A Simple gulp Plugin

A Simple gulp Plugin

gulp is the new black. It’s quickly supplanting Grunt for JavaScript builds because it’s faster and simpler. When we replaced our Gruntfile with a gulpfile on one of our projects, our build script sped up by an order of magnitude and became much more...
JavaScript Isolation with Nodeenv

JavaScript Isolation with Nodeenv

I do a lot of Python work, and I’m a huge fan of virtualenv, which allows you to set up a completely isolated Python environment. This is hugely helpful to keep various dependencies from multiple projects from clobbering one another. It’s so helpful, that...
Meteor: Working with Accounts

Meteor: Working with Accounts

In my last blog post I had just discovered the Meteor JavaScript-based web application platform. I have had a little more time to play with it and I am still having a lot of fun with it. On a personal project I was working on, I needed to add user accounts. The...