23rd November 2009 I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, APIs and cross-domain security) three days before the event in favour of a technology which first crossed my radar less than two weeks ago. That technology is Ryan Dahl’s Node. It’s the most exciting new project I’ve come ac
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