Leaving Callback Hell with Promises and ES7 async/await

Cross post from my employer's development blog: http://rootinc.github.io/2016/01/14/callback-hell/

Slides and code from my talk for the Toledo Web Proffessionals on 1/13/2016. It was a quick overview of how Promises in ES6 and async/await in ES7 can allow for much cleaner JavaScript coding.

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Quick Deepstream.io Setup Using JSPM

Cross post from my employer's development blog: http://rootinc.github.io/2016/02/12/deepstream-jspm/
Want to use JSPM rather than Bower for running the Deepstream.io example? Follow these steps. This is basically a duplicate of the [Getting Started tutorial][tutorial] on the [Deepstream.io website][website] but using a really simple JSPM setup. This is a very crude guide where I list everything I had to do to get things running.

Create an empty project folder npm install deepstream.io Copy server code verbatim from the Getting Started guide jspm install npm:deepstream.io-client-js Hit enter for all the prompts from JSPM

We’re going to modify the client side code a little bit. We have native support for ES6 compiling with JSPM/Babel so we can import the Deepstream client directly:

import deepstream from 'deepstream.io-client-js'; let ds = deepstream( 'localhost:6020' ).login();

let record = ds.record.getRecord( 'someUser' );

let input = document.querySelector( 'inp…

Atari E3 2004 PAL digital press kit

Making note of some old swag. The Atari E3 2004 PAL digital press kit. See video for details.

Accessing other HTTP servers on Cloud 9 IDE

If you're using Cloud 9 to do development, you'll quickly realize that only ports 8080 through 8082 are available to the outside world from your development box. This is generally not an issue as you can set your application to bind to the $PORT environment variable when in development mode. However, there are sometimes other servers that we want to make use of that host on different default ports.

I recently had to setup a Neo4j server which defaults the admin interface of port 7474. Unfortunately, I could not access the admin interface even through the IDE based web browser window. So, what to do? I could change the default server settings so that it runs on a different port. However, the app I'm working on with a team has 7474 hard-coded and I currently don't feel like writing a local only work-around.

After some searching, I ran across a neat Linux tool called socat. This allows us to easily forward one port to another. After a quick install via apt-get, I ran the …

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