October 2, 2015

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Video: Overview of MeteorJS development using AtomIO

Today we finally have the first of the long ago promised new video category. We’re discussing MeteorJS development under Atom.

Useful links:

atom shell atomio electron javascript meteorjs video webdev

Why Slack when you can Rocket.chat?

September 26, 2015

Everyone knows that Slack is the current darling of the chat world. This is especially true in the high-tech scene as it seems like everyone is using Slack. It quickly eclipsed 6 year old HipChat with a huge suite of fancy new features and a shiny interface. The 14 teams I’m a member of can attest to Slack having also taken the place of IRC for many. So why isn’t this post an advertisement for Slack? Well everything isn’t all roses and sunshine in the land of Slack and there’s a new upstart worth checking out… Rocket.chat.

Schedule change & new format

August 17, 2015

Over the years, the posting schedule here at Snowulf.com has varied wildly. We’ve had our good times (5 posts a week) and our bad times (zero posts for months). Up until July of this year, we’ve been averaging 1-2 posts a month for the last year or more, which is very sad. As soon as I had more free time, our post rate jumped up to 5 times a week and held that for more than a month. I’m very proud to really solidly be back “in the game”, however some adjustments need to be made.

SocketIO IRC-style Tutorial – Part 4 – The client code

July 23, 2015

This is the 4th post in a multi-part tutorial series on Socket.io. See Part 3 here. In today’s section of the tutorial, we’re going to be discussing the chat client. This is a single page with all the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript rolled into one. It’s bad form for production use but, again, we’re all for simplicity in this tutorial. Since we’re on the client (i.e. browser) side of the code, everything we’re covering today will be in JavaScript with some jQuery (as opposed to the NodeJS from Part 3). Of course, we’ll also be using the SocketIO client side libraries as well.