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The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js
This post was featured as a guest blog for MongoDB on April 30th 2013, which can be found here. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me for help with PostgreSQL. As someone who’s been blissfully...
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How to Easily Validate Any Form Ever Using AngularJS
If you’ve ever tried to build any kind of website, odds are you’ve had to create some way of validating and saving input from a form. Back in the bad old days this used to be a huge pain, because...
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Mistakes You’re Probably Making With MongooseJS, And How To Fix Them
If you’re familiar with Ruby on Rails and are using MongoDB to build a NodeJS app, you might miss some slick ActiveRecord features, such as declarative validation. Diving into most of the basic...
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8 Reasons Why Better Nutrition Makes You a Better Developer
Software developers are not known for having the best nutrition. When it comes to development work, the stereotypical late night Red Bull-fueled coding binge is often not too far from the truth. It’s...
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Introduction to the MEAN Stack, Part One: Setting Up Your Tools
I’ve received several emails asking for instructions on how to set up a basic MEAN stack app. I’m going to take it one step further and give you guys a two-part post that will walk you through creating...
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Introduction to the MEAN Stack, Part Two: Building and Testing a To-do List
In last week’s blog post, I showed you how to install all of the basic tools that you need to get up and running with the MEAN Stack. Didn’t catch that one and need help getting started with the MEAN...
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The 80/20 Guide to Writing AngularJS Directives
AngularJS is blowing up right now, and with good reason. There’s nothing more satisfying than using AngularJS to turn 1,000 messy lines of Backbone.js and jQuery spaghetti code into a trivial 10 lines....
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Price Internationalization with the MEAN Stack
Displaying prices in different currencies is a common internationalization task for web developers. However, this task can be a bit tricky: While there are a number of services that provide foreign...
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Want To Ace Your Next Developer Interview? Channel Andrew Luck
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the single most important quality that differentiates a good software developer from an excellent software developer is the ability to spend hours on a...
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The 80/20 Guide to Writing and Using AngularJS Filters
My directives post seems to have gone over well. I’ve received emails and comments from readers expressing how much it helped them, so I figured I’d write a post about one of the simultaneously oldest,...
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My Top 5 Paleo Lifestyle Hacks for New Yorkers
It’s official: paleo was the most searched for health term on Google in 2013, and, thus, paleo is no longer weird. Well, maybe its still a little weird, but at least people don’t look at me like I’m...
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What You Need To Know About AngularJS Data Binding
You hear a lot about data binding in AngularJS, and with good reason: its at the heart of everything you do with Angular. I’ve mentioned data binding more than a few times in my guides to directives...
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Crunching 30 Years of NBA Data with MongoDB Aggregation
When you are looking to run analytics on large and complex data sets, you might instinctively reach for Hadoop. However, if your data’s in MongoDB, using the Hadoop connector seems like overkill if...
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The Optimal Setup for Listening to Talks at 2x Playback Speed
If you’re an avid podcast listener and online courseware consumer like I am, odds are you’ve gotten frustrated with how long it takes to listen to a single lecture. An hour-long podcast on Bulletproof...
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Why Math is Necessary for CS Majors
While math and computer science have been lumped together for about as long as the latter has existed, there’s a lot of backlash recently toward the idea that a solid math background is integral to...
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Plugging USDA Nutrition Data into MongoDB
As much as I love geeking out about basketball stats, I want to put a MongoDB data set out there that’s a bit more app-friendly: the USDA SR25 nutrient database. You can download this data set from my...
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A NodeJS Perspective on What’s New in MongoDB 2.6, Part I: Text Search
MongoDB shipped the newest stable version of its server, 2.6.0, this week. This new release is massive: there were about 4000 commits between 2.4 and 2.6. Unsurprisingly, the release notes are a pretty...
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A NodeJS Perspective on What’s New in MongoDB 2.6, Part II: Aggregation $out
From a performance perspective as well as a developer productivity perspective, MongoDB really shines when you only need to load one document to display a particular page. A traditional hard drive only...
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What’s New in Mongoose 3.8.9
I have an important announcement to make: over the last couple weeks I’ve been taking over maintaining mongoose, the popular MongoDB/NodeJS ODM. I have some very big shoes to fill, Aaron Heckmann has...
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The Future of MongooseJS
Two weeks ago marked a big milestone: mongoose 3.9.0 was released. Be warned, mongoose’s versioning practice is that even numbered branches are stable and odd are unstable. While all our tests check...
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