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July 31, 2023
NodeJS 16 End of Life - Is it important?
NodeJS version 16 will no longer be supported after September 11th, 2023. This is 7 months earlier than initially planned. Why is it happening, what are the impacts, and do you need to upgrade? ...
August 11, 2018Reliably Accessing Relative Files in NodeJS
NodeJS can be confusing when accessing the filesystem via relative paths. Here is an overview of various ways of accessing the filesystem, and a simple solution to reliably load files anywhere in your project. ...
September 7, 2017React and Coffeescript (without JSX)
ReactJS is taking the web by storm. Annoyingly it comes with another Javascript preprocessor - JSX. If you are already in a coffeescript environment, then you can give React a try without needing to learn JSX or adding it to your toolchain. ...
August 1, 2017Sorting by date in MongoDB
Sorting by date is a simple task in MongoDB. But that doesn't man you have to spend valuable resources on indexing timestamps in MongoDB. Here I present a method to sort documents via the already indexed id field. ...
June 5, 2017Atlantec 2017
Atlantec is an annual conference on Software Devlopment held in Galway. This year it took place in NUIG on May 25th. There was a host of great presentations covering the hot topics of Docker, Microservices and Machine Learning, while also branching out into the wider world of technology including Mars Exploration and Soft Robots to support Heart Functions. ...