So last night via DZone I get word that Node.js had released a Windows version of the popular Javascript based server environment around the 14th of July. Checking from their site, version 0.5.2 was out, being the second currently unstable release for Windows at the moment. I could not hold back my excitement as I do not run Linux, and we use Node.js extensively in my workplace. I just had to try
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