• Automate Your Development Environment With Vagrant

    Automate Your Development Environment With Vagrant

    Vagrant leverages virtualization and automated system configuration to deliver you customized virtual environments for your development projects. With VirtualBox and its comprehensive API under the hood, Vagrant creates and manages custom virtual environments to your exact specification. But wait, we’ve been able to create virtual machines for years. What’s new here? The problem is configuration of a brand new virtual macine for each project is a massive chore, reinstalling all of your dev tools each time sounds like torture, and developers will still each want VMs of different operating systems…what are we solving? Vagrant does it differently. By giving you the option to leverage powerful, proven automated configuration technologies such as Chef or Puppet (as well as your own custom shell scripts, if you like), Vagrant takes the time and tedium out of configuring a virtual environment

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  • Node.js Tutorial: Hello, World!

    Node.js Tutorial: Hello, World!

    This is the introductory screencast from my online course, Learn Node.js by Example! In this screencast, I present the basics of Node.js, and develop a small “Hello, World!” app. Enjoy!

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  • Screencast: Node.js and MongoDB Using MongoJS

    Screencast: Node.js and MongoDB Using MongoJS

    Here is a free screencast from my online course, Learn Node.js by Example! In this screencast, I present the basics of using the MongoJS module to add MongoDB to your Node.js applications. Enjoy!

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  • Using Socket.io With Express 3.x

    Using Socket.io With Express 3.x

    Excited about version 3.x of Express, the Node.js web framework? It has some great new features, and is certainly worth migrating to. Many of my apps make use of Socket.io, one of my favorite Node modules, and in this case, and as of now (Socket.io v9.1) the migration isn’t as smooth as it could be. Until socket.io catches up with the changes to Express, here’s how you can use it with Express 3.x.

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About Me

 

I’m Constantine Aaron Cois, a software engineer in Pittsburgh, PA. I have an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where my work was in algorithm and software development for medical image analysis. I’m currently leading a team of software developers for CERT at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. I’m also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University

I consider myself a polyglot programmer, working with technologies such as Python, Django, Redis, MongoDB, Node.js, C#, .NET MVC, Java, Ruby on Rails, Android, and more on a regular basis. I’m interested in software development, tech and many other geeky things.

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