Level Up Using Async / Await with the MEAN Stack
This post details a new feature in Node.js that make callbacks and promise libraries like Bluebird and co a thing of the past. All of »
ES6 Learning Notes - Asynchronous Development
Callbacks The most basic form of async programming in JS is the callback. The caller spawns an asynchronous operation. When the caller initiates this process, it »
ES6 Learning Notes - Built In Objects
New Array Changes ES6 has added several new functions to Array instances. find Find the first member whose value is greater than 8: var ary = [1, »
ES6 Learning Notes - Functional JavaScript
Arrow Functions Arrow functions introduce a concise syntax for defining a function. Example: let add = (x,y) => x + y; add(3,5); // 8 On the »
ES6 Learning Notes - Classes
Classes In the old way of writing classes, a constructor function and a prototype object that all instances would inherit from had to be created. This »
ES6 Learning Notes - Variables and Parameters
The let Keyword let allows us to define variables in a different way than var. With var there are two types of scope: global when the »
Continuous Deployment with Codeship and Dokku
The following steps will help you successfully deploy from Codeship to Dokku. This will not take long to implement. You only need the public ssh key »
Awesome JavaScript Libraries Worth Checking Out
Awesome JavaScript A collection of awesome browser-side Javascript libraries, resources and shiny things. Awesome JavaScript Package Managers Loaders Bundlers Testing Frameworks QA Tools MVC Frameworks and »
My Private Continuous Integration Platform
**2/9/17 Edit: Drone has deprecated their hosted version and is still available on GitHub and DigitalOcean. DevOps is changing at an impressive speed, and »
What Is a DevOps Engineer?
DevOps is a dynamic, rapidly evolving space—and a clear understanding of DevOps is vital to keeping application development projects competitive within the organization. How have »
Retrospective: State of DevOps in 2015
DevOps is one of the hottest trends in IT, but it is also one of the most ill-defined trends in the market. While vendors, analysts, consultants »
Intro to Containers, Docker and Microservices
An introduction to containers, microservices and Docker. One of the great benefits of Microservices and a Service Oriented Architecture, or SOA is the ability to deploy »
CSS Tools and Resources
CSSmatic In Alejandro Sánchez Blanes own words "CSSmatic is a new, simple and intuitive way of editing and tunning CSS properties. We are designers and we »
AWS EC2 Automation Using Bash Scripts
These bash scripts will allow you to automagically SSH into newly provisioned EC2 containers on AWS, as well as terminate instances and commit to GitHub with »
Bitnami, Docker and Ghost - Setting up a Blog
Introduction In this tutorial, we will use Bitnami containers to run the Ghost blogging platform, taking advantage of Docker features such as linking and volumes. node »