• Markdeep

    http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ For writing text that will look good in any web browser. It supports diagrams, common styling conventions, and equations as extensions of Markdown syntax.

    Markdeep
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    … so this is that post for modularizing apps that rely largely on socket.io events.   This is for the ones that believe on the single-reponsibility principle and don’t find an example for this when trying to fit socket.io in an app that starts demanding some structure. tl;dr You can create socket.io middleware functions and…

    How to modularize a socket.io intensive app using middleware
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    http://poststatus.com/contribution-culture/

  • npm packages for accessing properties of objects using dot-path notation

    Two alternatives to accessing properties of objects using dot-path notation. and

  • https github com zapty forever service Amazing And…

    Amazing. And supports logrotate options!!

  • OSGeo

    I’m happy today because I was nominated yesterday as an OSGeo chart member by mmiranda and Jeff McKenna. Two great open source geo developers and advocates from the OSGeo Foundation. I’m glad to be part of the supporting community for this foundation. The nomination per-se is not a big deal. I won’t have too much…

  • Three usage scenarios with browserify

    Some prior words on browserify debug mode First of all, remember that browserify will, by default function in debug mode. That is why the first time you try browserify you’ll see a lot of gibberish characters appended to the browserified file. Every scenario described here, has its own way of disabling the debugging (i.e. disabling source…

    Three usage scenarios with browserify
  • Creating an evented interface from a polling function with NodeJS

    It’s not uncommon to be in the need to call an async function at an interval in order to get some data from a remote URL, or for instance, checking the status of a service. I’ve used a couple of npm modules that interface with a REST API (like i.e. node-twitter or node-flickr) and sometimes I want…

  • Sharing Express session data with socket.io

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