jQuery has been going strong and steady but is no longer as popular as it used to be. It’s still good for beginners to use but there are many alternatives nowadays. One major change in jQuery v2 was the removal of IE8 support and now we’re about to have version 3.0 Before 3.0, version 2.2 was released February 22, 2016 which… read more
This is an overview comparing Node.JS frameworks including Express, Sails, HAPI and Lazo.js. Express is clearly the most popular currently version 4 at the time of this writing. The next framework gaining popularity is Sails currently at version 0.10 with 124 code contributors since its inception in 2012. Sails is not an independent framework on its own, because it uses… read more
This was about the biggest hackathon in the east coast or possibly in the entire nation with a record amount of attendees in the hundreds. Only 160 teams presented with teams ranging from 1-4 people. For me it was my first one and I was a bit skeptical at first. Prior to this I’ve heard of companies holding hackathons and… read more