6 Weeks Later
In my last post, I talked about deploying my first app, CrowdNotes, to Nodejitsu. Since then, I have actually managed to get to where I wanted to be when I first talked about transitioning into web development! I’m SUPER pumped…
Deploying to Nodejitsu
Hurray! I’m ready to deploy CrowdNotes! (Is it done? No. Are apps ever done? No. Is it good enough to at least push it out into the world? Absolutely!) With that in mind, last night I asked really nicely for…
MVC FTW!
I love it when I get stuff working after banging my head against a table for a lot longer than I would have liked. It’s super satisfying. As I mentioned in my last post, I came to the point a…
Transitioning from Mongoose-Auth to Passport for Authentication in Node.js
Up until about a week ago, I was using Mongoose-Auth, when I decided my app needed some cleaning up. For most simple Node.js apps, it makes sense to route everything through your app.js (or server.js, depending on your preference/framework) file….
Baby Steps, My Friend. Baby Steps.
Overwhelmed by opportunity. Paralyzed by possibility. For some people, there are so many options out there that it’s hard to make a decision. In some projects, it’s easy to analyze a project to death before getting started. The problem is…
Mobile First
As I continue to think about the design of CrowdNotes, I think back on a podcast I heard some time ago, wherein Jeffrey Zeldman described the (then) latest A Book Apart offering, Mobile First. The book, written by Luke Wroblewski,…
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