Calvin Bushor: Archive

Mar 23rd

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Start Your Engines!.... But, I Need Some Fuel...

I have found that one of the hardest things to do is to restart a project you have not touched in a few months. I sit down, open my laptop and look at the monstrosity I created and I try and figure out where the hell I left off. What were all my amazing ideas and what issue was I trying to solve? It is like when you leave the house and forgot to put the dog away and he decided to have a party...

Mar 23rd

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Interviewing People == House Shopping

Lately, I have been doing two things… interviewing people and house shopping. I have determined that the emotions you go through are very similar for both events, hence the use of double equals (my programmer friends get it). When interviewing a person, I am very optimistic. I go into each interview thinking this is the person for our team and I am excited to see what they have to offer....

Dec 12th

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jitsu deploy issues with bcrypt and Node v0.6.x

Yesterday I tried to deploy the first part of an application on nodejitsu using their command line tool jitsu and ran into some problems. I thought I would share what my issues were, what the fix was and my experience with the nodejitsu crew. The Issue: I have been working locally and went to deploy to nodejitsu and it would not deploy. I kept getting a 500 error from the deploy which did not...

Nov 27th

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http://instatagged.jit.su

I just finished presenting about #Nodejs at #1devday and it was so much fun. That means, I can finally share the app I built for it. It is called Instatagged and it displays images in real time from the Instagram API based on whatever tag you wish to look at. URL: http://instatagged.jit.su It’s on github! Check it out!

Nov 17th

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Nov 17th

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Super Simple External Links Script

I just released my really simple external link setter on GitHub. All it does is loop over all of the anchors passed in, checks the host of the element against the page you are on and if there is not a match, adds attribute target=”_blank” to it. It isn’t for everyone but it is useful for adding this functionality quickly to a site.

Oct 8th

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Tumblr RSS Client Side JS Parser

I just published my Client Side Tumblr RSS Parser to github. It is designed for people who do not have a backend that can connect to Tumblr on the server side but still want to display the content of an RSS feed from a tumblr site. You can see it in action on my personal website, calvinbushor.com. Go ahead and clone the repo, see what you think and submit a pull request to fix my bugs. Calvin...

Oct 5th

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My New #NODE Web App

I just launched the new CalvinBushor.com! I rebuilt it using Nodejs, expressjs, LESS App, @stubbornella’s OOCSS Techniques, #RWD, and a couple custom jQuery plugins I wrote. I deployed the new CalvinBushor.com on nodejitsu using their command line tool jitsu which, by the way, is awesome. It is easy to set up and deploying is a synch, just type “jitsu deploy” from the root...

Oct 5th

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I am speaking at #1DevDay in #Detroit!

Hello everyone, I have been picked to be a speaker at 1DevDay in November. My presentation is titled “Oh NODE you didn’t” and I will be going over some of the things that make NodeJS awesome. You can see a description of my talk on the sessions page. There will be some great talks at this conference from a broad spectrum of speakers and topics. Heck, there will be a guy there...

Sep 28th

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NodeJS Day 100+

Over the past few months I have been writing an API in Node for an application I am attempting to build. Here five pro-tips that I have learned that I thought I would share with you. 1) In Express, use the built in route parameters for dynamic routes. It’s really powerful! app.get(‘/user/:id’, function(req, res) { res.send(‘user ‘(req, res){...

Aug 24th

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Jul 29th

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Where Have I Been????

Hey You Guysssss!!!! I have been MIA for a long time and I apologize to the two of you who care. I have been extremely busy with my work and personal life but I still have been making time for my hacking skills. Here is a quick update of all the things I have been doing. Kentucky fun time with @mrwizzard and @princessKT! Cleveland fun time with @princessKT! Writing Node. Going to @DetNode...

Jun 5th

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Jan 21st

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25 and just now learning how to shave

I have always had a hard time shaving. I get bad irritation and I never looked forward to shaving so I would put it off. I often wear long stubble and sometimes, too long of stubble due to my hatred of shaving. During one of the usual lunch conversations at work, @duanel and @yodasw16 told me to invest in a safety razor, “it will change your shaving life,” they said. So, this year...

Dec 29th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 13th

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#nodejs Day Four

Today I attempted to utilize Mongodb in my Node app but it has been very challenging for me because I do not have a ton of DB experience. I think I might have a total of 10 hours of DB exp counting today if that helps put things in perspective for you. Mongodb intrigues me though because it uses JSON style schemas which to me, makes total sense. I tried out their tutorial on their site which I...

Dec 5th

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Dec 1st

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Brad Colbow's Tumblr: My SEO Secret Sauce →

This is a great response and it is very true about SEO and why content is king. bcolbow: I was emailed recently by someone asking how my site does so well in Google. They probably noticed that I don’t use meta-tags, I sometimes forget to put alt text on images and I’m not jamming every page with keywords. If you study up on SEO tactics you’ll see that I ignore most of them. Here is…

Nov 29th

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NodeJS Day Three (My first app in prod)

So I think I am officially in love with NodeJS. I have picked up so much over only a week of on and off goofing around with Node. There is a ton of great documentation and tools out there to learn from that it makes developing in Node so simple. So far I have successfully: Installed Node Installed NPM Used NPM to install different packages Tried Grasshopper MVC for Node Tried Express MVC for...

Nov 29th

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NodeJs Day Two

Today I have been playing with Node a little more and I am liking it more and more. I started to play with an MVC called Grasshopper which seemed right up my ally because it was easy to install and get going but I kept on having issues with routing and populating placeholders. Also, there wasn’t a ton of documentation which kind of turned me off. Then, I tried out Express. It was easy to...

Nov 21st

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Nov 11th

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Nov 11th

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Nov 11th

Nov 10th

NodeJS day one

Today was my first exposure to NodeJS. Overall I would say, I am excited. I think there is a lot of potential there but so far, all that potential is over my head. I talked with @kevinswiber and @kevino80 about #Node for about two seconds on Twitter but they quickly pointed me to @DetNode, a Detroit NodeJS user group. I am excited to hear from them for our first meet up because I will need...

Nov 9th

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So Close to Finishing

I have been working on the redesign of my site, calvinbushor.com, for a few weeks now. I have gone through four or five different designs, tried two different MVC frameworks, wrote and rewrote markup and css, and, I have experimented with various techniques and technologies. What’s remaining is a couple of content pages and a lot of touch ups but below are some sneak peaks of the soon to...

Nov 7th

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Get off the computer

Sometimes you need to force yourself off the computer but it just seems so impossible when you need to most. Something that’s worked for me is, start with a full battery and lock away your charger (mobile device required). Give your charger to your wife, girlfriend, roommate, or have some strong will and just say, when it dies, it’s time to get off. That’s it. It’s...

Oct 18th

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Working on my new site design

Right now I am in process of working on my new site. @yodasw16 is helping me really grasp OOCSS and fluid design in the process. Here is a little sneak peek of what I have going on so far. Notice the background… oh yea baby, css3 linear gradients!!! I also wrote a cool javascript utility for pulling in the Tumblr RSS feed and parses it into the various post types.

Oct 17th

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Watch

This should be my last test post. I needed a landscape orientation video.

Oct 14th

Again, this is a test. Not useful to you at all.

Oct 14th

This is also a test

I am trying to write a plugin right now and I needed this type of post available to me. So yea, this is not useful to you at all.

Oct 14th

Watch

This is a test video to try out a plugin I am writing for my updated site. It’s coming along, slowly but surely.

Oct 14th

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Oct 7th

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Oct 6th

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me—Going to bed at night...”

– Steve Jobs (via kauf) What an inspirational person. #SteveJobs

Oct 6th

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Sep 23rd

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Sep 1st

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“Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other...”

– Dali Lama (via tonyfahkry)

Aug 25th

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Jul 22nd

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6 Month Recap

It has been a long time since I have written a post, minus posting pictures from the day in the life, so here is a short recap of the last 6 months. Went to An Event Apart Boston with @yodasw16 and had my mind blown. Created a TypeKit and an About.me account. Bought a MacBook Air two months before they just released the new ones (ouch). Wrote an unpublished jQuery plugin. Created a GIT...

Jul 22nd

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Jul 10th

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Jul 9th

Jul 4th

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