Joe is CEO of Subwoofr, a platform that helps music artists make more money. He is the author of HTML5 in Action and Beginning CouchDB, and is a regular contributor to IBM developerWorks.
Express is a popular Node module that simplifies the development of Web applications. It is comparable to Ruby's Sinatra framework and Python's Flask framework in that it makes it simple to respond to HTTP requests at defined endpoints and serve up responses,…
Node.js (Node) is an application runtime that enables you to develop JavaScript applications that run out of the browser. To get started with Node, download and install it - you can find relevant instructions for your platform at https://nodejs.org. When it i…
This post is an article I wrote about a month back, and was originally published on the ePubDirect website. It seems like the entire world is talking about eBook subscription services right now. Since news of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited service, there has bee…
Today I am launching an intensive, 3 hour online training course that guides through the process of building and deploying a Node.js application from scratch. The course walks through building an app using the increasingly popular MEAN stack - MongoDB, Express…
A few years ago, I was contacted by someone in Gilt Groupe about a potential role in their front-end engineering team in Dublin. At the time I was happy in my Product Manager role in Core and was routinely ignoring similar emails from recruitment agencies and…
In ePubDirect, our platform is built on a .NET technology stack. As a Mac guy, the thought of spending most of my time in Windows gives me shivers, so I've spent a little time looking into how to work on .NET on a Mac. The open source Mono project is a relati…
In this article, you will learn how to build a simple Node.js application and deploy it to IBM's BlueMix platform. BlueMix makes it easy to deploy your apps into production, and provides a variety of services that simplify common tasks such as data storage, c…
One of the side projects I'm currently working on is a quick online ONIX for Books file validator utility. The tool is built using Node.js and Express, and I quickly ran into an issue with handling file uploads. Searching Google didn't help all that much, par…
I love technology books. Ever since I was a kid I have loved the in-depth coverage and detail offered by books in my industry. I still remember picking up a copy of UNIX Unleashed for about £6 when I was in school and lugging it home in my backpack. The book…
This evening I received a familiar phone call about my account with an investment fund company. It starts off with a friendly greeting, explaining the purpose of the call and asking if I have the time to talk about my account. After I said that I could, the ve…