Basic Google Maps API v3 Tutorial

To embed a Google Map in your website, usually just pasting the HTML provided in http://maps.google.com is usually enough. But if you want to do something more advanced, like for example use custom markers, you need to use the Google Maps API. Here we are going to show a very brief tutorial on how to [...]

Using supervisor to run your node programs better

Recently I run into a cool script for node.js called supervisor. This is the definition taken from its website: A little supervisor script for nodejs. It runs your program, and watches for code changes, so you can have hot-code reloading-ish behavior, without worrying about memory leaks and making sure you clean up all the inter-module [...]

Pimp Sublime Text 2

Here are a few things that I like to do after a fresh installation of Sublime Text 2: Adjust preferences Press Ctrl + Shift + P and chose “Preferences: Settings -User“. This are my favourite tweaks 1. Get the current line highlighted "highlight_line": true 2. Show the fold buttons always The folding buttons are faded [...]

Using categories with TYPO3 and Direct Mail

Working recently on a newsletter with TYPO3 and the extension Direct Mail, I learned about categories. With them you can separate the different kind of contents that you will show to the subscribers of your newsletter, by assigning categories to the different content elements inside the internal pages of the CMS. A basic example Let’s [...]

The simplest introduction to node.js that could ever exist

I’ve been having lot of trouble to begin with node.js. Maybe the documentation is not very helpful with beginners, or maybe I’m plain stupid. Anyway, I thought I’d write an article about it, trying to make it clear for everyone. Requisites: You must know JavaScript, duh!   What is node.js? If you are anything like [...]