Chris Sainty

Last week an interesting thread was started on the NodeJS mailing list.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/iy7Re33dwyU/yxwLlx1aUNMJ

Roger Wang from the Intel Open Source Technology Center posted about a new project from their team called node-webkit.

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

node-webkit brings WebKit to NodeJS. With it, client side applications can be written with a HTML/CSS UI on the NodeJS platform. We believe the async I/O framework and Javascript language is a perfect combination for client (mobile) side applications.

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Time for a quick tutorial on how to get a site up and running on AppHarbor using Nancy and MongoDb.

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Node seems to be everywhere at the moment. Long on my list of things to take a look at, I finally took the time to sit down with it yesterday and get it up and running and get a feel for what it does.

In the process I also took my first look at Heroku, which is the cloud hosting platform for Ruby, Node, Java etc.  that AppHarbor borrows heavily from in the .NET world.

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I ran into an interesting problem today that warrants a blog post to hopefully help someone searching when they hit it themselves.

Last night, I turned on my phone only to be greeted with a helpful message informing me that my application gReadie had been revoked by Microsoft and that I should uninstall it.

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Just a quick FYI to let people know I am now on Twitter with my own account @csainty.

Up until now I have been using the @quidsmobile account for a mix of personal comments and supporting gReadie. It will go full-time WP7 app support now.

All my blog posts will be announced on my new personal account, along with other little comments on programming and tech.