Mad Dash: a Node.js Application Dashboard
As a follow up to my previous blog post, where I showed how to set up a real-time console log web tail for your Node.js application, I will be demonstrating how to use socket.io to instrument a web application. This is not meant for production level code, but instead to serve as an example of how a developer could instrument their web application in a few short steps and how they could expand it without much effort.
A Live Look: How to Observe Your Node.js Application Logs in Real-Time
In this article, I’ll be demonstrating how you can add a “live” console web tail to your Node.js application hosted on BlueMix in a few easy steps without cluttering up your application code. We’ll be achieving this by overloading the Console object, something you find in almost every javascript program. This is a handy feature for real-time debugging as well as monitoring your running applications. It also serves as a prototype for modifying console statements or adding entirely new console types.
Deploying Ghost.js on IBM Bluemix
Ghost is a crowd funded open source Node.js application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time making your blog work and more time blogging.
the cf-env package for node.js
I've gotten tired of pulling various values from environment variables when I write my node.js apps for BlueMix, so I put together a small package that does most of the work for me. It's called cf-env, and is available in npm.
Using IBM.com as Open ID Provider in Node.JS
If you would like to be able to enable user's to login to your app with their ibm.com ID you can follow these simple steps.
Deploy a simple “Hello World” server written in JavaScript from the command line
I've put together a small project that implements a web server that you can deploy on BlueMix; it's about as small as you can get, and so, of course, doesn't do much. It displays "Hello World" on every single one of it's pages. So, not useful by itself, but I've tried to document the heck out of it, so you can at least see the nuts and bolts of deploying a node.js web server on BlueMix.
Deploy a Drupal Application on IBM BlueMix
Drupal is a free and open-source content management framework written in PHP. It is used as a back-end framework for at least 2.1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaborationIn order to have Drupal work on the IBM BlueMix Platform, do the following...
Deploy a WordPress Application on IBM Bluemix
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which runs on a web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. You can use Wordpress as a foundation of your web application to call social data APIs.
Develop a REST Service using Play and PostgreSQL on IBM Bluemix: Part One
This post will show how to use the Play framework with IBM BlueMix to develop and run a very simple REST style web application. The application supports APIs to create, retrieve, update and delete objects represented by JSON in HTTP requests. On the backend, the application connects to a BlueMix managed PostgreSQL database to persist and query data parsed out by the application from the HTTP requests.