Book Review: Instant Mock testing with PowerMock
I was recently asked to review “Instant Mock testing with PowerMock” by PacktPub. Part of their “instant” series which aims to get you up and running with a project quickly. My review follows. This...
View ArticleProtecting node.js from BEAST TLS attack
Copyright Disney, I don’t think they’ll sue me. Thanks for the image. After reading Eric Martindale‘s very useful blog post on “Mitigating TLS BEAST attack in node.js” I decided to implement this for...
View ArticleXMPP-FTW now supports Superfeedr
Summary As of version 0.9.0 xmpp-ftw now supports the Superfeedr XMPP API. If you don’t know what Superfeedr is then read this shamelessly stolen description from Crunchbase: Superfeedr fetches and...
View ArticleExpose github README.md at a path using express middleware
I’ve just published the first version of a new middleware package I’ve written to expose your project’s README.md via express. To install simply run: npm i --save express-middleware-readme.md At its...
View ArticleTalking at the first XMPPUK Event – March 2013
We had the inaugural XMPP/realtime meetup held at Mozilla London on the 13th March which was sponsored by my employer Surevine. At Surevine we believe that XMPP has a very important place in the future...
View ArticleTalking at London Node User Group (LNUG) – Feburary 2013
At the Feburary London Node User Group (LNUG) I had a chance to speak about one of my new projects pinitto.me. Pinitto.me is an open source infinite virtual corkboard application that I created over a...
View ArticleInstall a better version of GIT on Amazon EC2 default instance
I was doing some development on an Amazon default EC2 instance and wanted to commit some changes back to a repository using `git commit -p`, flag ‘-p’ not recognised, boo! Turns out the default version...
View ArticleAn error has occurred: {“bytesParsed”:0,”code”:”HPE_INVALID_CONSTANT”}
From bdc.co.uk I’ve been writing a new application in Nodejs, using websockets (socket.io), this application is deployed using the PaaS Nodejitsu. Everything has been going great and I’ve been...
View ArticleRealtime and XMPP in Portland, Oregon
At the end of October I got a chance to attend the awesome Realtime conference 2012 as well as the XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon. It was an immense week and I had the chance to meet some great...
View ArticleRunning your own open federated social network from your home for just $25
What is the RaspberryPi? Raspberry Pi image from wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi The Raspberry Pi is a small (credit card) sized computer which costs around the £25 mark....
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