[nodejs] `crypto.Hash` digest endianness

on at the moment? Did the port to MIPs ever happen? Anyone running Node.js on an ARM in big-endian mode? Any past dicussions in Node.js land of endianness and woe? -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List

[nodejs] No `end` Event Emitted from stream.Transform

By my reading of the documentation, I'm expecting an `end`. Any insight would be appreciated. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you

Re: [nodejs] No `end` Event Emitted from stream.Transform

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:29:29PM -0400, Alan Gutierrez wrote: Attempting to create a `crypto.Hash` stream.o https://github.com/bigeasy/hash/blob/master/hash.djb/index.js I've implemented `_transform` and `_flush` and called the callbacks provided. The base class of `StreamHash` class

Re: [nodejs] Re: Embedded pure javascript database that aims to be close compatible to MongoDB

so people can implement pure-JavaScript databases on top of Node.js. The domain-specific Node.js database is going to be a thing. Node.js is going to mean database. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki

Re: [nodejs] Blogs and Further Reading?

out? I recently asked about blogs in this listserv. I really enjoyed the responses. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/lfka7YtNUZA/jGzZ5-12d7sJ -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting

Re: [nodejs] Embedded pure javascript database that aims to be close compatible to MongoDB

-JavaScript embedded MongoDB clone that could scale just as well as MongoDB. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed

[nodejs] Node.js ES6

Is it time to start using ES6 in Node.js libraries hosted on NPM? Or is ES6 going to be the new CoffeeScript? -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message

Re: [nodejs] Embedded pure javascript database that aims to be close compatible to MongoDB

-JavaScript for for Node.js. I believe Node.js is the language that is going to give rise to the domain-specific database, databases that are easy to extend and hack. I'd be happy to help you to create Strata-based storage for TingoDB. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http

[nodejs] Parallel operations and error-first callbacks.

/blob/master/diary.md#what-do-nodejs-veterans-expect-from-an-error-first-callback -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed

[nodejs] Easiest Way to Slurp a GET

wondering if there isn't something in the core that does this already, or if there is a terse idiom for string slurping that I'm not aware of. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines

[nodejs] Show Me Your Blog

make a gist or something. It's no fun to just post something in a vacuum, so what do you do to solicit feedback? Is there anything that people do to solicit feedback that annoys you? -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com

Re: [nodejs] meaning of the semver ~

. semver.satisfies('1.2', '1.3.0') E. semver.satisfies('1.2', '1.2.4') please don't look at the documentation, the question is: what do you think it means? A. Yes. B. No. C. Yes. D. No. E. No. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https

Re: [nodejs] List of Environments and Hardware Hack Projects

, we eventually moved to RPi instead of Digi; easier to source. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [nodejs] List of Environments and Hardware Hack Projects

-bit, but not 32-bit. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups nodejs group. To post to this group, send

[nodejs] String Stream

I need a stream that will gather it's results in a buffer or string for testing. I'm sure that someone has written one already. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You

Re: [nodejs] String Stream

('ghoulie goo'); pt.end() assert.equal(pt.read(), 'foobar\nghoulie goo') That is perfect, thank you. It is long past the time for me to learn about the new streams. -- Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki

Re: [nodejs] Re: How would you do this: schedule events

(multiplied by 1000 to convert to milliseconds). First you need to convert the local time to UTC. See: https://github.com/bigeasy/timezone -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You

Re: [nodejs] Running NodeJs inside JVM

with Node.js than with Java. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy On 12/7/12 7:14 PM, Rick Waldron wrote: I believe Nashorn purports to be a Node compatible JS engine on the JVM https://oracleus.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=6661tclass=popup http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27

[nodejs] Unable to send millisecond timeout.

for at least a millisecond before invoking its callback. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups nodejs group

Re: [nodejs] Re: Keeping semantics in your version numbers, i.e. please don't release major version zero

-release for the intrepid. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://github.com/bigeasy - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [nodejs] Crockford : Ynode : I would fork node.js

would fork it, and, I would then give that back to the community, and it would be industrial strength and secure and designed to operate a Yahoo scale and would make it available for everybody for free Crockford uses Yahoo! as a trolling platform. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http

Re: [nodejs] Re: Giving up on node.js / Flatiron / hook.io

that this circumstance makes him sad. It makes me sad. I don't understand your vindictiveness. It's really off putting. Reads like a craven display of deference to authority to me. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent

Re: [nodejs] Re: best testing framework?

I created Proof... https://github.com/bigeasy/proof It is nice to have your own test framework. You spend so much time and attention on testing, you're going to be plauged with insights as to how testing should be done. Creating my own test framework helps me to be my own programmer. -- Alan

Re: [nodejs] Why `fs.exists` has signature `(exists)` instead of `(err, exists)` ?

anyone uses it, they are told not to, because checking for existence is an anti-pattern, and `stat` is better. That is a waste of community energy: having a bright shinny function that draws newbies like moths, only to have the community zap them when they use it. It it a test? -- Alan Gutierrez

[nodejs] Creating Proper Benchmarks

of `node-bench` like throwing away the best and worst run? (Found `visualbench` and plan on using it.) -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received

Re: [nodejs] Creating Proper Benchmarks

up for creating a benchmarking framework? Is the ease of use jsperf.com misleading? Ideally, I'd like a report that says, all things being equal, a is faster than b. I can reason about whether all things will always be equal separately. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board

[nodejs] Buffer Overflow

, what was the reasoning behind do nothing? -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [nodejs] Counting on Object Insertion Order

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 06:34:45PM -0700, Martin Cooper wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Alan Gutierrez a...@prettyrobots.com wrote: Have you ever written Node.js code that counts on the implementation specific Object behavior that mantains the insertion order of properties

Re: [nodejs] Buffer Overflow

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:31:32AM -0700, Nathan Rajlich wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Alan Gutierrez a...@prettyrobots.com wrote: When I write beyond the end of a `Buffer`, nothing bad happens. I'm expecting a earth-shattering kaboom, or at least an exception. I'm happier

Re: [nodejs] Introduction to libuv

! Thank you very much. Great contribution. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups nodejs group. To post

Re: [nodejs] Re: Dependency injection for Node.js. What do you think?

deferring decisions by programming to interfaces, but instead making a commitment to a dependency. C# and Java are afraid of commitment, they see it as a potential hostage situation. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://github.com/bigeasy - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org

Re: [nodejs] Re: Standard Test Runner for Node

you your test program, then report any errors in detail. http://travis-ci.org/#!/bigeasy/cadence/jobs/1857606 I'll have to consider how domains fit into the library. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://github.com/bigeasy - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting

[nodejs] Abnormal Exit

to indicate that the error does not involve a stack trace. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://github.com/bigeasy - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you

Re: [nodejs] Abnormal Exit

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 01:25:50PM +1200, Dominic Tarr wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Alan Gutierrez a...@prettyrobots.com wrote: I'm writing command line utilities in Node.js. Here's a snippet that is a source of some concern for me. try { options = require('arguable

[nodejs] Streams to and from Browser

I could have swore I *just* saw a project that exposes the Stream API to the browser so that you can use things like `event-stream` on the browser to communicate with the server. It looked like it came out of NodeConf. I even think I bookmarked it. Or was it all a dream? -- Alan Gutierrez - http

Re: [nodejs] Streams to and from Browser

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:38:02PM -0700, Andrew Lunny wrote: On 12 July 2012 11:58, Alan Gutierrez a...@prettyrobots.com wrote: I could have swore I *just* saw a project that exposes the Stream API to the browser so that you can use things like `event-stream` on the browser

[nodejs] Inherit Versus Pipe

When you use spawn, is there any substantial difference between piping the spawned program stdout to the console and inheriting the parents stdout? I know that tty.istty will return false for the stdout of the child. What other behaviors will change? -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com

Re: [nodejs] Re: [ANN] node-xml-lite

to move back to a byte the high-bit and that is the last character in the string, or else the top two are set and the previous byte is last byte in the string. Then you carry over any bytes you've not used to the next buffer. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com

[nodejs] '\r' in a console on Windows

that printing '\r' without '\n' to the Windows console (in this case PowerShell) will allow you to overwrite the line. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List

Re: [nodejs] Re: Defining a variable, difference btw node REPL and .js/require

. Works well. It removes one level of annoyance. You don't need to assign each member of the `simpletags` hash to a variable, but it isn't the full magic you're looking for, where all of the variables magically appear. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://github.com/bigeasy - http://twitter.com/bigeasy

Re: [nodejs] Re: Defining a variable, difference btw node REPL and .js/require

('simpletags')(function (tags) { with (tags) { html(head(title('')), body(h1('...')); } }); -- Alan Gutierrez - http://github.com/bigeasy - http://twitter.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List

[nodejs] Parallel Async Calls and Parallel Errors

study? Do any of the event emitters in the Node.js API emit a series of errors, or is it just one error prior to entering an error state? -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent

[nodejs] XML DOM Libraries

, however xmldom focuses more directly on what I need to accomplish, parse XML, not HTML, on the server side using W3 XML DOM. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki

Re: [nodejs] Re: XML DOM Libraries

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 03:29:54PM -0700, MD wrote: On Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:17:24 UTC+1, Alan Gutierrez wrote: I'd like to parse XML and manipulate it on the server using W3C XML DOM, so that the code can be shared with the browser. I've begun working with https://github.com/jindw

Re: [nodejs] process.env.hasOwnProperty

On 6/30/12 2:17 AM, Brandon Benvie wrote: Unterminated string literals ಠ_ಠ I don't understand this at all. I'd really appreciate a link, because all Google talks about are errors. How are Unterminated string literals offloading the need to treat an API as asynchronous. -- Alan Gutierrez

Re: [nodejs] spawn and stdout in 8.1

like it wouldn't be too bad. :) Done. https://github.com/rsms/node-imagemagick/pull/47 -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [nodejs] Re: trying to wrap my head around promises - async vs Q

library, I find that code gets cryptic when it gets complicated; precisely the time it is best to be clear. The real work is being done behind a curtain. I miss the names when they aren't there. This is complexity I want to see. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com

Re: [nodejs] Re: Closures versus Prototypes for Flow Control

be in Spidermonkey, then it would be worth questioning the costs of closures. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received

Re: [nodejs] Re: Closures versus Prototypes for Flow Control

the better, therefore I want to be as clear as possible. Thank you for correcting me in the nicest way possible. I appreciate the correction. I'm happy to learn the correct the nomenclature. I might even start to sound like I know what I'm talking about. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com

[nodejs] Closures versus Prototypes for Flow Control

time to create a convoluted new async pattern to second-guess V8. -- Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy - http://github.com/bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message

Re: [nodejs] Re: .bind performance (Was Re: context (thisness) to EventEmitter#on, process.nextTick, etc)

On 6/9/12 2:11 AM, Brandon Benvie wrote: Part of the slowdown is because builtin bind has to handle construct as well. But yeah, V8's bind is *notably* slow when you do a comparison of either a full manual implementation of bind semantics yourself, or compared to say Spidermonkey. I'm not sure

Re: [nodejs] problems with changing process.env.TZ at runtime

with this. Timezone will address problems like one you mention above. It will generate the correct time for any timezone string since the dawn of standard time and into the future. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing

Re: [nodejs] Re: Callback Style Preference

, no, this is different from the callbacks your learned about in `fs`, error handling is a separate event? -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because

Re: [nodejs] Streaming asynchronous template engine

to the template. A big issue is that if there is an error in your template, there's no way to report it if you've already started streaming 200 OK. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting

Re: [nodejs] I have a proposal!!

. Then you're going to need a way to remap the default exports. Pretty soon you're going to have Perl. Actually, I am you're more likely to devolve into PHP, a global namespace full of suprises. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https

Re: [nodejs] Streaming asynchronous template engine

happens inside a template-tag, display that error (bold and in red), probably say 'sorry' and log it with a full stacktrace. I would never consider that an acceptable user experience. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node

Re: [nodejs] database initialization pattern?

: https://github.com/mgutz/mygrate I thought it had the right goals. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [nodejs] standard content-type for streaming JSON (newline delimited JSON objects)?

. The checksum algorithm is any algorithm that emits a number. Basically, checksummed frames of newline delimited JSON. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received

Re: [nodejs] Re: partial reads fs.read, partial writes and fs.write

On 5/23/12 11:10 AM, Isaac Schlueter wrote: Yes, it happens. In fact, it can happen quite often when you'er doing a lot of large-ish reads and writes in parallel, and if you don't account for it, then it does indeed suck. That's why we have the fs.readFile and fs.writeFile functions for the

[nodejs] partial reads fs.read, partial writes and fs.write

If I call fs.read using a buffer that is equal to or smaller than the size of a file, will fs.read ever return a value for bytesRead that is less than the size of the buffer to the callback? If I call fs.write using a buffer that is equal to or smaller than the size of a file, will fs.write

[nodejs] Timezone/Locale and Formatted Dates

If I wanted to format a `Date` in Node.js, with a format string of my design, using an arbitrary combination of locale and IANA timezone, how would I go about doing this? -- Alan - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines:

Re: [nodejs] Resumable MD5 Hash Algorithm

I would be very interested in seeing resumable hashes and CRCs in the core API. Is this something that could happen? -- Alan - @bigeasy On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:46 AM, Rong Shen wrote: I've resoved this by using SparkMD5 (https://github.com/satazor/ SparkMD5) , and use the psedo-code below:

Re: [nodejs] Re: Secure distribution of NodeJS applications

. -- Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups nodejs group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs