The other day I wanted to run a bunch of tests with a browser in a NodeJS environment. Having been spoiled by how easy it was to do in a Rails setup using Capybara, I thought it would be easy considering how everything cool is easy to do with Node! Well, I thought wrong. It’s easy once you have everything …
I made a thing: Planetside 2 minigame
Random ideas and idle hands lead from one thing to another. While waiting for the Planetside 2 (a large scale MMOFPS) beta to land, I decided to make a hex-grid of the game’s map. Once the map is complete, someone suggests it should be colored in one of the three in-game faction’s colors… then I realize, why not just let …
5 ways how PHP is better than Node.js
All hail Node.js! Boo PHP! Except there are various things where PHP is better than Node…
How to run Apache and NodeJS based sites on the same server with Varnish
While developing Battlefield 3 Web Commander, I wanted to keep it on my VPS where I was already running Apache. Of course I had the option of putting it in a non-standard port like 8080, but it wouldn’t be nice if the URL would be somedomain.com:8080. The second option was ordering an extra IP address from Linode. That would’ve cost …