My Train of Thought on JavaScript, Web Analytics, & Segment

Beware, this is my brain dump as I attempt to figure out Segment integrations. It might seem disconnected at first but I’ll make every effort to loop things back around. First a few pieces of context, or more simply my goals for this blog entry: 1. My goal here is to implement a server side... Continue reading →

I’m so mad!!! My response to the fork of node.js to io.js!

I’m so mad!!! No, actually I’m not. This is cool. It’s so confusing! No, it’s actually not. Use your learnings and read this Node Forward and read Max’s @maxogden “What you need to know.” gist. It’ll be so hard to test this and test with node.js. Not really, again, read the threads there are a... Continue reading →

Getting in Some Code Stylings, Looking Good for the Code Dance

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 →

More on Using the Nools DSL and Engine…

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 →

Learning “nools” Rules Engine

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 →