Hiddentao Labs

I recently had to get Parse push notifications working with a Phonegap/Cordova application.

I noticed articles talking DARPA's plans and was curious to go and read from their original report.

For Youlist I had to setup Meteor to use a localhost SMTP server to send out all the emails.

I am currently working on a Phonegap application using Ionic framework.

I recently released an efficient linear algebra library for Javascript.

Project renamed from Ansibot to Ansijet, to avoid confusion with Github's Ansibot I have just released Ansijet, an Ansible playbook automation server.

As part of my tests for Ansibot I need to be able to shutdown and startup the server multiple times in succession.

I've recently released Melkor, a wiki engine built in Node.js.

This post is about how to use Ansible and Docker for both setting up a server environment for your app and then deploying your web app to it, and preserving your logs in case of server crash.

Every now and then I see an article explaining why Promises in Javascript are awesome.

I am currently building a web app framework on top of Koa, the generator-based middleware framework for node.js.

(The information in this article pertains to Docker v0.7.

Following some helpful instructions, I got myself a new cloud server at Digital Ocean to start mining Primecoins with.

The angular.module() call is unfortunately not very well designed, if you read the docs.

I just got TightVNC working properly with Ubuntu 12.04.

I recently decided to take control of my data in the cloud and install ownCloud on my own server.

NOTE: This post is a rant I've recently begun working on an Ember.JS project for a client.

I have just released abide - a small library I've been working on for the last few days.

I've just released a proof-of-concept IMAP email client written in Javascript, running in the Chrome browser.

Javascript has given you the ability to define properties on objects for a while now, utilising Object.defineProperty to control how properties are read and written.

For an upcoming project of mine - learnchinesegym.com - I wanted a 'soon-to-be-launched' page with a simple sign up form through which users could submit their email addresses in order to be notified of updates.

I'm trying to optimise my JPEGs so that they're progressive.

The other day, whilst writing tests with SinonJS I realised that there was no obvious way of mocking calls to class constructors in Javascript.

Just pushed a few updates to the Google text-to-speech API library - google-tts - I first put out a while back.

I have started using the Q module - an implementation of the Promises specification.

I've just pushed out a new release of Wordpress Flickr Embed, a plugin which makes it really easy to insert Flickr images into your posts.

If I had Google Glass I would want to recreate the Darknet glasses featured in Daemon Inc. by Daniel Suarez.

For my current project I needed an efficient implementation of the Levenshtein algorithm in Javascript.

Squel 1.1 is now available.

As Twitter becomes ever more important and people begin to wonder whether it can even be used to balance out biased/incomplete mainstream news outlets it becomes clear that leaving it in control of one entity (the Twitter company) is unwise.

One of the great benefits of building your mobile app in Javascript (with PhoneGap as the wrapper) is that you can load in bits of code (via the script tag) as and when needed.

In writing UI tests for my new web app I hit a snag today.

Squel version 1.0.6 is now out.

Just released a minor update to the Wordpress Flickr Embed plugin.

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Wordpress Flickr Embed, a plugin which makes it really easy to insert Flickr images into your Wordpress posts.

Today I released version 1.0.5 of Squel, the Javascript SQL query string builder.

One of the features I want to add to my experimental "learn Chinese" web app - http://zhongwen.co.uk/ - is the ability to have the Chinese characters read out to you so that you can practise the sounds too.

I'd like to introduce Weber, a slick command-line tool for compiling, concatenating and minifying scripts, stylesheets and templates on-the-fly.

I started attending Mandarin language classes recently at the Meridian Chinese School in London.

For a recent project I'm working on we had a requirement to be able to process long-running tasks in Django triggered by user interaction on the front-end.

I'd like to announce the immediate availability of Squel.js, a lightweight Javascript library for building SQL query strings.

I'm using the vows "behaviour-driven development" framework to test the squel Javascript library.

As part of a recent Django project I had to provide a way to view all the SQL queries which had been executed through the Django app across all requests, when using the Django test server.

I've created a patch for Sequelize which enables one to use primary key fields as foreign keys too, something I find myself doing often with my relational schemas as I don't like using the standard id primary key field unless it's the most sensible primary

I've been using the Sequelize ORM library for node.js lately and it's a really nicely done piece of work by Sascha Depold.

I've come across a CoffeeScript "gotcha" whilst cloning Spine models.

I needed to write a custom widget for the jQuery Mobile library but couldn't find any step-by-step documentation on how to do it in the official docs.

As I've hinted at in previous posts I've been using RequireJS for a while now to help "modularize" my client-side Javascript code and make it easy to package it into minified and compressed script files at deployment time.

For a project I'm currently working on I've decided to jump on the Javascript bandwagon with full weight.

Here's a crazy idea which popped into my head the other day.