Re: [nodejs] Mongo vs. Couch vs. LevelDB ?

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Ashton
This is a very broad question to be asking, and sounds dangerously like "please do all my research and make my decisions for me". They are all rather different things, and spending 30 minutes looking at each would tell you that and narrow your question down to something more reasonably answerable.

Re: [nodejs] simple prototype for easier re-factoring and re-organization of projects

2013-03-08 Thread Rob Ashton
This might be helpful to some people, but I'd hazard caution - my experience has been that a lot of relative path requires tells me that I've got a pile of modules screaming to get out :) On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Boris Filipov wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've created a simple prototype tool fo

Re: [nodejs] David - a tool to help you manage your node project dependencies - http://david-dm.org

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Ashton
Ooh, I've not seen police before - I'll be using that On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:15, Martin Wawrusch wrote: So it is basically an online version of police ( https://github.com/pksunkara/npm-police). Good idea, I would love to see it for private github and bitbucket repos though. On Thu, Jan 31, 201

[nodejs] I done made a little tool

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Ashton
I couldn't find something to do this, so I wrote one - or maybe it's only me who suffers the problem of working on a dozen modules at the same time (or offline more the case), and then not knowing which need pushing, committing, versioning, publishing etc when I come online again. I pulled togethe

Re: [nodejs] Re: Javascript Class Specification for the next generation of JS class system, hope to discuss with you.

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Ashton
I don't even.. Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jan 2013, at 04:44, tjholowaychuk wrote: > OO is super flawed > > On Jan 30, 3:15 am, fengchun.ch...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi, Senior JS fans >> >> I am a senior Java/JS developer about 12 year+. I recently wrote a >> specification named JCS. The goal of t

Re: [nodejs] Re: Javascript Class Specification for the next generation of JS class system, hope to discuss with you.

2013-01-30 Thread Rob Ashton
Hi Fengchun - these are not problems you are describing, but features in your JCS specification. It might be useful to us if you described the problems you had that led to the creation of these features, in order to better understand why they now exist. Thanks :-) On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12

Re: [nodejs] [ANN] Tetris in color

2012-09-27 Thread Rob Ashton
Hah That's cool, kept me occupied for at least five minutes which is probably a record for npm module announcements on this list ;) Rob On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Mathias Buus Madsen wrote: > Tetris in color in your terminal using node: > >https://github.com/mafintosh/tetris > > Tha

Re: [nodejs] Re: Which PaaS for a CPU heavy game?

2012-09-25 Thread Rob Ashton
bring the CPU up to your tolerance limits then you can use this as a guide for using their per-user scaling settings. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Rob Ashton wrote: > I'll second this, but with the knowledge that if you're doing a > synchronous time-step based simulation

Re: [nodejs] Re: Which PaaS for a CPU heavy game?

2012-09-25 Thread Rob Ashton
I'll second this, but with the knowledge that if you're doing a synchronous time-step based simulation and just using the server version of this to be the 'master' in decision making then know you can end up with JS with 'heavy' CPU use on the server. Providing this CPU is spread out over the frame

Re: [nodejs] Node summer camp ticket for free

2012-08-28 Thread Rob Ashton
I'm afraid it has gone already (pending a response from Mikeal) Sorry! Rob On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:19 AM, codepilot Account wrote: > What info do you need? > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:49 AM, codepilot Account wrote: > >> Can I have it? >> >> >> On

[nodejs] Node summer camp ticket for free

2012-08-27 Thread Rob Ashton
first case and can actually make it (I don't want my space going to waste), my ticket is going for *free*, you just need to be the first to reply to this e-mail so we can exchange details and I can pass the relevant info back to Mikeal. Cheers, Rob Ashton http://twitter.com/robashton --

Re: [nodejs] What the hell is travis4all?

2012-08-23 Thread Rob Ashton
Not sure if troll or... On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Marak Squires wrote: > I was wondering why Github sent me 50 emails today all starting with "Hello, > ladies..." > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Arnout Kazemier wrote: > >> It's using the NPM registery in alphabetical order as all f

Re: [nodejs] Re: Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-29 Thread Rob Ashton
Haha, nicely put - I think also that code that is easy and non brittle to change is much preferable than some of the designs that bad usage of IOC containers leads towards Not that I am suggesting this is what the OP wants, just where it may lead. :) Sent from my iPhone On 29 Jul 2012, at 18:23

Re: [nodejs] Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-29 Thread Rob Ashton
Oh, and apologies to everybody that I even linked to a GoF related article on a node mailing list, I'll try not to do this again in the near future. On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Rob Ashton wrote: > And I don't think the problem boils down to stubbing out the require > sys

Re: [nodejs] Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-29 Thread Rob Ashton
node-sandboxed<https://github.com/felixge/node-sandboxed-module> > works > > @Rob Ashton For a unit test I don't really want to be hitting an > external environment. A good example is if you make a http call to another > api, at the unit test level you just want to make

Re: [nodejs] Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-29 Thread Rob Ashton
s not it is not necessarily the best > technique for javascript. > > @Oliver Leics that looks a bit like how > node-sandboxed<https://github.com/felixge/node-sandboxed-module> > works > > @Rob Ashton For a unit test I don't really want to be hitting an > external

Re: [nodejs] Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-28 Thread Rob Ashton
you dependency injection and IoC. We use it a lot in >> flatiron, it's pretty sweet. >> >> --Josh >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Rob Ashton >> wrote: >> > Yeah, sorry >> > >> > Not a real developer, never worked on a real pr

Re: [nodejs] Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Ashton
-served-yui3.html And yes, once you have had the pleasure of using it on non-trivial apps you miss it dearly when dealing with the ad-hoc structured or 'good enough rolled' alternatives. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Martin Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Rob As

Re: [nodejs] Introduction to libuv

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Ashton
NICE, Haven't clicked through yet due to being on the phone but this sounds like a great effort! Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jul 2012, at 19:15, Nikhil Marathe wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have been working on a sort of libuv guide book - 'An introduction > to libuv' for the past few days. > You can

Re: [nodejs] Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Ashton
Do we need dependency injection in nodejs? Well - if you mean dependency injection literally, we have it already, it looks like this function doSomething(dependency) { } doSomething(new FooDependency()) or doSomething(new BarDependency()) or var Animal = function(vocals) { this.vocals = vo

Re: [nodejs] NodeConf SummerCamp

2012-07-26 Thread Rob Ashton
It's an un-conference, which means that it'll be decided ad-hoc, there isn't really an up front agenda/schedule save from 'turn up on this day' and 'leave on this day' The best thing about this event is that it's chilled, small, and more about the discussion and meeting folk than having uni-direct

Re: [nodejs] NodeConf SummerCamp

2012-07-26 Thread Rob Ashton
I'll be doing likewise Duncan, My plans are to hopefully spend a day or two at some start-up somewhere pairing with somebody on something and hopefully learning something (if anybody is interested in having me let me know) Apart from that, I can recommend hanging out at wine bars, more wine bars,

Re: [nodejs] NodeConf SummerCamp

2012-07-25 Thread Rob Ashton
If you like foursquare, you should go Really, Come be a part of our community and put a ball to your face :-) On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Nuno Job wrote: > If you like node, you should go. > > Really. > > Come be part of our community and put a face to your name :) > > > On Wed, Jul 25,

[nodejs] NPM and Optional Dependencies and Etiquette

2012-07-10 Thread Rob Ashton
Hey, We encountered some fun times with Zombie today, which has dependencies listed of "dependencies": { "eventsource": "~0.0.5", "html5": "~0.3.8", "jsdom": "=0.2.14", "mime": "~1.2.5", "ms": "~0.1.0", "q": "~0.8.4", "request": "~2.9.202", "tough-cookie": "~0.9.

Re: [nodejs] devil's advocate: why would I choose nodejs over MVC + IIS?

2012-07-04 Thread Rob Ashton
*The real question is why wouldn't you want a piece of that?* * * As an enterprise monkey, I can see that most people don't - they want to drag and drop some web services onto a form control and if it doesn't work, find somebody who knows more about framework 'x' to spend time debugging it. That m

Re: [nodejs] devil's advocate: why would I choose nodejs over MVC + IIS?

2012-07-04 Thread Rob Ashton
Hi, This is wrong IIS might have a thread pool but has also had the ability to do non-blocking IO for years The default behaviour of ASP.NET and associated frameworks and the developers using these tools has been to use all the synchronous functionalities available and ignore this - but it is

Re: [nodejs] Re: OOP in node.js

2012-05-22 Thread Rob Ashton
Not sure why we need anything other than a flat hierarchy of objects in order to do OOP... On 22 May 2012, at 21:53, Duncan Gmail wrote: Not sure about using OOP instead of functional. But leaving that aside, what differentiates this from the Server-side MooTools? On 22 May 2012, at 18:07, Jeff

Re: [nodejs] Sharing code between client and server

2012-05-08 Thread Rob Ashton
See browserify requirejs stitch everything else under 'module loader' There is a thread somewhere a week or so ago with a list of these in them, I personally just use RequireJS even though it isn't cool On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Robert Chris Bang Larsen < rob...@komogvind.dk> wrote: > Hi

Re: [nodejs] Amazon AWS S3 SDK / Library?

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Ashton
s on node 0.6 with no problems. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 27, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Rob Ashton wrote: > > " Not outdated :), developed for node 0.2.x " > > (Last commit is 5 months ago) > > That's a joke right? :P > > Rob > > On Fri, Apr

Re: [nodejs] Amazon AWS S3 SDK / Library?

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Ashton
rirangan> | Review19<http://review19.com> > "Make > better decisions" > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Rob Ashton wrote: > >> https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum >> >> This is quite active >> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:53 A

Re: [nodejs] Amazon AWS S3 SDK / Library?

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Ashton
https://github.com/appsattic/node-awssum This is quite active On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Srirangan wrote: > Hi, > > Search on NNPM didn't get me any results. > > Is there a well maintained Amazon AWS S3 library / SDK for Node.js? > > If not, I'll be building one. Will probably end up usi

Re: [nodejs] Autoescaping as default?

2012-04-10 Thread Rob Ashton
It is a non-question, because node itself doesn't make any decisions over this stuff So the answer to your question is "It depends which template engine you are using" On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:03 PM, akira wrote: > Is the content rendered in templates autoecasped by default? Does it > depend o

Re: [nodejs] Node.js IDE for iPad

2012-04-08 Thread Rob Ashton
I try c9 from time to time, but it has serious quality issues and there is *always* some show stopping bug within 10 minutes of logging in. Keen to hear of viable alternatives On 8 Apr 2012, at 08:31, Srirangan wrote: Ryan, You can probably evaluate the many browser based IDEs. Cloud9IDE (htt

Re: [nodejs] OOP Sample

2012-04-01 Thread Rob Ashton
I only thought of this last night, but the little project I am doing for a 48 hour game jam is kinda OO based, although with very shallow dependency graphs (so no useful DI patterns there), and with a bit of inheritance of a sort (not sure if underscore extend really counts, but it is generally all

Re: [nodejs] Secure distribution of NodeJS applications

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Ashton
I thought snapshots also included the source code - at least that was my understanding from a previous thread on the same matter? On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 16:56, Jeremy Rudd > wrote: > > What: Can NodeJS apps be distributed as binary? ie. y