Node.js comes to the enterprise via Engine Yard Cloud

August 21, 2012 7:05 AM Jolie O'Dell
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Node has for some time been web startups' favorite flavor of the month, and now it's becoming more accessible to enterprise-level applications, as well, thanks to the fine folks at Engine Yard.

Check out this phone-controlled robot from a Twilio/Node.js hacker

July 3, 2012 11:50 AM Jolie O'Dell
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An aspiring hardware hacker at Twilio has used his company’s own telephony APIs as well as Node.js and Arduino to build the charming robot you see in the clip above.

We just about overloaded on developer buzzwords there, so let’s …

Yahoo launches a killer mobile browser, Axis. Yes, we said Yahoo

May 23, 2012 6:00 PM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Yahoo dives deeper down the Node.js rabbit hole with open-source Mojito

April 2, 2012 8:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
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Editor's Pick

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, …

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day

January 30, 2012 1:03 PM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam

January 28, 2012 11:47 AM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Node at scale: What Google, Mozilla, & Yahoo are doing with Node.js

January 24, 2012 2:48 PM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Why Walmart is using Node.js

January 24, 2012 12:04 PM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Node.js core contributor explains why it’s ready for the big time (video)

December 9, 2011 1:42 PM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Watch out, Ruby on Rails: Node.js is the most popular repo on Github

November 28, 2011 10:12 AM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Node nerds unite at the first-ever Node Summit

August 25, 2011 3:48 PM Jolie O'Dell
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“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 …

Joyent Node.js expert talks about Node in the enterprise and more

August 19, 2011 5:16 PM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …

Exclusive: How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app

August 16, 2011 6:01 AM Jolie O'Dell
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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 …