I gave a introduction talk to node.js at Chippewa Valley Code Camp last weekend. It was fun and had a great turnout. I found a neat idea from Esa-Matti Suuronen called geekslides where he used socket.io in conjunction with node.js to have a remote controlled slidedeck. I expanded on the idea and learned a bit from the process that I wanted to share.

Some heat has been rising around Gnome 3/Shell spurned mostly by some comments Linus Torvalds had in opposition to the updated desktop environment. This post really hasn’t much to do with Linus however (I like Linus, I use his operating system and version control system daily).

I like Gnome 3/Shell a lot and, like the Vim article I wrote, it was an adjustment from what I was used to but I think its heading in the right direction (although not perfectly). I’m not really here to convince you of a my stance though. I just want to tell you what I like about it:

I used to be a die-hard Windows guy. In fact, in Middle School, I remember advocating (e.g. doing class presentations) that Windows was indeed better than Mac. Kinda funny now since I’d take a Mac over Windows any day… but ultimately I choose Linux over both. Particularly Ubuntu w/ Gnome 3 PPA. All that to say, things change! Like OSes, I’ve changed my tune with what I use to write code.

I gave a introduction talk to NodeJS at Twin Cities Code Camp earlier this year but never posted it. It had a great turnout with a great audience which made it fun as a speaker. If you are interested, below is the slidedeck for that talk:

This is a port of my original article from Tumblr w/ some cleanup and additions.

The comma operator in JavaScript was a long time mystery to me but once I started using it I found it can be quite handy in certain situations. In this example, picking the next color out of the available six.

I think I may actually like blogging again… I have really wanted a GitHub like blog engine that just worked. I was playing around with making my own using NodeJS but recently came across Octopress and must say, it does everything I want it to and probably more.

So here’s to a new season of blogging. My old blog is still up at Tumblr but I will be posting here from now on.

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