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https://github.com/qawemlilo/piflix I built an electron app for organising and watching saved movies. In my part of the world, a lot of people still rely on external storage device…

I will continue working on NodeZA: https://nodeza.co.za - will focus on content creation and interaction between members.

http://node-ping.herokuapp.com (Repo: https://github.com/qawemlilo/node-ping ) - This is a very simple tool that monitors the availability of some of my websites and sends me an em…

I'm using my own static blog generator: https://github.com/qawemlilo/node-blogger , tried WordPress for a short-while but found it a bit too bloated.

Lead developer for a small London based start-up. Side project is a Node.js community platform: http://nodeza.co.za .

Also found the coding style a bit complicated and confusing - looks like they are passing the User module to other modules(in this case the auth module) and adding methods.

Gulp is written in a way I've always wished Grunt could be used and I have already started using it in new projects. RequireJS is still my front-end module loader of choice.

Such short sightedness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBCgiFhmNA . Do you have any idea what it was like to be black or non-white in Apartheid South Africa? First educate yoursel…

FIY, npm does not allow you to push a module version more than once.

I have once used Google Spreadsheets as a database for a bookmarking app: https://github.com/qawemlilo/Bookmarks . What I did different was that I published my spreadsheet as a CSV…

Backbone.js has made me a better JavaScript programmer, thank you Jeremy and everyone else that has contributed to this wonderful project.

This post really resonated with me. I'm a Joomla! developer and the learning curve for the Joomla! Framework and CMS is a bit steep but once you understand the extensions architect…

It gets even better, the company that designed the website doesn't even have its own website: http://letlaka.co.za/ .

I'm from South Africa and this simply demonstrates the extent of corruption within our government departments. It is not uncommon for government departments to inflate tender budge…

I am learning by doing and would appreciate some feed back.

JavaScript variables are passed by reference, the variable `i` on the statement: `var msg = txt[i];` will always reference the last value after the loop has executed.