Node.js showed up at the right time. PHP, currently the most popular server-side language, has been mired in community squabbling amidst a large effort to refactor its character encoding support, while also losing developer mindshare to the many excellent Ruby web frameworks that have appeared in the last few years. But Ruby web frameworks, and the language itself, have become...

Node.js performance tips from LinkedIn

CoffeeScript is to producing JavaScript what Markdown is for producing HTML. Elegance matters.

Qt 5 is bringing JS at the same level of support as C++—Quim Gil, Nokia

Create is a JavaScript library that can make any website editable through simple RDFa annotations and Backbone.js. MIT licensed, in GitHub.

In PHP we’ve had a lousy culture of code-sharing. Because depending on code from others as been tricky, every major PHP application or framework has practically had to reimplement the whole world. Only some tools, like PHPUnit, have managed to break over this barrier and become de-facto standards across project boundaries. But for the rest: just write it yourself.

If you’ve been following my blog, you might have noticed that lately I’ve started doing quite a lot of Node.js development alongside PHP. Based on conversations I’ve had in various conferences, I’m by far not alone in this situation - using Node.js for real-time functionality, and PHP (or Django, or Rails) for the more traditional CRUD stuff.

Mozilla’s mission is to “build user sovereignty into the fabric of the Internet.—Mitchell Baker, in ExtremeTech article

Using the Node.js debugger

ShareJS is a CoffeeScript library for building Google Wave -style live collaboration features for web applications. MIT license, in GitHub.