Last week's screencast was not good enough to be posted here. It was something new that didn't work the way I expected. This week's should be better.

Most instances in life you will get what you want. You will not starve to death, freeze in the cold, or be eaten by velociraptors. You will get a job doing something close to what you love, and be paid enough to buy lots of stuff. You will find friends, even if they are just co-workers or that drive-through girl who gives you extra fries. You will have a good life. But every now and again, you will try for something more. You will try and stretch for the next step up. You will get excited a

I am currently working every free hour I can find with JavaScript. From jQuery on the front-end through Node.js on the server. I'm storing everything with CouchDB. The JSON is just flying all over the place. This site is using python on app engine, it is such a nice combination. [screencasts]

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I am currently working every free hour I can find with JavaScript. From jQuery on the front-end through Node.js on the server. I'm storing everything with CouchDB. The JSON is just flying all over the place. This site is using python on app engine, it such a nice combination. [screencasts]

I am currently working every free hour I can find with JavaScript. From jQuery on the front-end through Node.js on the server. I'm storing everything with CouchDB. The JSON is just flying all over the place. This site is using python on app engine, it such a nice combination. [screencasts]

I am currently working every free hour I can find with JavaScript. From jQuery on the front-end through Node.js on the server. I'm storing everything with CouchDB. The JSON is just flying all over the place. This site is using python on app engine, it such a nice combination. [screencasts]

This week's screencast is about creating a local module to store your private settings. This is important because you don't want user:pass and IP addresses stored in git or github.

Preferred way to contact me mcotton @ mcottondesign . com You can find me elsewhere github stack overflow stackoverflow careers @mcotton

I submitted a screencast to nut.tuts I am waiting to hear back from them. It has to be previously unpublished for them to use it. If they use it I will post the link, if not I'll post it hear.

You can get the code https://github.com/mcotton/twilio-node or you can just install it with npm npm install twilio-node

It is easy to get caught up with the web trends and forget about shipping products. This happens to me all the time. I have a hard drive full of prototypes and concepts, yet my github account is really sparse. I'm still going to program in my off-hours, but now will document the changes I make. I already announced my goal of one screencast a week to be posted to this blog. Instead of starting new projects I am going to fork existing projects, build out more thorough examples and submit them

I love screenr.com and am making a goal to put up one new screencast a week. I hope it better demonstrates what I'm working on.

I don't know the specifics but the trajectory is promising. It is much more rewarding for me to work on an open source project than to haggle for a 3% raise. Right now I'm releasing free screencasts each week.

I am currently working every free hour I can find with JavaScript. From jQuery on the front-end through Node.js on the server. I'm storing everything with CouchDB. The JSON is just flying all over the place. This site is using python on app engine, it such a nice combination.

I've worked in the home automation industry for the last 7 years. It has been a great experience because all code written is used by real people everyday. Lights, HVAC, Security are all critical systems that have to work. Here are some crestron examples.

Right now I'm finding ways to use more of the awesome APIs provided by google. Even though the volume is low, memcache and task queues are still great ideas. I'm trying to carry over what I've learned from working with Node.js

I decided to venture out to the scary world of Amazon Web Services. I am far enough along that it makes sense to update this blog about my experience. I am working with Couchdb and Node.js. I love couch and so far, really enjoy node. I'm deploying this on ubuntu (which is always awesome) on ec2. My current workflow goes like this.. Reboot in ubuntu Make changes to my app, commit and push from git ssh into ec2, pull from git enjoy It is as similar to app engine as I could make it. I'm sure going

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