Node.js is one of the most unexpected technology for me JavaScript on the server side was an unbelievable thing for me 5 years ago. And to be honest, JavaScript was not a very straightforward technology with the main goal to handle HTML/CSS based UI. But now we have several successful Node.js projects in Kvinivel and it seems like everything will be done with JavaScript soon. And JavaScript itself becomes a much more serious and straightforward language. In my last post,…

The post contains ultimate off-topic, so the source code is here :) : https://bitbucket.org/dpeleshenko/mdshow Besides managing my company Kvinivel and working as a developer, I am working with students at the Kharkiv university. That is a good way to find young talents and prepare them to work in our company. So I am very often preparing some technical presentations. I have a huge archive of presentations from different technologies. When I prepare my lectures I have to merge these presentations,…

I'm writing this blog after we have done several projects (some of them were commercial, some internal) with these technologies at Kvinivel and discovered a lot of things that are not covered by the documentation. Let's try to understand the place of every project on the global picture Many of us already know about the new version of .Net. There are a lot of resources saying that it will be open source, will run on Linux and OS X without…

Maybe some people already know this feature, but I was discovered it only today. A lot of JS debugging brings some benefits, and today I found the possibility to edit code and save it on disk with Google Chrome (or any other WebKit-based browser). Hope this will simplify some debugging tasks for you. See how to enable this feature below: Add folders(s) with your source code to the browser's workspace Allow browser to access the file system (I have a…