Dispite many desirable properties, micro-services carry two serious penalties to be contended with: authentication (which we covered in the previous post) and Web page composition, which I intend to address now. Imagine you are writing a Node.js app and use Dust.js for the V of the MVC, as we are doing. Imagine also that several... Continue Reading →
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 →