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My Programming Heroes: Douglas Crockford

By On January 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

JavaScript is a language that people would use without learning it first, which is by mistake that
you would not make in other language – Douglas Crockford

I’m a huge fan of Douglas Crockford, and that has a lot to do with how I learned JavaScript. Like many web developers, [...]

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Per-Route Response Caching in Lithium PHP

By On October 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Occasionally, you will want to cache entire responses from different areas of your Lithium app. Micheal N already posted a nice tip about response caching by applying a filter to the Dispatcher::run() method, but I wanted to be able to set my cache times differently per route. Now in keeping with the aspect-oriented [...]

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Unit Testing Models with Phactory and PHPUnit

By On June 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

PHPUnit, although exceptional in so many aspects, is somewhat lacking when it comes to database testing. Testing models in with PHPUnit usually requires you to set up cumbersome XML files for fixtures and your are stuck with them for the entire testcase. I am going to show you how to [...]

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Building your first node.js app – Part 3: View-Controller pattern w/ Mustache

By On June 9, 2011 · 19 Comments

In part 2 of my node.js tutorial, we built the web server and created a dispatcher to handle the incoming client browser requests and route them to actions. In part 3 of this series,  I cover refactoring our Node app into separate node modules and components. I am also introducing the [...]

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Building your first node.js app – Part 2: Building the web server and request dispatcher

By On May 30, 2011 · 13 Comments

In my part 1 of my node tutorial, I talked about getting Node up and running with cygwin. Now in part 2, I am going to show you how to implement a basic web server and request dispatcher. In Node, we are responsible for creating much of the low level functionality [...]

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