[nodejs] Re: Can you build a CMS in 14 days? $10,000 Prize

2012-07-16 Thread Stefan Scholl
Oleg Sadov wrote: > What about Plone? It's powerful & flexible Python driven CMS which use > in some government organizations (FBI for ex.): Plone is cool. At 1/100 of the speed of node.js :-) No, really. Plone is slow as molasses. And not easy to change the layout. The CMS "market" is depressi

[nodejs] Nodejs / Google Feed API

2012-07-16 Thread Marco Rogers
It looks like you want to use the google jsapi in the server in node. I think you'll have a hard time because that library assumes a browser DOM environment. You can't just use it as is. But that's not your only problem here. "chunk.google.load" doesn't make any sense. It sounds like you may ne

[nodejs] [ANN] Portastic

2012-07-16 Thread Alan Hoffmeister
Hello fellows, We are proud to announce the first release of Portastic, a port finder for Node.js With it you can easy find opened ports to start your server or inform a process witch port to use, you can also test ports to see if they are opened. Portastic also comes with a command line tool,

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread Rick Waldron
Dammit Marak, you blitzed me ;P -Rick On Monday, July 16, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Marak Squires wrote: > Err. > > Remove count = staff.length; > > and like I said, use the async lib. > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Marak Squires (mailto:marak.squi...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > > var staff =

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread Marak Squires
Err. Remove *count = staff.length;* and like I said, use the async lib. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Marak Squires wrote: > > var staff = ["bill","mary"]; >> var total = []; >> var count = 0; >> get_total_list(staff, function(err, callback) { >> count = staff.length; >> >> for (var i=0;

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread Marak Squires
> var staff = ["bill","mary"]; > var total = []; > var count = 0; > get_total_list(staff, function(err, callback) { > count = staff.length; > for (var i=0; i get_staff_children(staff[i], function(err, cb) { > total.push(cb); > count++; > if(count === staff.length) { >

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread Martin Wawrusch
With all due respect, this library is one of the most used in the whole node.js ecosystem and is definitely simpler to use then rolling your own, AND testing it. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:15 PM, john.tiger wrote: > On 07/16/2012 07:41 PM, Martin Wawrusch wrote: > > This should help: > > https:/

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread john.tiger
On 07/16/2012 07:41 PM, Martin Wawrusch wrote: This should help: https://github.com/caolan/async honestly, we are having enough trouble with additional libraries - we just want a simple solution with node code On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:55 PM, john.tiger mailto:john.tigernas...@gmail.com

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Hahn
> stuck in async hell Well, maybe async beginner's hell. You do know that the inner loop will complete before the first callback to cb, right? You need to study some node tutorials. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Martin Wawrusch wrote: > This should help: > > https://github.com/caolan/async

Re: [nodejs] node-mongodb-native problems with sort

2012-07-16 Thread john.tiger
well, after cloning the latest github version now the Bson module can't be found (we use the libs directly not using npm - even putting the bson folder under mongodb folder does not work - are there now hard coded paths ? On 07/16/2012 12:35 AM, christkv wrote: sort seems to work fine. the

Re: [nodejs] Nodejs / Google Feed API

2012-07-16 Thread Dominic Tarr
you need to post the error. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Florian Shena wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I want to use the google feed API on my nodejs app. So far I've loaded the > api using the Nodejs http.request but when I call google.load("feeds", "1") > I get an error : > > var http = require(

Re: [nodejs] Re: "Standard" Test Runner for Node

2012-07-16 Thread Dominic Tarr
_everyone_ a strong opinion on this. our test frameworks need to be rewritten now that we have domains. maybe, write through exercises in the book? On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Roly Fentanes wrote: > If you can get your tests' point across clearly by using node's `assert` > module and it's

Re: [nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread Martin Wawrusch
This should help: https://github.com/caolan/async On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:55 PM, john.tiger wrote: > stuck in async hell - page displaying (with null) before going thru full > loop and returning total with data - probably some simple funct wrap but > can't see it - thks for any help > > var s

[nodejs] need help with sub routine callback with for loop

2012-07-16 Thread john.tiger
stuck in async hell - page displaying (with null) before going thru full loop and returning total with data - probably some simple funct wrap but can't see it - thks for any help var staff = ["bill","mary"]; var total = []; get_total_list(staff, function(err, callback) { for (var i=0; i [] -

[nodejs] Help with Node.js + Express + Now.js T_T

2012-07-16 Thread Eysenck Gómez
Hi all, sorry, but I wanted to ask if any of you have used with express nowjs, I've tried to make an application day in real time, using these technologies, but I have many problems, my project is to make a kind of web poker-style games, where there are canals and rooms, and you create a room a

[nodejs] Nodejs / Google Feed API

2012-07-16 Thread Florian Shena
Hi everybody, I want to use the google feed API on my nodejs app. So far I've loaded the api using the Nodejs http.request but when I call google.load("feeds", "1") I get an error : var http = require('http'); var options = { host: 'www.google.com', port: 80, path: '/jsapi', method: 'G

[nodejs] Re: [new module] stalker - utility to monitor a directory tree for new files

2012-07-16 Thread Kris De Volder
I like the simplicity of the API. I also like the fact that I get a callback for all files in the directory on the initial call. This is just right so one can build some index of a bunch of files in a directory and then keep updating the index when files get added. (For now I only need the file

[nodejs] Re: "Standard" Test Runner for Node

2012-07-16 Thread Roly Fentanes
If you can get your tests' point across clearly by using node's `assert` module and it's not that much difficult to structure compared to a full featured test framework, then consider using it. Otherwise, mocha is the popular recent one, and my personal choice. nodeunit is easy to understand to

Re: [nodejs] header for response.writeHead() - best way to remove?

2012-07-16 Thread P. Douglas Reeder
Given the results at http://jsperf.com/test-v8-delete/2 it looks like delete is something to avoid in loops if you can, but OK to use generally. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this messag

[nodejs] Re: Emacs

2012-07-16 Thread Jeff Barczewski
I also just came across some great emacs screencast tutorial / feature demos at emacsrocks.com by Magnar Sveen, he demonstrates some awesome emacs packages (not specific to javascript). http://emacsrocks.com/ - individual emacs screencasts demonstrating different packages and their features e

[nodejs] Re: "Standard" Test Runner for Node

2012-07-16 Thread Jeff Barczewski
Alex, I think you should go with whatever is your favorite for tests, and I don't see it being a problem for people to understand what it is doing, especially if you are using a TDD style. The BDD style tests require a bit of understanding on how they work, and how all the context setup happe

Re: [nodejs] header for response.writeHead() - best way to remove?

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Hahn
FWIW, I'd put that concern in the "don't optimize too early" category. My personal technique is to code the easiest way possible, see if there are speed problems (which is rare) and then fix slow parts. YMMV. I know you didn't ask my opinion, just saying. I'm sorry I can't answer your real quest

Re: [nodejs] "Standard" Test Runner for Node

2012-07-16 Thread José F . Romaniello
If I were to read a book about a language or a platform, i will have no problems to read tests written in an outdated framework as long these tests are readables and self descriptive. And I think all tests should be self descriptive ;) So in my opinion you should not choose the framework because

Re: [nodejs] "Standard" Test Runner for Node

2012-07-16 Thread Angel Java Lopez
Hmmm... in a book, I want to see: - Lightweight, something I could write and understand, for test. - Then, the "standard" That is, in other context (web applications), I want to see: - Lightweight example, using require('http') - After exploring the example and its limitations, go for connect or/

[nodejs] "Standard" Test Runner for Node

2012-07-16 Thread Alex Young
Hello, I write about Node a lot, and I often illustrate concepts using tests. However, there isn't a standard test runner for Node. So, let's say I'm writing a book about Node. I'd like to include examples using a test runner that's idiomatic, lightweight, and likely to be around in a year o

Re: [nodejs] how to release nodejs projbect in a binary executable format?

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Noordhuis
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:54 AM, 李白字一日 wrote: > I have a nodejs project, > and i want to release it in a binary executable format. > > can this idea be done? You can drop a _third_party_main.js script in the lib/ directory. It's not something we really encourage or support but it's a stepping sto

Re: [nodejs] header for response.writeHead() - best way to remove?

2012-07-16 Thread Tim Caswell
The place where I avoid delete in node code is in "class instances". (where "class" means a constructor and the "instance" is the result of using `new`) From my understanding of the VM, delete causes V8 to bail out of the hidden classes optimizations making all property lookups much slower forever

[nodejs] Re: Emacs

2012-07-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/12/2012 03:59 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Just for curiosity, who's using Emacs in here to code arround Node? What modes do you use, what configurations? Yaey! I did really expect 1-2 replies :-) I'm surprised to find more Emacs users than I expected. You made me discover a bunch

Re: [nodejs] Re: Node.js memory, GC and performance

2012-07-16 Thread Vyacheslav Egorov
There were some issues around IdleNotification that were preferring to force a full non-incremental GC. [which makes perfect sense if embedder calls IdleNotification when it is _really_idle_ for a long time, and not so much sense when it is not]. We decreased aggressiveness of that, so it might he