Artem Vovsia avovsya

Node.js core does its best to treat every platform equally. Even if most Node developers use OS X day to day, some use Windows, and most everyone deploys to Linux or Solaris. So it's important to keep your code portable between platforms, whether you're writing a library or an application.

Predictably, most cross-platform issues come from Windows. Things just work differently there! But if you're careful, and follow some simple best practices, your code can run just as well on Windows systems.

Paths and URLs

On Windows, paths are constructed with backslashes instead of forward slashes. So if you do your directory manipulation

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

Solarized
Git
Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

	###
	Module dependencies
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	require.paths.unshift "#{__dirname}/lib/support/express-csrf/"
	require.paths.unshift "#{__dirname}/lib/support/node_hash/lib/"

	express = require 'express'
	app = module.exports = express.createServer()

	RedisStore = require 'connect-redis'

	var JST = {
	prefix: 'js/templates/',
	extension: '.hbs',

	compile_template: function(name, data) {
	this[name] = Handlebars.compile(data);
	},

	register_partial: function(name, data) {
	this[name] = Handlebars.registerHelper(name, Handlebars.compile(data));

	unless := method(
	(call sender doMessage(call message argAt(0))) ifFalse(
	call sender doMessage(call message argAt(1))) ifTrue(
	call sender doMessage(call message argAt(2)))
	)

	unless(1 == 2, write("One is not two\n"), write("one is two\n"))

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	#!/bin/sh

	VERSION=0.8.6
	PLATFORM=darwin
	ARCH=x64
	PREFIX="$HOME/node-v$VERSION-$PLATFORM-$ARCH"

	mkdir -p "$PREFIX" && \
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/v$VERSION/node-v$VERSION-$PLATFORM-$ARCH.tar.gz \
	\| tar xzvf - --strip-components=1 -C "$PREFIX"

	# configuration for osx clipboard support


	set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l sh"