I’m trying to get more and more comfortable with node.js, and I’m finding it really handy to put together quick command line apps I might otherwise be putting way too much cruft into if I would have used PHP. Today’s utility was one I’ve been meaning to write for a while – it uses the […]

node.js (sic) is a really cool runtime environment that allows for asynchronous, event driven coding. It uses JavaScript and runs on Google’s open source V8 JS engine. I love the chat service ChatStep, but they advertise privacy and encryption without being willing to put their money where there mouth is and open source the system for […]

“Book ’em, Danno.” –Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, Hawaii Five-O My most recent project has been working with page scraping and HTML parsing in order to work with our publicly accessible arrest records to parse them into a more view-able format. From conception to completion, this app took about 12 man hours – a new record […]