This is part 3 of a series of posts I’m writing for Friendo, a web person who wants to get their hands a lot dirtier with Node and Postgres. You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here, where we...
Getting up to speed with Postgres and Node can be daunting but in this post I'll dive into how you can easily work with both - including JSON document storage... in Postgres!
I've been playing around with DigitalOcean lately, specifically the pre-rolled Applications they have setup. I'm just blown away at how simple things have become: including setting up your own private Heroku
Any tool can create a mess. Some seem more prone to messes then others - that's what I thought of KnockoutJS until recently when I had a chance to catch up with Steve Sanderson - Knockout's creator. We talked, I tried some different things. I've changed my mind.
One problem people face when starting out with Node (and JavaScript in general) is handling the asynchronous, deep callback nesting issue. EventEmitters help fix that.
NodeJS has a pretty specific convention when implementing callbacks in modules - function(err,result). Does this always make sense?