Node.js, is this the next big thing?
Although I did briefly notice node.js a few months back, it didn’t really catch my interest until I saw this video; Node.js: JavaScript on the Server. I’ve been developing JavaScript on the client (browser) side more or less for the last 5 years. And I didn’t enjoy it too much right away, but with libraries like jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Ext JS, GWT, etc + continued performance improvements in the JS engines this has changed. It’s now at the point that I feel a lot more productive creating “business apps” with HTML, JavaScript and CSS within a browser then I ever felt using things like Swing or the equivalent in the .NET world. ...