toggle Cinema 09 Oct 2012

Updating node.js Posted by Insane in Node.js | No responses

So, last proyect I was involved required me to return to node.js, my working copy was so outdated that I´m almost ashamed of telling the version but regarthless that upgrading node to latest version (0.8.11 as the date of this post) was really tricky. Seems to be that the team behind the project decided to also upgrade the dependencies of the configure script, I´m talking about  python2.6.

I didn´t want to upgrade my local version of python since was afraid of other things start to breaking up, if it´s rings any bells here´s what I did:

  • 1 – Check python version if it´s equal o greater that 2.6 you can jump to step 3 
    python -v
  • 2 – Download latest python from your RPM repository ( skip step  if you allready have latest version )
  • 3 – Create a hard link to the latest version of python.
ln -f /usr/bin/python2.x /usr/bin/python
  • 4 – Install n, n is a lightweight binary managment for node, you cant install multiple versions and switch among them.
npm install -g n
  • 5 – Install new node version by:
n 0.8.11 ( or n latest)
  • 6 – Done, try installing something like this:
n npm 0.8.11 install -g bower
  • Not less important, return python to its prev default version
ln -f /usr/bin/python2.x /usr/bin/python
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toggle Cinema 28 Mar 2011

HTML5, AJAX, SEO and other drugs, learn how to combine them Posted by Insane in Ajax, Google, Google Spreedsheet, Javascript, Php, Uncategorized, donnu | No responses

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Nowadays it´s quite common to browse between full rich content sites with, you know a lot of flash, jquery and xhtml. Every since the first appear of Ajax, developers all over the globe has explode its potential by following this amazing new way to walk through a website, click here and boila the content is automatically delivered to you without any time waste on leave the current page.

But it´s been a long since something dramatically cames to change the way we interact and enjoy the web. Could be said that html5 is the new (yeah sorry not so new ) big thing to revolutionize the web, if you haven´t yet check it out you should probably  take a look to this and this and this sites.

With all this bast tools to build ( being from scratch or allready bundled ) amazing websites and make it ready to speak correctly with mobiles and even old-fashioned-browsers wouldn´t be exactly surprising if we include to our old friend SEO into the play.

Things you should know before markup html5 sites

  • Semantically html5 is the right choise to organize your content, tags like header,footer,section,aside will become quickly the best way to replace your div wrappers but by know…
  • Google currently won’t give special consideration to those that use HTML5, so if by any chance your top goal is the SEO of your site, well please desist you won´t get any more success than doing it with xhtml.
  • Follow this guide to make your Ajax site crawlable to google bots.

Sure mom, now what?

Personally try to keep things simple and readable as much as i can, but when a best practice is the best way to do the things i prefer it all the time. As a developer i found very helpfull several tools that not only increase the delivery speed but also add interesting features, find below the list.

  • Make sure your site accomplish with the w3c standard http://validator.w3.org/
  • Yepnope is a conditional resource loader that allows you to add only the scripts that the browser needs.
  • YUI profiler, it attaches itself to the firebug console and let you analyze the behavior and performance of your javascript code.
  • Modernizr allows you to target specifically functionality to your application, best replace to those ugly conditional IE tags .
  • HTML5 Boilerplate, excellent framework with all best practices included to guaranty portability and display to your web apps.Also includes several allready mentioned libraries.

Conclusions

This isn´t a science neither everything is said as we evolve so the web does, there´s no doubt that we´ll eventually see and develope more html5 websites and it´s mandatory that we ready for it having in top of our minds the top goal wich is always to offer the best user experience.

Happy SEO.

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toggle Cinema 15 Feb 2011

Posting to your friends Wall (Simple Javascript/Php/Facebook API) Posted by Insane in Javascript, Php, Uncategorized | 16 responses

I must admit it, I were looking for an example like this (or even better a downloadable code) without any succeed. After 2 two hours of research I finally figured the whole process out and decided to write this small post and attach the code  as well. When you look back and see the things all in perspective trust me:  it´s actually quite easy.

First you need to get an API key for your application, access here to get an api key and a secret key, when you have ready them replace those values in the config file fbconfig.ini.

Upload the content to your site and enjoy  :)

Here´s the working demo.

UPDATE (27 Feb 2012)

I´ve updated the download file as well as the url since several changes has been made to the FB api since the writing of this post.

Download the code

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