Tim Hudson timhudson

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial post by a random person from the community. I am not an official representative of io.js. Want to ask a question? open an issue on the node-forward discussions repo

io.js - what you need to know

io is a fork of node v0.12 (the next stable version of node.js, currently unreleased)
io.js will be totally compatible with node.js
the people who created io.js are node core contributors who have different ideas on how to run the project
it is not a zero-sum game. many core contributors will help maintain both node.js and io.js

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

JSConf Slides, Codes and Notes

These are all the JSConf 2014 slides, codes, and notes I was able to cull together from twitter. Thanks to the speakers who posted them and thanks to @chantastic for posting his wonderful notes.

Modular frontend with NPM - Jake Verbaten (@Raynos)

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Using self-signed certificate.

Create a Certificate Authority root (which represents this server)

Organization & Common Name: Some human identifier for this server CA.

openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt

At AMEE, we've been using Sendgrid (to take care of delivering email) and KissMetrics (to help us understand in detail how our apps are used) for a while now (we'd never be able to deliver the same level of service internally as they can, and they get better for free), but as is often the case when working with disparate third party services, they don't always work together how you want.

One of the reasons we use these two services however, is that they provide a rich enough API to combine them to plug gaps like we mentioned above.

For example, we use Sendgrid for transactional email, and it does a sterling job when it comes to actually making sure email ends up in the right inbox. But if we wanted to see what a user did with an email it had arrived, and log that for analysis later, we could't find a simple way to do this.

Likewise with KissMetrics - it's straightforward enough to create a libary of events in the browser to log, that you can then combine in groups to build reports on how well a certain

High level style in javascript.

Opinions are like assholes, every one has got one.

This one is mine.

Punctuation: who cares?

Punctuation is a bikeshed. Put your semicolons, whitespace, and commas where you like them.

	The MIT License (MIT)

	Copyright (c) 2014 Tomas Kafka

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	# npm publish with goodies
	# prerequisite: `npm install -g trash`
	# `np` with an optional argument `patch`/`minor`/`major`/`<version>`
	# defaults to `patch`
	np() {
	trash node_modules &>/dev/null;
	git pull --rebase &&
	npm install &&
	npm test &&
	npm version ${1:-patch} &&

	/**
	* Does an AJAX load of the specified URL
	*
	* @param {String} url URL to load
	* @param {Object} data Hash of data to send in querystring
	* @param {Function} callback Function to call once request returns
	*/
	function load(url, data, callback) {
	if (data) {
	var params = Object.keys(data)

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Usage: ./redis-movekeys.sh [-h host] [-p port] [-n src] [-m dest] pattern
	#
	# Move keys matching pattern from the src Redis database to the
	# dest Redis database.

	set -e

	HOST="localhost"