Gjermund Bjaanes


A blog about Innovation and Technology

Avoid global npm installs for projects

Have you ever required gulp or grunt or something similar to be installed globally to be able to build a web project? You probably require npm as well? And possibly bower?

Having these kinds of global requirements is not healthy, nor is it very helpful. It’s much harder to get started with a project if there are many steps you have to follow, just to get all the requirements installed.


Smart home series – Part 1 – Learning MQTT and buying stuff

Since last time I have worked a little bit on making some progress with my smart house project. I have been doing some reading, as well as some buying.


Picks of the month – September 2015

Welcome to Picks of the month, where I share a few things I have found useful the last month.

It can be anything from blog posts and software tools to books and techniques.


Smart home series – Part 0 – Starting point

Welcome to a brand new series on making my home smart!

This series is all about IoT, embedded devices and smart appliances. I am going to take you through my journey within all of these exiting things!


Performing a REST call from Protractor e2e tests

I am currently trying to get some good end-to-end (e2e with protractor,  which is a great tool!) tests running for my Angular app ‘Extreme Results’.

I very quickly found a big problem. How do I clean up my database between tests and test-runs?