js Upgrading. What could go wrong? I talk about topics related mostly to the Node.js world, but they can be applied to different languages.I love upgrading software. I know some may think that's a weird statement, but
code Rackspace to GCP Since 2011 I've used Rackspace for personal projects. I had my own VPS and used it to host websites and test out tech I was interested in.This was well before infrastructure automation
javascript Refreshing byvernacchia.com I finally updated my personal website, byvernacchia.com. It's definitely been a long time coming.
javascript Using new features of nodejs I recently worked on a small project where I had free reign to use whatever technology I wanted. It was an internal project, so as long as I chose a language people knew
centos So you want to E2E test with headless chrome on CentOS This is not the place to have a discussion about what I call E2E testing and how it may differ to what you think E2E testing encompasses. Over the past few months I've
chef Octopus SSH Tentacle Auto-Registration (via Chef) Our small team here in London is going through a transformation, albeit a slow one. One from a centralised monolith to smaller services that make up something bigger, from process as a gateway
javascript 2016 In A Nutshell 2016 came and went. It's time to take a look back, no matter how quick it is, at the projects I created this year. Well, the public ones... As always, hit me up
javascript The Paket [Node] Module Last week, I transitioned one of the repos at work to use Paket in lieu of Nuget. While this post is not about why or which is better, I have to say I'm
javascript Life is Full of Pivots Pivot 1 Before starting my "pro" career at Salesforce, formerly ExactTarget, I was primarily doing PHP. I had very limited JS skills but a decent programming foundation. jQuery was my go
javascript Promises Alongside Callbacks So, you've made a module/library/framework. It works and is easy to maintain but uses callbacks exclusively. With the arrival of Promises, and huge adoption, isn’t it time that your module
javascript FuelUX RTL Wizard So, you're using bootstrap, and you want a few extra features/components that don't come standard. You've scoured the web for these and likely stumbled upon FuelUX or UI Bootstrap (by the Angular
js My First React(ion) I've been checking out ReactJS over the past few days, and to say the least I'm impressed. I started by going through Facebook's tutorials, but they only seemed to scratch the surface. Suffice
ghost Another Coding Website? Alas, I have setup this new blog for me to discuss some of my findings in "the code." While some of you know I have another blog that aims to do
