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Everyone knows it, but few people acknowledge it: Mobile web browsers absolutely suck. Technologists are launching commercial space flights, mapping the human genome, and building flexible computer displays, yet we still haven’t figured out the right way to use a …
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Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native.
Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days. They’ll start with 40 percent …
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Today, Yahoo is open-sourcing Mojito, a bit of software that uses JavaScript and Node.js to run a single codebase on both the client and server side.
Mojito is one of a few Node-centric projects Yahoo’s been brewing. Collectively called Cocktails, …
Ryan Dahl, the hacker who brought the world Node.js, is turning over the reins to Joyent’s Isaac Schlueter.
Dahl, who started working on the Node project in 2009, stated in a Google Groups post Monday, “After three years of working …
Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js.
Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you …
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When the scale of your application is “everyone on the Internet,” you have to think a bit differently about adopting new technologies.
At the Node Summit today, a bevy of “big boy” company executives gathered to chat about Node.js, the …
Node.js has been the delight of San Francisco hackers for the past couple years now, but startups and indie developers aren’t the only ones using JavaScript on the server side.
At Node Summit today, Walmart executives talk about why the …
Guest Post
Node.js has been getting great press for being used to build real-time web applications and fast networking tools that help big web sites run and scale.
But is Node just as good a fit for web agencies and developers that …
Hanging out with Paul Querna, a longtime Node.js core contributor and Rackspace’s systems architect, is more fun than a basket of kittens.
In this video interview, he and I chat about how far Node has come in a relatively short …
Node.js became the most popular code repository on Github over the holiday weekend.
With 11,460 watchers as of this writing, the Node repo now has more attention than Rails, which has 11,274 watchers.
For all you who’ve been trumpeting that …
Facebook is finally launching its iPad application and will be doing so at Apple’s October 4th event, rumored to be the release of the iPhone 5.
According to Mashable‘s sources, the social network may also introduce its latest iPhone app, …
“I don’t cargo cult often, but when I do, I do it with Node.js.”
So runs a wry joke we recently read about Node.js, the somewhat suddenly popular server-side programming technology that’s been all the rage among developers in our …
Developers these days are fascinated by Node, as we recently reaffirmed with a blockbuster post on how LinkedIn used Node to make its new mobile apps.
Our written interview with LinkedIn’s mobile development chief did so well that we thought …
This morning, LinkedIn launched its gorgeously overhauled mobile app. We’ve already told you all about the new features, but for developers, the most exciting part is what’s going on under the hood.
The app is two to 10 times faster …
