Node.js and Server-Side JavaScript (Changelog Interviews #20)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• NodeJS “First server-side JavaScript implementation you’d actually like to use”
• Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js
• C64 The official home computer of the 80s
• CakePHP CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.
• Ubuntu Upstart Daemonize your Node
• Google V8 Google’s open source JavaScript engine.
• ECMAScript International standardization of JavaScript family of languages
• WebSockets HTML5 protocol for two-way communication with a remote host
• Do from Tim Caswell simple async JavaScript library
• HowToNode.org Learn Node.js via an open blog featured on Episode 0.1.7
• Kiwi Node.js package management system inspired by RubyGems
• Express.js High performance, high class web development for Node.js with a Ruby flavor
• Fab Rack-esque framework for Node.js
• CommonJS aims to fill gaps by defining APIs in a standard library as rich as those in Python, Ruby, and Java
• jspec BDD for JavaScript
• Transloadit Because uploads and video encoding sucks
• JSConf 2010 Arrrrrrr you going to THE JavaScript conference?
• node-dirty NoSQL for the little man
• berlinjs JavaScript user group in Berlin

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