Erik L. Arneson is a freelance writer and software developer with WordPress experience. He is located in Portland, Oregon. Jekyll 2026-06-18T15:03:10+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/feeds/node-js.xml Erik L. Arneson Erik L. Arneson 2016-01-15T17:26:41+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/2016/01/centurylink-appfog-tutorial <p>Recently I wrote a tutorial with <a href="http://wordlions.com/" target="_blank">Word Lions</a> for <a href="http://ctl.io/" target="_blank">CenturyLink Cloud</a> that teaches how to build and deploy a Node.js application to CenturyLink AppFog. The tutorial and application were really fun to build and write. It was my first Node.js project, and my first experience with CloudFoundry. The tutorial uses the following CenturyLink Cloud products: <!--more--></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/appfog/">AppFog</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/orchestrate/">Orchestrate</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/object-storage/">Object Storage</a></li> </ul> <p>AppFog is CenturyLink Cloud’s CloudFoundry system. It is really powerful, and it appears to be more flexible than <a href="https://arnesonium.com/tag/google-cloud/">Google App Engine</a>.</p> <h2>Read the Tutorial</h2> <p>The tutorial walks you through building a document storage system with a built-in PDF reader and comment storage. It also includes user authentication and some other neat Node.js tricks. You can follow the tutorial from the following links, which will include all of the information needed to get you up and running on AppFog with Node.js. Enjoy!</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/deploy-app-user-login">Deploy an App With User Login</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/appfog-object-storage">Using CenturyLink Cloud for Object Storage</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/search-document-metadata">Add Search Capabilities with Orchestrate</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/document-review-comment">Building a PDF Viewer and Comment System</a></li> </ol> Erik L. Arneson 2015-04-06T15:47:00+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/2015/04/link-rodeo-go-package-management-and-boring-technology <p>Here are a number of interesting topics for you to think about this week. <!--more--></p> <p>I’ve been learning the <a href="http://arnesonium.com/tag/golang/" title="Go language">Go programming language</a> recently, and in the process I’ve been having conversations about it with friends and colleagues. Go has a unique package management system that has already caused me a number of headaches. The recommended method for taking care of package dependencies is lacking, at best. Over at Nerdbucket, my buddy Nerdmaster has written <a href="http://blog.nerdbucket.com/go-dependency-freezing/article" title="Go Dependency Freezing at Nerdbucket" target="_blank">a thoughtful piece about it</a>.</p> <p>While I’m talking about new technology, I’d also like to contradict myself by agreeing with Dan McKinley’s great piece, <a href="http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology" title="Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley" target="_blank">“Choose Boring Technology.”</a> He argues that a project should be careful about adopting lots of new tools and technologies. It reminds me of a time recently when I was looking for a Node.js programmer, and one of the replies I got back was, “For us, Node.js is glue. Its ecosystem is still too young to support anything long-term. Libraries and packages move too fast to build a product that will need actual maintenance.” I’ve had the same feeling about many technologies I’ve wanted to try, such as <a href="http://ocsigen.org/" title="Ocsigen" target="_blank">Ocsigen for OCaml</a>, which has a build system and API that is always several steps ahead of its documentation.</p> <p><small><em>This post’s featured photo is courtesy of Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/municipiopinas/8161449094/" target="_blank">MunicipioPinas</a>.</em></small></p>