a thousand nodes...

I has been some time since i had played around with express.js and the node version that i was using was also outdated. So i decided to update them all; and figured out it was not that difficult to do it in the first place.

First of all i had got my node installed at /home/user/. I had to move it from here. So i started off by removing node

Collaborate

It has always been difficult to talk over Designs. And when the players are from entirely different backgrounds then they would sound Alien to each other.
While working on Projects for the web and off it, we have always faced this issue.
Designs and Revisions were a head ache for the Guys who design it and for those its being Designed for.
And as most of the communication happens over emails and sometimes over a phone call, people always seem to loose track of things.

Yes this can be done using just CSS. CSS3 doesnt have a property for Blur, but this can be achieved using a trick with shadows. I came across this while i was playing around with the color property. Some browsers support the value transparent for the color property. This will make the text invisible but it wont affect the text's shadow. text-shadow can takes the values for the position of the shadow and the spread.
Well the rest is in practice

It was a totally disappointing week for me. But i tried getting all the frustration out through coding. Sat for a full night to get this done. Always wanted to have my own startfield to fly away into outer space. It came out decently. But i am planning much more to it now.
This is the initial version that was build
http://athousandnodes.com/labs/starfield
Code is available on github
https://github.com/naughtydavid/starfield

Couple of days back Arshad created a project at drupal.org called Persistent Fieldsets.
This module makes the state of collapsible fieldsets persistent (If you collapse it, it will remain collapsed).
It's a small usability improvement that makes pages like the Modules page a lot better.

To make a fieldsets persistent add a #persistent attribute to the fieldsets array.
Eg:-

What would be the easiest way to debug JavaScript. Especially when you are working on mobile devices. Wont it be nice if some one would just tell you that you forgot to add a semicolon. Or told you about an Exception.
Check this out.
> Download the files from https://github.com/ferrante/Voice-Debugger.
> Add <script src="voicedebugger.js"></script> to your page
> And start Debugging.

Barcamp:

What is node.js. Why is it creating so much of a buzz. It should have been simple as its just javascript running on the server. But its not meant for every one.
How it works, Problems it can easily solve. We ll see when to use node and when not to.

I will be talking on node.js at the upcoming bangalore barcamp. Will update the site with the slides.

Finally my site is looking decent.
Also added some soap bubbles to it ;-)
Have fun.