Javascript on Evan Hoffman

Graphing SSH dictionary attacks with HighCharts

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:06:03 +0000

After my 10-year-old basement Linux server died this week from a power outage, I took the sad step of giving up on it. It’s died before and I’ve patched it back together with a new power supply here or an addon PCI SATA card there, but I finally decided to throw in the towel since I had a newer old computer that had been idle for several years. The one that died was an Athlon K7 750 MHz with 512 MB ram. The new one is an Athlon 2 GHz (3200+) with 1 gig. For my uses, specs don’t really matter that much, but it’s nice to have more power for free.

Teaching myself node.js: Part 3

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:39:59 +0000

Notes on MongoDB’s ObjectID vs sequential identifiers.

JavaScript regex for stripping leading & trailing whitespaces

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:09:51 +0000

str.replace(/^(\s*)((\S+\s*?))(\s)$/,"$2");

Teaching myself node.js: Part 2

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:45:02 +0000

More work learning node.

Teaching myself node.js: Part 1

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:50:59 +0000

In which I try to learn node.js by building a Quora-like site (since it seems everyone is building a blog).

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:20:21 +0000

I just finished reading JavaScript: The Good Parts, one of the best programming books I’ve read. The ending is fantastic:

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to consumers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce than designs that assemble long lists of features.