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Jul 9, 2014 Book recommendations for Java Developers
Although there are plenty of articles and blog posts on the topics included in the following books, I still find books are a far more effective way to learn for a number of reasons.
Jul 4, 2014 Geo Searching using Mongodb and Spring Data
Using Spring Data and Spring Boot, it is possible to very quickly make applications which perform CRUD operations and perform complex searches on database.
May 23, 2013 Command Line Applications in Node.js
Node.js is a powerful language and can be used for many different purposes, not just server side applications. For example using its built in readline library you can interact with the user on the command line. This library is powerful and easy to use, for example using the question function will display text to the user and wait for their input, when the user has returned some data callback is then called. Using this I was able to create a simple (and not very fun) guessing game in about 5 minutes.
Apr 22, 2013 Changing the Console log colour in Node.js
Changing the text colour in a console.log message in Node.js is very simple, you can do it by using ANSI escape codes for example:
Apr 16, 2013 Continuous Testing in Node.js
Using nodemon it is possible to monitor a directory for changes to files and run a specific file on any change.
Nov 25, 2012 Rabbit Pi
After recently getting a RaspberryPI board I decided to investigate controlling it via AMQP.