Book Review: Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll be reviewing the eBook version of Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile authored by Shane Gliser and published by Packtpub. You can check out Shane’s blog here.

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Tutorial: Your first ASP.NET SignalR project

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today we will go over the steps to get up and running with SignalR. SignalR is an open-source .NET library for building web applications that require live user interaction or real-time data updates. We will build a cheesy Twitter clone called HalfTwit which will take 70 characters and share the comment for everyone else to see in real-time. I think you’ll find SignalR to be pretty slick and easy to use.

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Project Meniscus: Logging-as-a-Service for the Cloud (built with Python)

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Chad Lung

OpenStack Portland is currently underway and our team lead will be presenting on Thursday afternoon an introduction and overview of Project Meniscus to the OpenStack attendees.

Out teams hopes to get Project Meniscus into OpenStack incubator status so right from the start we’ve been using OpenStack software components like Oslo Logging, Oslo-Config, the same Python modules that other OpenStack projects use as well as and OpenStack best practices (we are learning as we go along).

I’m going to take this time to do an update on what we are working on and how others can get involved.

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Getting started with Multiprocessing in Python

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Chad Lung

Multiprocessing in Python is pretty easy given the amount of work Python is doing for you behind the scenes. Today I’ll show you a few example to get started with Python 2.7.x multiprocessing.

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Book Review: PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll be reviewing the eBook version of PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development authored by Kerri Shotts and published by Packtpub.

PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development

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Getting started with the Falcon Framework (using Python)

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll show you how to get started with Falcon. What is Falcon? Well, to quote from the GitHub repo for Falcon: “Falcon is a really fast, light-weight framework for building cloud APIs. It tries to do as little as possible while remaining highly effective“. Falcon was created by Kurt Griffiths and he is the current project maintainer. If you want to help out on the project Kurt has stated that pull requests are welcome.

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Book Review: CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’m going to review the ebook version of CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js authored by Michael Erasmus and published my Packtpub.

CoffeeScript Programming with jQuery, Rails, and Node.js Book

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Using Python to build a web project using jQuery (AJAX) and Flask

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Chad Lung

I’m working on a new project where I need to have a dashboard fetch updates on a regular basis from it’s host server. I decided to use Flask which is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2 (a template engine). Today I’ll show you a simple project to have a webpage communicate to the server via AJAX using jQuery.

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Easily learn the Strategy Design Pattern with Java – a second visit

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Chad Lung

The Strategy design pattern allows you to select algorithms at runtime. The Strategy pattern is a behavioural pattern and sometimes you will see it used in things like validation, sorting or where a large switch statement has been replaced – just to name a few.

I’ve written previously on the strategy design pattern however, for today’s article I wanted to re-visit this often overlooked pattern and present it in another way.

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Tutorial: Embedded JavaScript templates (EJS) and Node.js

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Chad Lung

There are several ways to create web applications with Node.js. One popular way is to use Jade. Today, I’ll show you how to use EJS (Embedded JavaScript templates) with Node.js to create a simple web application. If you’ve used PHP or classic ASP then this will probably look very familiar.

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