I’ve had this question come up a few times recently, and I wanted to get everybody’s take on it… when you write BDD style tests, what practice do you prefer? …I’ll have a follow up to this poll in a few days and explain some of my own reasoning to the whole situation. Continue reading →

In every language there are opinions about how to format code. With JavaScript, the community abounds with opinions about how the code should look, how variables are declared, whether there should be semi-colons to end each statement, spaces before or after parenthesis, and more than I care to list in a simply worded paragraph like... Continue reading →

Nools Objects In the helloworld.nools object there is a single object defined called Message. This object has two elements defined; the text property and the constructor. The specific object definition is shown below. define Message { text : ”, constructor : function(message){ this.text = message; } } This object can now be referred … Continue reading →

Recently I sat down to work up a solution around a rules engine. There were a few things I noticed right off. When there is a request to implement or build a rules engine it is very often (I’m guessing a solid 40-60% of the time) reasoned that there is a need solely based on... Continue reading →

Recently I did a series for New Relic on three frameworks, both for APIs and web apps. I titled it “Evaluating Node.js Frameworks: hapi.js, Restify, and Geddy” and it is available via the New Relic Blog. To check out those frameworks give that blog entry a read, then below I’ve added one more framework to... Continue reading →