If you’re looking for moment.js alternatives, I’d recommend reading this article about smaller, lighter-weight moment.js alternatives.

Was doing some test speedup/performance improvement work recently on the search API and found out something; the moment.js library takes around 100 microseconds (or .1 milliseconds) to create a new instance.

My team at work recently upgraded our codebase to use to node 6.9, as node 6 has recently gone to LTS.

The last several weeks Thomas Hunter and myself have spent some of our nights and weekends trying to track down memory leaks in an API we both work on.

I upgraded a heap of projects I was working on to node 4.2.3 and babel 6.

This is an Express view engine which renders React components written in CoffeeScript on the server. It renders static markup and does not support mounting those views on the client.

I’ve found a neat feature of derby dealing with the ready() function. I’ve been creating a derby app, and in my application I need to load up a client-side calendar. With a standard HTML web page this is straightforward thing to do. On the page you wanted the calendar, you would include the client js for the calendar, some code to load it, and that would be that. Derby introduced some complexity to this relatively simple task. On my first attempt, I put my scripts in the section of…

In working with Twitter Bootstrap Forms, one of my favorite ways to lay out a form is using the Horizontal form layout. The layout requires a bit of css/html to get each of the form elements (the text boxes and what not) to play nicely. To add form elements to the horizontal form layout, you need the following html structure for each field:

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I’m a big fan of Twitter Bootstrap. Lately I’ve been playing been with JavaScript and Derby. I want to integrate bootstrap with the POC site I’m building, and the creators of Derby have already figured out a way to do this.

In my previous post about derby, I talked a bit about how to create a model in derby and one rule you need to follow when creating models (the first two path segments should be an object).