Monthly Archives: July 2012

Working with JQuery, AJAX, CoffeeScript and Node.js

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Chad Lung

I often get asked how to get Node.js working with JQuery and AJAX. Of course you can always use something like Socket.IO for realtime, but sometimes you might be dealing with older browsers that don’t support WebSockets and AJAX might … Continue reading →

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Installing Node.js on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Rackspace’s new control panel using OpenStack

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Chad Lung

I recently signed up for Rackspace’s next generation Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack. The new control panel is clean, easy to use, and it gives live feedback as your servers are being built, creating an image, changing the root password, … Continue reading →

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Faster than Node.js? Getting started with Luvit on OS X

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Chad Lung

Luvit is asynchronous I/O for Lua. If you’re familiar with Node.js then you might see similarities in the code I’ll show in this article. There is still some debate in the community but generally you’ll find that currently Luvit uses … Continue reading →

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20 Node.js projects that you should know about to increase productivity

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Chad Lung

Node.js continues to grow through a very active community. Like all other technologies it has its own share of detractors and promoters. Today I want to point out 20 projects that work with Node.js and can help increase your productivity.

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Node.js is a toy and CoffeeScript is the Devil

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Chad Lung

Node.js is a toy that just happens to perform very well out of the box and is simple enough for most developers to grasp the general ideas after working with it for a while. I’m still surprised how little has … Continue reading →

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