Over the last few weeks, I've been slowly moving my blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. The change has been a long time coming, and so far I couldn't be happier with the results. I thought it may be interesting to make the ultimate meta post, and write a blog post about my blog. You can take a look at the source code on GitHub.
Wazstagram is a fun experiment with node.js on Windows Azure and the Instagram Realtime API. The project uses various services in Windows Azure to create a scalable window into Instagram traffic across multiple cities.
I spend a lot of time at the command line. As someone who likes to code on OSX and Windows, I've always been annoyed by the Windows command line experience. Do I use cmd, or PowerShell? Where are my tabs? What about package management? What about little frivolous things like being able to resize the window. I've finally got my Windows command line experience running smoothly, and wanted to share my setup. Here are my 5 steps to a Windows command line that doesn't suck.
After releasing WebMatrix 2 RC this week, I'm excited to head out to NYC for WordCamp 2012. While I get ready to present tomorrow, I figured I would share some of the amazing work the WebMatrix team has done to create a great experience for WordPress developers. For a more complete overview of the WebMatrix 2 RC, check out Vishal Joshi's blog post.
If you want to skip all of this and just download the bits, here you go:
After months of hard work by the WebMatrix team, it's exciting to introduce the release candidate of WebMatrix 2. WebMatrix 2 includes tons of new features, but today I want to give an overview of the work we've done to enable building applications with Node.js.
If you want to skip all of this and just get a download link (it's free!), here you go.