20 6 / 2012
TJ Holowaychuk: Express vs Sinatra Benchmarks
So I have been setting up benchmark scripts for Express today, and so far some of the results have been quite interesting! The numbers shown should be taken lightly, however they consistently show that Express is quite fast.
If you are interested in benchmarking your own web applications you…
16 6 / 2012
Leon Gersing: My Perception of CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is something that I’ve watched for a very long time and my first attempt at using it in a project was early in its development and while I wanted to commit patches, reading some of the conversation around the purpose and overall goals made me realize that I simply see JavaScript…
06 6 / 2012
Handig! Russel van Kraayenburg maakt visueel inzichtelijk wanneer het de beste tijd is om bepaalde groenten, fruit en kruiden te gebruiken. Elke milieubewuste liefhebber van lekker eten moet toch weten dat in het seizoen alles het best smaakt, bij mij komen de smakeloze aardbeien buiten de zomer niet op tafel.
(Source: getpocket.com, via eatdrinkbrand)
26 5 / 2012
Episode 0.8.0 - Lua, Luvit, want some more of it, with Tim Caswell
Wynn caught up with Tim Caswell to talk about Luvit, his new project that provides Lua bindings for libuv.
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Items mentioned in the show:
- Adam is recently hitched to the lovely Heather.
- Tim Caswell is a long time friend of the show, creator of the How to Node blog.
- Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
- Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce.
- LuaJIT’s FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code.
- Luvit can take advantage of most Node libraries as long as they use non-blocking IO.
- Rackspace is using Luvit in production already, but without HTTP.
- Tim likes the callback style of coding that V8 promotes.
- Wynn asks where Node.js is on the Gartner hype cycle.
- Luvmonkey is a port of libuv bindings for SpiderMonkey.
- Tim fails to see the use case for AMD.
- Tim worked with Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript while at Document Cloud.
- Candor is a language inspired by javascript, but with less features and, therefore, less complexity. So no semicolons, no exceptions and simplified anonymous function syntax (dart-like).
- Tim has played with Go but likes Rust better.
- Tim is now working at Cloud9 and their cloud-based IDE.
- Surely Tim isn’t “the only JavaScript developer within a hundred miles of” Red Lick, TX.
- Nodebits is another Node.js blog.
- Bert Belder and Ben Noordhuis are the “libuv guys” at Cloud9.
- Boot2Gecko is “an early-stage project to expose all device capabilities such that infrastructure like phone dialers can be built with Web APIs.”
(Source: thechangelog)
12 5 / 2012
Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for story in Outside magazine about bear attacks
Source: Edel Rodriguez
