Ian Oxley

Ian Oxley

Ian Oxley has been building stuff on the Web professionally since 2004. He works for Sage in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and can often be found attending local user groups and meetups. He's been known to speak at them on occasion too. When he's not in front of a computer Ian can be found playing guitar, or talking photos. But not usually at the same time.

Ian Oxley

jQuery makes event handling in JavaScript easy. However, the more event handlers you define, the more memory you use, which can end up decreasing performance and making the UI sluggish. This article... Read More
 
Bower is a package manager for the browser. Developed by Twitter, and available via npm, it means the days of manually managing your client-side JavaScript packages could soon be a thing of the past.Read More
 
node
http-console is a Node module that gives you a command-line interface for executing HTTP commands. It’s great for debugging and seeing exactly what is going on with your HTTP requests,... Read More
 
 

Express Yourself

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Express is a web framework for Node, inspired by the Sinatra framework for Ruby. It boasts loads of features, high performance, and comes with a handy executable for creating applications quickly. In... Read More
 
node js
In this article we’re going to look at setting up a static file server using Node. There’s plenty of modules available to help us do this, but we’re going to focus on three of them:... Read More
 
In this, the latest in the Looking Outside Ruby series, we’re going to have a look at server-side JavaScript with Node. What is Node? Node is a set of libraries that enable JavaScript to run... Read More
Haml is an X H TML A bstraction M arkup L anguage that, according to haml-lang.com : functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ASP, and ERB It can be used in many... Read More