Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology
For almost a year I’ve been helping social media curation tool Storify as a software engineer with their Node.js apps, Backbone.js front-end development as well as supporting Storify API, implementing Twitter API v1.1 intergration, writing blog posts and answering Storify API questions. We had some great moments and a few weeks ago I summed them … Continue reading “Good Bye Storify”
Over the past eight months, I’ve been juggling extremely demanding startup work at Storify, exceptionally fulfilling teaching assignments at Hack Reactor, General Assembly and Marakana, and writing my books and webapplog posts. By applying Yerkes–Dodson law, stress helped me to boost my productivity and I was happier than ever. However, in the last few weeks … Continue reading “Startup Life Balance and My Mexican Vacation”
Perception about what being a software engineer means is probably one of the biggest challenges to overcome before joining a coding bootcamp.
Time goes fast! It’s been six months since I’ve joined Storify in December 2012. Many cool things have happened, including a bunch of new releases, a company retreat and a hackweek.
Storify runs on Node.js and Express.js, therefore why not use these technologies to write an application that demonstrates how to build apps that rely on third-party APIs and HTTP requests to them?
This is a release candidate for 1.0 version which is going to be available to public in print. Page count has increase from 151 to 211 pages (PDF), which include the following updates:
More digestible (smaller) code examples with better comments
Express.js middleware section with an example
Express.js + MongoDB REST API server section with an example
Derby section with an example
Grammar and typo fixes
Illustrations
Summaries in the beginning of each chapter
Code examples formatting fixes
Express.js is a node.js framework that among other things provides a way to organize routes. Each route is defined via a method call on an application object with a URL patter as a first parameter (RegExp is also supported). The best practice is to keep router lean and thin by moving all the logic into corresponding external modules/files. This way important server configuration parameters will be neatly in one place, right there when you need them! :-)
After looking at Google Analytics stats I’ve realized that there is a demand for short Node.js tutorial and quick start guides. This is an introduction to probably the most popular (as of April 2013) Node.js framework Express.js.
Web development usually involves a large number of languages each with its own syntax, keywords, special sauce and magic tricks. Here is a collection of web development cheat sheets, in no particular order, which I’ve amassed by browsing the Internet over many years of web development
I’ve been a Microsoft Windows user for the most of my professional career. It all changed a year ago when I moved to Mountain View, California to participate in 500 Startups program, a summary of my experience in my blog post 15 things I learned from 500 Startups (aka Fail Factory). So far Max OS X is a best tool for me and I highly recommend to make a switch if you’re still on Windows.
Free sample chapter of Rapid Prototyping with JS which is a hands-on book which introduces you to rapid software prototyping using the latest cutting-edge web and mobile technologies including NodeJS, MongoDB, BackboneJS, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS, jQuery, Parse.com, Heroku and others.
Storify saves a lot of meta data about social elements: tweets, Facebook status updates, blog posts, news articles, etc. MongoDB is great for storing such unstructured data but last week I had to fix some inconsistency in 20-million-record Elements collection.
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Last week I joined Storify — a destination for curated social media news. Storify helps you sort through the noise to find the voices online that matter.
Rapid Prototyping with JS is a hands-on book which introduces you to rapid software prototyping using the latest cutting-edge web and mobile technologies including NodeJS, MongoDB, BackboneJS, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS, jQuery, Parse.com, Heroku and others.
A lot of people like to pick my brain on technical things related to early stage startups, e.g., what framework to use, how long will it take to build an app or a website, should I hire or outsource. I decided to organize my answers to the most common technical questions in this post:
A couple months ago, the team of StartupMonthly: Yuri Rabinovich and Vadim Slavin as instructors and facilitators, Micah McGraw as an assistant (thanks Micah!), and I as an instructor and author, ran another class of my Rapid Prototyping with JavaScript and NodeJS training. The training is a two and a quarter day intensive hands-on workshop … Continue reading “What We’ve Learned From Teaching the Trainings”
It’s a new social network for entrepreneurs with productivity tools based on Lean Startup methodology. Accelerator.IO is a niche social network similar to dribbble, which is for designers, and Forrst, which is for developers. Main focus for us, team of Accelerator.IO, is to provide valuable tools and content for startupers, founders, hackers and hustlers by … Continue reading “What is Accelerator.IO?”
Massive open online course or MOOC — is a type of online course aimed at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in the area of distance education, and a progression of the kind of open education ideals suggested by open educational resources.wiki Up until recently, online courses were … Continue reading “Online Education Overview”
Accelerator.IO We are building StartupMonthly internal system for community management with a potential to become new social network for entrepreneurs or Hacker News. With support of Steve Blank and Robert Scoble, we are incorporating StartupMonthly methodology for startup acceleration to improve productivity of startup ecosystems. Join us as a Contributor You will get exposure in … Continue reading “Help to build new social network for entrepreneurs – Accelerator.IO”
