Hello everybody.Today I would like to share with all of you our Node.js application boilerplate.We use this boileplate every time we start a new project.This application sets up an Express.js server with authentication, registration, password recovery, all out of the box.Moreover, there is also implemented authentication/registration via Facebook oauth.Finally, it supports localization and i18n friendly urls.From the technica...

Hello everyone! For those not familiar Disqus is a platform that allows you to easily insert a box for comments on any website and allows users to use the their Facebook or Twitter account (but not only) to authenticate. The limit of Disqus is that it associates any thread of comments to a unique url. Consequently, it will expect that in every page there is only a comment box. In most cases this limit is acceptable, but for some applications it ...

It's coming the time for publish online Gruppi Emergenti, the new music portal that offers a showcase for the bands, performers and live music venues in Italy.The website is completely free, and allows you to create a page for your band or for your club and to publish your own live music events.Through a localized search you can find all the upcoming events (live, concerts and so on) for a given period and in a given area. Google Maps integration also allows you to...

Hello everyone.In my last post I showed how to install MySQL from source on Osx. Among the many comments received, some of them suggested me to use homebrewI recommend everyone to use this tool in order to easily install several unix packages on OSX.Among the packages that can be installed there’s also PostgreSQL, the subject of today’s post.If you install PostgreSQL via homebrew, maybe have a look at this postThis post is instead directed to th...

As web developer I always thought at Firefox as my preferred browser mainly for its many extensions. There are indeed thousands of addons to customize your browser making him do anything. But as I said, I am a developer and thus the addons I prefer are those that support me in my daily work, making it easier and more enjoyable.Here is a list of plugins I use most. Web DeveloperWeb Devloper can analyze...

IceFaces provides numerous components to facilitate the development of web applications. Among these, one of the most 'useful' is definitely ice:dataTable. This component, together with ice:dataPaginator makes it possible to paginate the entire data set of a table, showing only N rows per page. The main weakness of this component lies in the difficulty to handle large data sets: ice:dataTable component need to receive a list containing all rows that wi...

With the imminent release of version 4.0 of the. NET framework and VisualStudio 2010, Microsoft will introduce a new language that can fully use all the features of the .NET framework. This language is called F#.Unlike the C# programming language, which is an imperative programming language, F# is a functional programming language, based on .NET framework such as C#. F# and C# can call each other directly. As a result, F# has fully access to all the .N...

Hello everyone, In today’s post I would like to explain how to create .NET custom events. The .NET framework provides specific objects that enables simple creation and use of events.The events allow to an object (or class) to let know other classes or other objects when a specific occurrence occurred. The class that generates and sends the event is called Publisher and the classes that are notified and manage the event are called Su...