Rob Janssen

Sugar. Javascript, sweetened.

Sugar. Javascript, sweetened. Node Twitter Blog Customize Github Download What is Sugar? Sugar is a Javascript library that extends native objects with helpful methods. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code.

.NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start

The .NET Framework just passed 3 million downloads. During this time, we’ve been monitoring your experience, paying attention to both telemetry and social traffic. One of the first things I do every morning is read through all the Twitter traffic about .NET. Many others on the .

JSON versus XML: Not as Simple as You Think

There has always been a fair amount of backlash against XML, but this has really heated up since JSON became popular. A lot of people want to throw XML out the window and use JSON for everything, and for many problems, this is a reasonable thing to do.

Structuring Client-side JavaScript code

JavaScript is a powerful language, but like any other tool it has its ugly parts and its good parts. One of its "features", is that it doesn't really enforce any particular packaging practices. Modules or namespaces are not first class citizens.

Take a walk through a Google data center – Data Centers – Google

From our networking room to the cooling towers outside of the facility, you can explore the different areas of a Google data center in this guided video tour. Learn more about what you're viewing in Street View above, and see some of our equipment in motion.

Commit-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development, TDD, is the art of writing a test before you start implementing anything in the production code. TDD is often known as Test-First Development.

Distributed Systems: Take Responsibility for Failover

More and more systems are advertising high availability but leaving the responsibility for failover in the hands of third-party clients or the end user. That forces the average user to implement their own (janky) failover scheme to keep their app from failing.

Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago

I’ve used MongoDB for over a year at scale at both Heyzap and Bugsnag and I’ve found it to be a very capable database. As with all databases, there are some gotchas, and here is a summary of the things I wish someone had told me earlier.

Blog — IP Geolocation Services Showdown

There are quite a few free and paid IP geolocation web services. At Addy, we needed to geocode addresses during our addy creation process, biased by the user’s current location.

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