The Rationale It’s generally believed that by using the Repository pattern, you can (in summary) “decouple” your data access from your domain and “expose the data in a...
It Was 2001, and I Had a Decision To Make Imagine if you could go back and rebase your technical career. What pivotal moments would you change? In 2001 I was cofounder of a pretty successful web...
So, What Do We Have Here? In the last post I used Node’s event library to help me unwind the callback Pyramid of Pain. I then used eventing to wire different modules together, just the way I...
Refactoring, Refactoring I’m stumbling my way to something interesting here… but things aren’t feeling exactly right. I do like the way that my code is a bit cleaner using the Event...
Feedback So Far I’ve received a number of great comments – thank you! People seem to be of the same mind that the original model was hard to follow and no fun. I agree. Opinions are...
Image Credit: This Can Be Simpler In my post about building the model I kicked up Sequelize, defined an Article, and went about my business: var Sequelize = require("sequelize-sqlite").sequelize; var...
##So Much Code For Such a Simple Thing… I can barely type that sentence without feeling a twinge of … not-happy. In the last post I showed some code that probably looked a bit weird if...
Before We Get Too Far One of the reasons I like spiking things is so I can get a feel for what my code will grow into. I’ve written so much crap in the past – it would pain me to do it...
##Where To Start? All I have right now is the notion of an Article – a pretty basic idea of a “model”. I hesitate to call it a model because the only definition I have for it is a...
What Are We Doing? I have an idea, now it’s time to flesh it out. In a traditional setting you may have sat with “stakeholders” or clients and fleshed out some requirements –...