A Sneak Peek at BoxLang’s Module Feature

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Last week I attended and spoke at Into the Box, a conference hosted by the Ortus folks, the company behind BoxLang. While there, I attended a talk from Brad Wood on how BoxLang’s module system works. I’ve been using modules with BoxLang since I first started playing with it. It’s how database support is added, mail, PDF, and more. You can see a list of currently released modules here. I had been curious as to how this works so I was excited for Brad’s presentation. While hearing him go over the details, I got even more excited, and literally built a ‘hello world’ module in a minute or so while he talked. I’m calling this blog post a "sneak peek"... more →
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Super Useful NPM Module – Open

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Forgive the samewhat lame title, and this will be a quick little post, but I’ve recently been using such an incredibly helpful npm module I wanted to share it with others. open by Sindre Sorhus (you must click that link and look at their incredible GitHub profile) is a simple, but powerful utility that… opens things. Ok, that sounds rather obvious, but what it means in practice is that your Node code can open a resource on your computer with the associated app. (It can also open up an app by itself if you want.) I can’t tell you how many scripts I’ve written that generate file-based results, or URL-hosted results, that I then double-click to open. This one little utility... more →
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