This is an interesting topic – it’s really easy to argue both ways. Is it really worth installing a lot of software that will eventually slow down your machine or even open up your company’s firewall to allow certain traffic to come through on different ports?
Many IT teams might say no, but I’ll argue forever with them about always having a fully replicated local development environment!
I always enjoy doing interviews and asking potential candidates what the difference between single quotes and double quotes are in PHP. Most people have the basic understanding that single quotes are not interpreted by the compiler whereas double quotes are processed while the page is being executed. The follow up question is typically which one they prefer; this answer is always 50/50. I have always been a fan of single quotes thinking them to be faster…
After my first article on Node – My First Node Application – I setup and installed the Node server as well as the Express add-on package. In today’s article, I’m going to expand on that by creating actual output. In my research and comparison, Jade templates look quite nice.
Let’s be honest, anything that can simplify the mundane typing of HTML code and let me output my content faster is a win-win in my books!
Let’s get started.
I have the unique pleasure of being a technical reviewer for an upcoming book by a former co-worker of mine. Since it will be his second book on Node (his first being a co-author of Node Up and Running), I thought I should probably get a feel for using Node. I’ve of course read some of the documentation and have a thorough understand of JavaScript already, as well as event driven programming – working on some very large MMO projects.
I thought I would share how easy it is to really and truly get up and running with Node.
This is an excellent follow up on a recent post – Determine if an element is visible with Jquery – because in that post we use the is Jquery operator to check if an item is visible or hidden.
Spoiler alert, in this article, we can leverage the exact same function by altering the value of the selector passed into it.