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Using Global Variables in Node.js

Hey guys, in today's article I want to talk about global variables in Node. This article is aimed at developers who are at a beginner to intermediate skill level working with Node. If you have never heard of global variables or worked with them, no need to worry. This article...

Sam Galizia

Jun 22, 2017·8 min read

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Node.js Websocket Examples with Socket.io

Over the past few years, a new type of communication started to emerge on the web and in mobile apps, called websockets. This protocol has been long-awaited and was finally standardized by the IETF in 2011, paving the way for widespread use. This new protocol opens up a much faster...

Scott Robinson

Jan 15, 2016·7 min read

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Markdown by Example

Block Elements Paragraphs and New Lines Headers Blockquotes Lists Code Blocks Horizontal Rule Span Elements Links Emphasis Inline Code Images Misc. Escaping Automatic Linking Linking Emails As we all know, HTML has been around a long time and is used to build every website on the internet, but it's really...

Scott Robinson

Nov 30, 2015·13 min read

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How to Send an Email with boto and SES

Pretty much every user-based app and website needs to send an email to the user at some point, so eventually you'll have to deal with the joyous world of programmatic emailing. There are quite a few services popping up to help you with this, but with every app having its...

Scott Robinson

Oct 23, 2015·5 min read

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Neural Networks in JavaScript with Brain.js

Over the last few years especially, neural networks (NNs) have really taken off as a practical and efficient way of solving problems that can't be easily solved by an algorithm, like face detection, voice recognition, and medical diagnosis. This is largely thanks to recent discoveries on how to better train...

Scott Robinson

Sep 17, 2015·8 min read

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Example: Upload a File to AWS S3 with Boto

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of extremely popular set of services for websites and apps, so knowing how to interact with the various services is important. Here, we focus on the Simple Storage Service (S3), which is essentially a file store service. All files must be assigned to...

Scott Robinson

Apr 27, 2014·2 min read

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Example: Apache Camel with Blueprint

Here we present a fully-working Apache Camel Blueprint project. It provides example code for building routes, creating beans, and deploying to ServiceMix with Blueprint. In short, Blueprint is much like Spring. Really, its a lot like Spring, but with slight differences. The Blueprint Container specification was created by the OSGi...

Scott Robinson

Apr 17, 2014·4 min read

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Example: REST Service with Apache Camel

With the extreme prevalence of mobile apps, web apps, and desktop apps, REST services are more important than ever to provide data to it's users. This data could be used for the native app, or for 3rd party developers to expand your service's reach in to other apps. Either way,...

Scott Robinson

Feb 08, 2014·2 min read

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Regex: Splitting by Character, Unless in Quotes

Many times when you're parsing text you find yourself needing to split strings on a comma character (or new lines, tabs, etc.), but then what if you needed to use a comma in your string and not split on it? An example of this could be a large number. So...

Scott Robinson

Sep 22, 2013·2 min read