I have recently got a Giada N20 for our digital signage system. Before that we used older N10, but for the same price we get now a slimmer and newer device. For now they seem to be 100% compatible (at least for what we use them) the only problem was the “wake on power” feature, [...]

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My two simple opensource nodejs libraries “ping” and “portchecker” are available on npm.
Ping - is a simple wrapper for the system ping utility
Portchecker - allows you to perform some checks on open ports in a given host. you can use it for availability testing, getting a random non used port from a given range and [...]

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I am working on a bigger system monitoring application and one of things I had to create for this project, it’s a just published tcp port checker / scanner library for nodejs.
This little utility allows you to:
- check if a given port is being used
- get the first available port from a given range (useful [...]

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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, [...]

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So many projects (and there is also shame on me) suffer from delays when publishing. Amongst different problems that may cause it (bad project definition, changed specifications, previously unknown conditions and so on…) there is one that has probably killed more than one good project.
I am talking about “over-polishing”.
It happens when you secretly develop your [...]

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Sometimes I find myself doing some simple html project. Usually, it could be seen right from the hd using file://, but there are some stuff, that doesn’t necesarily work this way.
Instead of creating a new apache account etc. etc.. I found this simple line to create a http static server that server files from the [...]

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Virtual Private Networks can be very handy, but even with easy-rsa scripts it’s a little time taking to add new computers to the network, especially if you frecuently add new machines.
With this handy php script you can automate this process a little bit - you could for example publish it on a web server and [...]

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This is some good news for the cross-browser video support in html5. As you might already know, there is a video tag, that allows videos to be played in browsers without any third party plugins (like flash player, for example).
The problem was that browser developers could not agree on which codec should be used for [...]

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http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1
(check it out in a chrome browser - which seems to have most features implemented)

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éste es uno de los nuevos proyectos más prometedores que he visto últimamente. es un servidor de javascript, basado en la misma idea de callbacks que tiene por ejemplo Twisted de python.
según varias fuentes el servidor es rápido, permite muchos usuarios concurrentes y, lo que no es sin importancia, en muchos casos permite reusar el [...]

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