Hello, I am Will Laurance

Selling a Product and not a Commodity

I want to sell products.

A New Start

It is a wonderful feeling to start a new chapter in life. Change is always a bit scary, but in my experience, the benefits always outweigh any interim anxiety created.

Managing Employee Risk

Recently I found out a close family friend lost her job. I do not know the specifics, but I know that it is a scary and frustrating time for her and her family. You hear about people losing their jobs often, but when it hits close to home, the impact reminds of us to reflect.

2014 - Lessons Learned

2014 was a great year. I grew my freelancing business, built some small products, and had fun. Here are three lessons I am taking with me in 2015.

Thinking Too Big - Ship Smaller Products

So I had an idea, like most people like me do. That itch you want to scratch for whatever reason.

Fun with Nodebots

This past Saturday, I participated in my first International Nodebots Day! I attended @norfolkjs's event located at 757 Makerspace.

Standing Desk Accomplished

In April I blasted out some goals to accomplish this year.

2014 Goals

Caution goal stating below.

Using PostgreSQL and Node

I'm using node-postgres, node-sql, and node-db-migrate to build a time tracking API, currently named tempus and it's a wonderful experience.

Life is too short, drink better coffee

tl;dr

node -e vs node -p

The difference between node -e and node -p is p will run the script through the interpretor and print the results. The -e will only evaluate the script. The time -e will print anything is if something writes to stdout or stderr.

Node.js Simple Progress Indicator Using Charm

Charm is a module used to write colors and cursor positions to a stream.

Nginx redirect for multiple virtual hosts

If you want to redirect traffic to a different subdomain, you can add a rewrite clause into each of your server{} entries in /etc/nginx/sites-avaliable/default or where ever you keep your available sites located.

Node.js documentation app

I am currently working on a node.js documentation app similiar to andnodejs. I really like andnodejs but the versions of node are not being updated with the app. But I figured why not just let the user choose which versions of node they would like to have installed. Nodoroid solves this problem by allowing the user to choose which version of the node documentaion they have. It also supports having as many versions as you would like. The view of docs will be in a similar manner to andnodejs.