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Choose the right javascript mvc framework

Javascript Mvc frameworks is the latest hype in development world. Except Backbone and Knockout that are around two years out there, there are plenty more. I am sure you don’t want to miss this train so jump into this well written article by  Craig McKeachie. He

Free programming books!

One of the best repositories in Github is this one. As you can see, you can find hundreds of books completely free! From c# and asp.net to windows 8 and linux are all there waiting for you. I am visiting often this repo, because it

Salvaging LCDs

Most of electronic devices are not build to last for ever, and you can see that by visiting your local recycling area for electronic waste. But there are many parts in lets say a printer that the makers can salvage. Personally when I have free

Dan Wahlin Weekly Newsletter – #4

Dan is on of my favorite developers / tutors out there. Junior developers may already know him from Pluralsight.com. I always take seriously what he says so I think I should mention from my blog for those that don’t know him that every few weeks he

xDev.gr moved to Devacron.com

Well, it was about time… Lets face it, BlogEngine.net that xdev.gr was using, lacks of good add ons. So after spending some time the last few days I was able to move most of the posts. I can’t say the transfer was totally smooth but

Nodeschool.io – Http Client and Http Collect

Below you can find my solutions to Nodeschool.io exercises “HTTP Client” and “HTTP Collect”.  In the first one you have to use the http core module. The code is simple enough:  var http = require(“http”); http.get(process.argv[2], function(response){ response.setEncoding(“utf8”) response.on(“data”, function(data){ console.log(data); }) }); And my

Nodeschool.io – Make it modular

Recently I was playing with the exercises from the fantastic http://nodeschool.io. Below is my solution to “Make it modular” exercise. Of course you can improve it eg. with the use of Regex but I just wanted to keep it simple for the start.  So the

How to get the size of a javascript Object

There are times that you will need to get the size of an object but the lack of .length maybe will drive you crazy. The solution is simple. Just create a function in which you pass the object as a parameter and then loop through

Intel® Galileo – Arduino compatible board!

Πολυ ευχαριστα τα νεα που μας ερχονται απο την Intel. Ανακοινωσε επισημα ενα board που φερει τον μικροεπεξεργαστη Intel Quark Soc1000 και ειναι συμβατο με arduino. O συγκεκριμενος επεξεργαστης ειναι 32bit και βασιζεται στην αρχτεκτονικη Pentium. Tα pins που υπαρχουν ειναι digital 0-13 και analog

How to loop through javascript object. The easy way!

Under ECMAScript 5, you can combine Object.keys() and Array.prototype.forEach():  var obj = { first: “Chris”, second: “Maria”, third: “Alex” }; Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(key) { console.log(key, obj[key]); }); More details: Object.keys – Array.prototype.forEach.