Peter Eysermans

Starting a project with Express, node.js and Stylus

Node.js gets a lot of attention lately, out of curiosity I decided to try it out. After reading the excellent hands-on node e-book I wanted to port one of my pet projects, a price comparer between different IKEA branches (site is offline) written in ASP.Net MVC to node.

Using an anonymous object as the model for your Spark view

Well another post about Spark, I’ve been spending a couple of hours with the library and I really like it. On one of my previous posts Byron Sommardahl asked if it was possible to use an anonymous object as the model of your Spark view. I proposed a solution

Spark HTML generation fails: View source file not found

I use Spark as engine to generate all sorts of HTML but on Monday last week that specific code snippet failed without being changed. Spark indicated that it could not find the view file, so I checked and double checked that the view was in the correct place. This was

Using spark as a html/text rendering engine

I can't remember a project which I worked on that didn't have a requirement which included sending out emails. Most of the time the templates that are needed for these emails are so small that a simple text file with some wildcards does the trick. It

A Kindle DX or an iPad?

I love reading technical books, more than blog posts. They give you a better and deep insight in the matter you're reading about. The big problem is that, at best, these books are relevant for a few years and then can be thrown out. In January of this

Book review: Getting Real by 37 signals

If you're sick of reading book reviews, I'll give you the short version. If you are a project manager, designer, developer, entrepreneur or business analyst who is involved in creating a (web) application read this book. It's awesome. Now for the longer review: although

Permission to access webcam not asked by Silverlight 4 beta on load of page

I was playing around with the Silverlight 4 beta and was trying to get my webcam working by following this article. Although the code to achieve this is very simple, the webcam did not work in my *.aspx page which contains my Silverlight component. I googled and stackoverflowed around but

An alternative to editing JavaScript in Visual Studio: RubyMine

Unfortunately the images to this post were lost during the migration from Blogengine.Net to WordPress A while ago Chris Missal asked the following question on Twitter. One of the projects I am currently working on is a JavaScript intense web application. That’s why the question instantly caught my

Not another NDepend review, link roundup

I had the chance to try out NDepend, thanks to Patrick. After playing around with it I was pretty impressed and started writing a review of it. Out of curiosity I googled around a bit and found that there are already a lot of good reviews about it. I didn’

Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187

It has been quiet on this blog lately but I’ve been very busy with work. Between my busy schedule I’ve been trying to keep up on the technology front by listening to different podcasts. Although the quality of a lot of podcasts is highly dependant on the guest