May 2010
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V8 Development Introduction →
April 2010
8 posts
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Express vs Sinatra Benchmarks
So I have been setting up benchmark scripts for Express today, and so far some of the results have been quite interesting! The numbers shown should be taken lightly, however they consistently show that Express is quite fast.
If you are interested in benchmarking your own web applications you might want to read my last article ApacheBench Gnuplot Graphing Benchmarks.
All of the following...
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ApacheBench GnuPlot Graphing Benchmarks
In this post I am going to be showing you how you can get set up creating http benchmark graphs using Gnuplot and ApacheBench. The ApacheBench or ab executable is packaged with Apache’s httpd, however it can be installed stand-alone as well from Google Code.
The Application
First things first, below we have an insanely simple NodeJS application, that will respond with the string Hello...
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NodeJS Package Manager
If you use node you may have heard of the Kiwi Package Manager, if not its simply a package management system for node modules. Although development of kiwi is still early, its already 100% usable and available to the community.
Installing Packages (seeds)
Kiwi’s packages aka seeds, are simply tarballs abstracted using the extension “.seed”. Installing the latest version of a...
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V8 Cookbook →
How I Made $2000 Writing An eBook
Roughly one month ago I wrote Advanced JavaScript, a $4, 60 page eBook written using XML and DocBook.
The main reason I went with DocBook was because I could control syntax highlighting for code snippits, however there are other benefits as well such as outputting several formats like ePub, PDF, etc. I would recommend against this unless you have large snippits of code, because it can take some...
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Node Version Manager Preview
The Node Version Manager or nvm is a bash script for installing, and switching releases of NodeJS so that you can test your libraries (or deploy) using any release you need.
Tim (creationix) just started this library earlier today, so I forked away and started adding features and refactoring existing code. Currently to use my changes you have to clone my refactor branch:
$ git clone...
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Express 0.9.0 released
A few minutes ago Express was released, packed with tons of bug fixes and features.
Installation
As always Express can be installed via the Kiwi package manager for NodeJS using one simple command:
$ kiwi install express
Alternatively you can Download a tarball, or install via Git:
$ git clone git://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
$ cd express && git submodule update...
Holy Fuck I Have A Blog!
Well I officially have a blog now, for those of you who have no clue who I am my name is TJ Holowaychuk and I work for Ext JS. I love open source! I have over 170 followers on Github and roughly 50 open source projects ranging from JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, to C and C++.
Currently my most popular open source libraries are the following:
JSpec JavaScript BDD framework
Express NodeJS web...
