Node.js, Evented I/O, and a Cup of Tea

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:30:42 +0000

All Arthur Dent really wanted was a cup of tea.

I was reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, and I found a humorous example of event driven programming. So I thought I would share.

The Story

Arthur Dent was one of the last surviving humans after Earth had been destroyed to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. He was living on a spaceship known as the “Heart of Gold,” which onboard had an amazing piece of equipment called the “Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer” which “claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared to use it.”

Node.JS, LAMP, and The Future

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:35:37 +0000

I just read an article about “Node.JS and the JavaScript Age.” It was from a very “enthusiastic” point of view. My guess is they had tinkered around with Node.JS and using with client-side JavaScript rebuilding their Dashboard. You can do some pretty cool stuff with it, and it has a lot of potential. It is very easy to install and get going, much like Redis. Here ia an excerpt from the article:

Node.js on Justin Carmony

Node.js, Evented I/O, and a Cup of Tea

The Story

Node.JS, LAMP, and The Future