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Running 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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Realtime 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...
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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 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 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 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 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 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...
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Protecting 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...
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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...
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