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I just discovered a great plugin, called Zemanta. The miracle it does is helping you a lot with your content creation while creating a blog post. What to do? 0. Install the Zemanta plugin from Firefox repo. 1. Open your wordpress blog and start writing something. Let’s say about SOPA and how dangerous it is … Read more
Often when discussing OSGi at events, conferences or forums, we hear things like, “Yeah, I like JRebel but now we are using OSGi”, or “Does JRebel support OSGi”, or “Isn’t OSGi the same as JRebel?”. Sometimes it happens that people start comparing OSGi to JRebel, which is kind of like comparing a Ferrari to a … Read more
Finding a way to stimulate/encourage your community to do stuff can be a very difficult task. I will show you an Agile-like approach to do that and actually it works pretty well, but remember: Don’t try to control your community, try to manage it. Create the infrastructure Get an account in Trello. Define your basic … Read more
Velocity Conference is an that is in my check list since …forever. This year the event comes to Europe and unfortunately I will not be able to attend, because I have another event scheduled at the almost same time. If you’re web person this event is a must attend event :) Velocity Europe is the … Read more
There is a big challenge to make MongoDB driver to work with Node.js, but here is an cool and working example to do that: Require: var mongodb = require(“mongodb”); //require node-mongodb-native var settings = require(‘./mconfig’); //for settings Connect to the admin database: var mongoserver = new mongodb.Server(settings.mongo_host, settings.mongo_port, {}); admindb = new mongodb.Db(‘admin’, mongoserver); Try … Read more
I will show you now, how to write a simple HTTPS JSON REST server using node.js components. Grab a beer, open your IDE and let’s start hacking. 0. Create certificates. If you don’t have valid https certificates, you can generate one for testing purposes. If you need one cool certificate, you can join cacert community. … Read more
