It's silly that the layout requires a width of 1280px because of the right column, when there's plenty of free space in the left column: http://oi54.tinypic.com/20a3xxc.jpg
(only offending areas shown :)
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#12It's silly that the layout requires a width of 1280px because of the right column, when there's plenty of free space in the left column: http://oi54.tinypic.com/20a3xxc.jpg (only offending areas shown :)
You're right, but I suck at CSS - any hints?
Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete
#13It's silly that the layout requires a width of 1280px because of the right column, when there's plenty of free space in the left column: http://oi54.tinypic.com/20a3xxc.jpg (only offending areas shown :)
You're right, but I suck at CSS - any hints?
The quickest and easiest thing to get you up and running might be a grid framework, like grid960 (960.gs) or blueprint (blueprintcss.org).
Though off the top of my head, I can't think of a way that you could maintain your current layout but collapse the left column first.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi Manuel! I didnt mean for it to sound the wrong way, as if I'm ungrateful for the work you have done. As I've mentioned, it really is good, and it got me up and running and experimenting with Node.js quickly (for which I'm thankful for!). Maybe other people from HN can pick up the glove? Maybe a book deal with Manning/O'Reilly/Wrox (unless you're not interested in pursuing writing)? I was just reading the Google+ p…
All cool, didn't sound the wrong way at all! I think "Hands-on Node.js" by Pedro Teixeira is the perfect "next read" when you're finished with NodeBeginner. Pedro and I have bundled our eBooks at Leanbundle.com, maybe that's interesting for you: http://leanbundle.com/bundles/node
I actually bought the bundle! :) great work! PDFs and ePub looks great on my nook color.
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#15Color me interested.
I only did a super short-and-quick scan, but it looked nice for newbs trying to get up to speed.
My #1 hurdle to adopting server-side Javascript is the terrible, utterly lacking documentation for anything CommonJS related. If you've got any kind of reference for that stuff, then triple bonus points!
Re: The Node Beginner Book, an introduction to Node.js, is now complete
#16Color me interested. I only did a super short-and-quick scan, but it looked nice for newbs trying to get up to speed. My #1 hurdle to adopting server-side Javascript is the terrible, utterly lacking documentation for anything CommonJS related. If you've got any kind of reference for that stuff, then triple bonus points!
Figuring out what CommonJS really is, and that it should be completely disregarded was difficult. 'module.exports' and 'require()' are the only relevant bits as far as I can tell.
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#17Great stuff when I worked through it a few weeks ago. That bundled deal looks very tempting!
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#18Color me interested. I only did a super short-and-quick scan, but it looked nice for newbs trying to get up to speed. My #1 hurdle to adopting server-side Javascript is the terrible, utterly lacking documentation for anything CommonJS related. If you've got any kind of reference for that stuff, then triple bonus points!
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#19I've read the guide a few weeks ago, and it's absolutely great! I certainly learned a lot, and it saved me a lot of time Googling for answers. I think it would be a great addition to the book to discuss some of the frameworks that take Node.js to the next level: MVC (Express?), debugging, etc., and provide some examples. How does the author actually go about doing real-world projects? (I'm thinking along the lines of…
Hi, I'm the author. I would like to add much more relevant content to the book, but I need to be realistic about how much time I can spare for this currently. We will see how it works out.
Your technical writing is really phenomenal, you are able to communicate far more than just the hard and fast details in a really relateable way. I haven't seem many things that have adopted a voice like yours in the article, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you keep writing.
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#20I've read the guide a few weeks ago, and it's absolutely great! I certainly learned a lot, and it saved me a lot of time Googling for answers. I think it would be a great addition to the book to discuss some of the frameworks that take Node.js to the next level: MVC (Express?), debugging, etc., and provide some examples. How does the author actually go about doing real-world projects? (I'm thinking along the lines of…
Hi, I'm the author. I would like to add much more relevant content to the book, but I need to be realistic about how much time I can spare for this currently. We will see how it works out.
Hello Manual,
I just bought the LeanBundle - both your and Pedro's books look useful. I have played with NodeJS a bit and I am hoping that the two books get me to the point where I can do an "All Javascript" example app that functions like compiled GWT (Java to Javascript) web apps where the entire application lives in memory on the browser with occasional syncing between a server side data store and an in-memory data model.