Asynchronous Test Loops With Mocha Using it-each

Nowadays people are using Mocha more and more for testing their JavaScript/NodeJS code. One major limitation of Mocha is that there is no real way to loop tests asynchronously and maintain the ability to keep track of what's happening (such as realising which iteration a test fai…

Redirecting An InputStream To An OutputStream In Java

After working with NodeJS, Streams have always been an annoyance for me in Java (especially when I was first learning), simply due to the fact that you had to wait for the input to buffer and be fed through the abstract read() method of the InputStream interface. Most examples ar…

Migrating From Subversion To Git The Easy Way

Until recently, I was a big fan of using Subversion for most of my private projects. Now, however, I'd rather be using Git. This is all well and good for new projects, but how do I move the mature projects from my repository to Git (specifically GitHub)? Turns out, it's actually…

Sorting An Object Recursively By Key In Node.JS/JavaScript

Sorting an object is one of those little things which nobody ever considers useful to know (until it becomes so), but it's proven particularly useful to me in the last few months - not necessarily for the comparison of two objects at runtime (which, thankfully, there are much qui…

Handling Synchronous Asynchronous Loops In Javascript/Node.JS

One of the most lovable (yet frustrating) things about JavaScript and Node.js is the use of Asynchronous functions and the callback based system. Several times I've found myself wanting to halt for things to complete instead of sending off a bunch of processes all at once - an ex…

How To Remap The Android Power Button Elsewhere

I figured this was probably something that people might find useful as when searching for a possible solution myself I came across a massive Google groups post with no good on how to remap the power button on an Android device! Basically, the other day my Nexus S Power button ran…