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aries: What’s next

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: October 24, 2011
In recently released framework I had done a lot of magic. One of most important part is magic done with  ClassLoader. Although I enjoy the simplicity provided by Node.js dependency handling (require stuff) It  forces to use special syntaxis that definitely won’t work on client side without special wrappers. And I guess it is possible [...]
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aries release

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: September 28, 2011
I want to officially announce 0.0.1 release of aries mvc framework for nodejs. github repository project site let’s start from hello-world app: As you can see url routing is done with simple annotations. I have think that annotations are awesome and hope there are people who will like that style of coding. You can check [...]
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Few quotes from Quora about Node.js

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: August 26, 2011
Ryan Grove, YUI engineer at Yahoo! Node.js showed up at the right time. PHP, currently the most popular server-side language, has been mired in community squabbling amidst a large effort to refactor its character encoding support, while also losing developer mindshare to the many excellent Ruby web frameworks that have appeared in the last few years. [...]
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Nice stuff is happening: CommonJS Package Manager.

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: July 31, 2011
Idea of some central plugin/snippet/library directory for javascript floats in the air for a long time. But seems there were no important piece of a puzzle. Im using Nodejs alot lately. And NPM is really great. The last piece Now we have CPM http://packages.dojofoundation.org/ which I see even more promising since we can use it [...]
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New post everyone!

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: October 23, 2010
It’s a long time since last post. I have started at least two different projects and both of them are not finished. I hope to have more free time in 2-3 month. Im in San Francisco right now and happy to work on new project with Hotwire. It’s a brand new application we start form [...]
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JS features you better know 1

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: September 1, 2009
In scope of functions arguments is local variable provides some nice features we can use in our code. First you don’t need to define any parameters for a function. You can just use arguments and will get arguments passed to the function. Worth noting though that although we use arguments like an array, it’s not [...]
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“Even Faster Websites”

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: August 27, 2009
OReily Even Faster Websites is a great book. It has some Javascript perfomance hints in its “Writing Efficient JavaScript” part. Here are conclusions: Use local variables Avoid with statement do not use too deep properies, redefine them with locals if possible Use the if statement when: — There are no more than two discrete values [...]
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