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Been hacking in Node.js and am really enjoying the saneness of this dev environment.
Some handy links before I forget :
- howto.no.de articles – especially Part I, II and III of ‘Learning Javascript with Object Graphs’
- Joyeur blogs – people working for Joyent on Node / DTrace / Solaris
- no.de Joyent Node hosting [ built atop - 'open' solaris, ZFS, DTrace ]
- NodeJitsu blog
- npm.mape.me – searchable Node.js Modules list
- connect-it guide – web framework with chained middleware layers
- express guide – article on express web framework for Node
- eventserver – Tom Lee’s internet tee piping for notifications
In other news.. Im hacking over ssh via a long thin pipe to my linode server – using a very erratic mobile broadband connection, arrgh!
Cant wait for ADSL to _finally_ be connected here, so I can watch Bryan Cantrill talk about Cloud Analytics :]
As an aside.. why Javascript? Consider
- Javascript is a totally distinct language from Java
- Javascript deserves its bum rap.. to mis-quote Dame Judi Dench, its bad parts are “arse-clench-ingly” bad :]
- The good parts of Javascript feel very nice, like a modern lisp inspired language, fairly concise, many valid idioms
- V8 js engine is fast
- Javascript callback mechanism fits async event IO really well
- Node.js embodies the above bullet point into a fine server development environment
- JSON, the Javascript native data format, is all the good things of XML with none of the bad
- feels like a unix-like web-plumbing philosophy
- can keep the same language syntax hat on when writing front end web apps and back end servers
