Frameworks are like the geniuses of different disciplines standing behind you as you venture out into the wild with your creations. They are (usually) the distillations of methods that have worked well to achieve specific results that you can apply to get the same excellence without the experimentation that went into it. I see this area of my site as my temple to excellence, where I humbly pay my respects to these greats that continue to teach me something new each time I delve into them and their talented and generous creators.
Meteor is a javascript server that does interesting things like live updating your live blog with far less load on your server than without it. However, setting it up is iffy, and the instructions are not idiot proof. So here are the steps distilled from my hits and misses, so that you may not have … Read more