Writing

A guide to using Node.js for developing command line interface (CLI) applications. In it, I create a utility for setting up Git repositories.

In this article I take a fictional driving instructor's website and modernize it by integrating real-time availability checking, booking and scheduling via the third-party Acuity Scheduling service and using Vue.js.

Dropzone.js is a modern JavaScript-powered widget for file uploads, including drag n' drop" functionality. In this tutorial I take a look at it, and show how to use it and build a simple upload handler using Express.

An introduction to web application monitoring - what should you monitor? What do you need to consider? How do you interpet the results?

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is much easier to implement in a PHP application than you might think. In this in-depth tutorial, I show how you can use the open-source Tesseract library to do just that.

An in-depth tutorial on using the open-source computer imaging library OpenCV to build a face detection application in Node.js.

In the second of a two-part series on TransloadIt, a file-processing service, I show how you can build a user avatar component using Node.js.

In the first of a two-part series on TransloadIt, a file-processing service, I look at some of the key concepts.

Continuing my look at RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language, I introduce a couple of ways in which you can incorporate it into your API testing. Not only can it be used to check that API responses are as expected, but it can also be used to mock them to assist your testing processes.

RAML is a way of documenting RESTful API's. A RAML document can be used to automatically generate API documentation, can be used by way of a specification or it can even be used to test against. In this article I take a look at it.