The Year of Blogging Dangerously

Wow, has it been a year already? I am faking surprise, of course, because WordPress has notified me well ahead of time that I need to renew my dejanglozic.com domain. So in actuality I said 'wow, will it soon be a year of me blogging'. Nevertheless, the sentiment is genuine. It may be worthwhile to... Continue Reading →

Release the Kraken.js – Part I

Of course when you're a kid, you can be friends with anybody. [...] You like Cherry Soda? I like Cherry Soda! We'll be best friends! Jerry Seinfeld We learned from Rene Zellweger that sometimes you can have people at "Hello". In case of myself and the project Kraken.js, it had me at "Node.js/express.js/Dust.js/jQuery/Require.js/Bootstrap". OK, not fit for a memorable... Continue Reading →

Dust.js: Such Templating

Last week I started playing with Node.js and LinkedIn's fork of Dust.js for server side templating. I think I am beginning to see the appeal that made LinkedIn choose Dust.js over a number of alternatives. Back when LinkedIn had a templating throwdown and chose Dust.js, they classified it in the 'logic-less' group, in contrast to the... Continue Reading →

On the LinkedIn’s Dusty Trail

There is an old New Yorker cartoon (from 1993) where a dog working on the computer tells another dog: "On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog". That's how I occasionally feel about the GitHub projects - they could be solid, multi-contributor powerhouses churning out release after release, and there could be great ideas... Continue Reading →

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