Tag: General Programming

• Node.js Isn’t The Solution You’re Looking For

  • General Programming
  • JavaScript
  • node.js

  node.js‘s popularity isn’t without it’s reasons. node.js is lightweight, it’s mature and it has enough packages in the npm repository to make you start wondering if you’ll ever learn enough tools to become a half decent developer.

  If you know JavaScript, you just need to know a bit about the node.js event loop and the node.js standard library and maybe express and you’re pretty much a decent node.js developer.

  But it’s definitely not without it’s drawbacks.

  Read more... 1st July 2018

• Your Application Isn’t Your Domain

  • General Programming
  • Microservice

  When laying out your solution, it’s important to have a clear separation between your application and your domain. In most areas that I see, the application is either a Web API or a web application.

  What does this actually mean?

  Read more... 30th June 2018

• Code Isn’t Everything

  • General Programming

  During the earlier years of programming, you may think that coding is the most significant part of writing software. Fast-forward to the future, you realise that code isn’t the main problem. It’s the things that happen before and in-between writing code – solving the problem at hand.

  Read more... 18th June 2018

• From Shared Hosting to Linode

  • Cloud
  • General Programming
  • Hosting
  • Server Admin

  So, it’s finally happened. I’ve decided to move my blog onto linode to check what all the fuss was about with their $5/month offering. I’ve been quite curious as to how much performance I can get for $5, my current shared hosting solution with tsohost is OK, but it’s not great…

  For $5/month, you get 1GB RAM and 1 Core CPU (whatever that means). What does that really mean for us, coming from shared hosting?

  Read more... 29th April 2018