Open the app
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Node Knockout (Interview)

Aug 31, 2010 · 24 min · 11.9 MB
0:00-24:02

Streams straight from the publisher. PodNod never proxies or re-hosts episode audio.

Open in PodNod

Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Show Notes:

  • Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin
  • Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits
  • Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition
  • Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash
  • Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy
  • Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy
  • Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc.
  • List of great Node Knockout Judges
  • Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps.
  • Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js
  • Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more.
  • npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.
  • Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger
  • Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries
  • Go vote for your favorite entries!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!