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Tips for Writing Portable Node.js Code

(This is the kind of thing I should put on my hypothetical blog.)

I'm a Node.js user... on Windows. (Gasp!) And here are some of the issues I face every day:

In order of most-violated to least-violated:

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

	;; This example shows how to create a single producer and multiple consumers.
	;; Each consumer will receive the message. I'm not sure if internally it's handled in a round-robin manner,
	;; but when queue does not listen for messages (e.q. it's processing them), it won't receive one.
	;;
	;; In order to run it, use:
	;;
	;; lein2 run --mode consumer
	;;
	;; And in other window:
	;;

	// arcfour aka RC4 enc/decrypt function
	// see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4
	arcfour = (function () {
	"use strict";
	var swap = function (a, i, j) {
	var tmp = a[i];
	a[i] = a[j];
	a[j] = tmp;
	};

	/*
	* Fair License (Fair)
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2012, IWAMURO Motonori
	*
	* Usage of the works is permitted provided that this instrument is
	* retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the works is
	* notified of this instrument.
	*
	* DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.

	function getCodePoint(array) {

	/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	[UCS-2 (UCS-4)] [bit pattern] [1st byte] [2nd byte] [3rd byte] [4th byte]
	U+ 0000.. U+007F 00000000-0xxxxxxx 0xxxxxxx
	U+ 0080.. U+07FF 00000xxx-xxyyyyyy 110xxxxx 10yyyyyy
	U+ 0800.. U+FFFF xxxxyyyy-yyzzzzzz 1110xxxx 10yyyyyy 10zzzzzz
	U+10000..U+1FFFFF 00000000-000wwwxx 11110www 10xxxxxx 10yyyyyy 10zzzzzz
	-xxxxyyyy-yyzzzzzzz
	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

	/**
	* Function to fix native charCodeAt()
	*
	* Now, we can use fixedCharCodeAt("foo€", 3); for multibyte (non-bmp) chars too.
	*
	* @access public
	* @see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/charCodeAt
	* @note If you hit a non-bmp surrogate, the function will return false
	* @param str String Mixed string to get charcodes
	* @param idx Integer Position of the char to get

	" Vim syntax file
	" Language: SQL, PGSQL (postgres 9.1)
	" Last Change: 2012 May 21st
	" Maintainer: Grégoire Hubert <greg DOT hubert AT gmail DOT com>
	" Based on the work of Paul Moore <pf_moore AT yahoo.co.uk>

	" For version 5.x: Clear all syntax items
	" For version 6.x: Quit when a syntax file was already loaded
	if version < 600
	syntax clear

	foo {
	animation-name: spin;
	animation-duration: 3s;
	animation-timing-function: ease \| linear \| ease-in \| ease-out \| ease-in-out \| step-start \| step-end \| steps(10,start \| end) \| cubic-bezier(<number>, <number>, <number>, <number>);
	animation-delay: 3s;
	animation-iteration-count: infinite \| 10;
	animation-direction: alternate \| normal;
	animation-fill-mode: forward \| backwards \| both \| none;
	animation-play-state: running \| paused;
	}