running. This is an awesome service which I use to test my node projects. I’m lazy. W...
Just a quick update: The nodeCheker project which I spoke about a few months ago got an update today. Now you can execute arbitrary SSH commands to other servers (like checking load, disk space, etc...
At ModCloth, our website uses the Ruby on Rails framework, and we use the unicorn web server. When deploying code via Capistrano, we have a funny line of code which turns off our old web-servers an...
A few friends of mine recently were talking about the concept of a “life manifesto”, and I wanted to try it. 3D render I did in 2003. Faux-Inspirational! A Life Manifesto is a collection ...
After almost 15 hours or compile-try-fail-repeat, I’ve figured out the formula for compiling nodeJS on a Phidget SBC2 board! Phidget SBC2 Board. Made pretty with Instagram. This combinat...
Stollen from githire.com @ Jan 22 2012 David Padilla of Crowd Interactive recently realized he was on this recruiting site called GitHire. They use algorithms to inspect your public GitHub r...
My last post was about creating a generic npm package to talk to a phidget board. This post is about compiling nodeJS to run -on- a phidget board. There is a special class of Phidget boards which ar...
Im an artist! For those of you who don’t know what Phidgets are, they are small robotic prototyping boards which can handle (binary) input and output, along with a collection of analog sensors ...
Demo Server: http://actionhero.evan tahler.com Project Site: http://evantahler.github .com/actionHero/ Yep, hosted on Ec2 (small server)
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