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Node.js is a platform for running JavaScript (ECMAScript) that is powered by Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine, V8. V8 pushed JavaScript forward in terms of speed when it was first released, but hasn’t been keeping up with the accelerated pace of the ECMAScript Standard. We’ll likely see a new release of the spec every year, but V8 is lagging far behind Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey and Microsoft’s Chakr

Every once in a while something new comes along that just feels right. When this happens, I get a tingly feeling in my left pinky toe. That’s how I know it’s not just a fad. It’s how I know it’s legit. My pinky toe has a pretty decent track record: It first tingled when I moved an element on the page with jQuery. It tingled when Backbone.js came out. I blogged about it in 2010 It tingled when I pu

As a portion of our elaborate training events I give a short talk about JS frameworks. I've shied away from posting many of my opinions about frameworks online because it tends to stir the pot, hurt people's feelings, and unlike talking face to face, there's no really great, bi-directional channel for rebuttals. But, I've been told that it was very useful and helped provide a nice, quick overview

Introducing Ampersand.js a highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps. Why!?! We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple code and it solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. We wanted something similar in style and philosophy, but that fully embr