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A promise represents the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.

The basic idea is that you can swap in a promise where you would normally pass in a callback.

The primary interaction is that you call a method which returns a promise which will eventually return a result (it can immediately return the result if it's available) and you chain a call to .then() onto that method call.

The call to then is equivalent to passing in the callback function.

Clear as mud?

This post is part of a series where I'm hoping to prove to myself that building a dynamic website with NodeJS is much more fun than using a CMS platform. See the first post for an explanation of why

The code can be found on GitHub

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This was the first part of the process which felt 'hard' so where I've felt the absence of a CMS platform but it's also only the second time I've ever implemented authentication using NodeJS. And still only boiled down to a few hours work.

This post is part of a series where I'm hoping to prove to myself that building a dynamic website with NodeJS is much more fun than using a CMS platform. See the first post for an explanation of why

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The first step is always (or at least should be) to take a step back and decide what to actually do…

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After a day writing DDL for a project that has manual schema versioning against MS SQL and is going through a lot of changes I feel honour bound to write a post about storing data in the Omniclopse site.

I've been thinking about what people call the objects they pass around and whether they are the right names and why… and when… and I feel like the dog running behind the television to see where the onscreen dog went - on the verge of a paradigm shifting change in perspective but not quite getting it (and possibly a bit smelly)

This post is part of a series where I'm hoping to prove to myself that building a dynamic website with NodeJS is much more fun than using a CMS platform. See the first post for an explanation of why

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Browserstack

I love Browserstack's awesome service. It allows you to test your websites on different browsers and operating systems. Helping reduce the need to have access to physical devices for testing and reproducing bugs.

Selenium WebDriver

BrowserStack allow automation using a Selenium web driver. You can access this with Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Perl, PHP, or Node.js. It is also possible to test publicly or locally available sites using BrowserStack.

This post is part of a series where I'm hoping to prove to myself that building a dynamic website without a CMS is comparable to building one with a known CMS. See the first post for an explanation of why

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In his awesome book, "Don't Make Me Think" (shameless affiliate link), Steve Krug drives home the message that time spent figuring out how your site is supposed to work is not time spent deciding to engage with your site. So, we're not going to do any ground-breaking design work for this company web page.

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Setup

So, it's relatively easy to get an Hello World page displaying…

I was once complaining about having difficulty setting up a very slightly unusual feature in a Drupal site that was taking forever to achieve. The framework made so many assumptions about what I should do that it wouldn't let me do what I wanted to.

A freelancer commented that if he was quoting on a project that had a requirement that it use a given CMS he didn't quote any less than building from scratch. He had found it didn't make enough difference to the effort he'd spend…

This stuck with me and matches my experience so far. (yeah, yeah, confirmation bias. I know)

TokuMX is an

"open source, high-performance distribution of MongoDB".

On a current project we're using MongoDB and, as the system is likely to scale fairly heavily, worrying (primarily) about storage. So, I picked up a task to compare MongoDB and TokuMX.