Evan Tahler

Why Task Systems?

When should you not use an API-First methodology?

After siting idle for over a year, Fiona (Fiona ODMC) and I have decided to reboot API-First.com.

I have been reading quite a few posts lately concerning the topic of becoming a ‘technical co-founder’ of a startup.

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A read-write splitting adapter for Active Record

This was a busy week for actionHero!

Intro

Jekyll: Where have you been all my life?!

Keep your git branches clean!

Solved!

Recently we added support for a ‘developer mode’ to ActionHero which reloads parts of your project on the fly as you develop.

Today I woke up to learn that I had made it big!

actionhero-client is a nodeJS package to allow a remote nodeJS app to connect to and consume an actionHero API.

This site had the wonderful idea to generate resumes from Github.

How do you deploy a node.js app reliably?

Just a handy reminder that you can add "arbitrary" commands to your node NPM modules without creating binaries.

Today I learned that npm (the node.js package manager) has support for arbitrary commands and chained commands.

That’s Right, the rumors were true: ActionHero is now @ V3!

I received some stickers at work today from Joyent and, like I have been doing for the past many years, I stuck them to the back of my…

actionHero is growing up so fast!

Where have I been for the past month?

Mobile Apps with JS

I recently got a note from an actionHero user asking about the difference between tasks and actions within the framework.

Whenever I am about to start integrating with a new API, I like to walk though the steps with cURL.

I really like Capistrano.

I recently had a chance to try out blitz.io (or click my affiliate link thing and get me some free tests), a new load-testing tool from…

HUZZAH!

Note: I have included links to some of the malicious PHP code which attacked me in this blog post.

I have a hard time answering the question "where are you from?".

After all the hoopla about node.js and Nerf guns yesterday I revisited the phidgets package and fixed a few bugs.

Nerf Guns and Product Management

A quick update about the nodeSpider project (my first public node.js project!)

Travis CI is raising money to keep their free community continues integration server up and running.

At work the other day, an engineer most familiar with Ruby asked "What is the equivalent to Unicorn in Node?".

The nodeCheker project which I spoke about a few months ago got an update today.

At ModCloth, our website uses the Ruby on Rails framework, and we use the unicorn web server.

After almost 15 hours or compile-try-fail-repeat, I’ve figured out the formula for compiling nodeJS on a Phidget SBC2 board!

My last post was about creating a generic npm package to talk to a phidget board.

For those of you who don’t know what Phidgets are, they are small robotic prototyping boards which can handle (binary) input and output…

David Padilla of Crowd Interactive recently realized he was on this recruiting site called GitHire.

I am working on a nodeJS framework!

At ModCloth, our Ops team wanted to have a real time dashboard of important site information so they could know ASAP if something was wrong…

I love doing web development in Chrome and Safari, as they have excellent built-in develop tools.

Sometimes nodeJS amazes me.

A few months ago, Kate, Jenn, and I (all Modcloth co-workers) gave a talk at the world-famous pivotal labs about our unique "agile" way of…

Yep, I made a blog.