Category Archives: Open Source

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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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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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 … Continue reading →

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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.

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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 … Continue reading →

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A developer’s take on the OpenStack Summit (2012 San Diego)

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Chad Lung

I recently returned from San Diego after attending the OpenStack Summit. Estimates are that 1300-1400+ people attended the summit. Most times the conference rooms had standing room only. All the vendors kept busy and I have to give special kudos … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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An easy tutorial on using callbacks in Node.js

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Chad Lung

In a previous post I showed you how to use the EventEmitter to give a notification when a webpage had been downloaded (or ran into an error). Today I’ll show you the same project but using a callback instead.

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