Learning Node will be my last book for O’Reilly, at least for the foreseeable future. Learning Node was a particularly exhausting book. Not only is there much to cover in one book, Node is a very dynamic technology. I like to think my coverage is both comprehensive and solid, but I guess we’ll see how the book […]
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Node: References and Resources
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During my explorations of Node.js, I came across many excellent resources, references, tutorials, and various other online publications related to the technology. I had planned on incorporating this material into an appendix for Learning Node but decided it would make a better online resource than a book chapter. Every person […]
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Learning Node: Raw
Evidently, O’Reilly is going to publish my Learning Node book as a Rough Cuts/Early Release. What people should know is that the material has not gone through a final edit, a copy edit, or a tech review. So yes, there will be typos, gotchas, and oopsies. Probably lots and lots of oopsies. But the advantage […]
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Learning Node: Well, one Rails aside
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After denouncing the use of Ruby and Rails terms to describe Node and Node modules, I must now confess that I did use a Rails resource in the section on MVC in Chapter 6. The Rails Guide has an absolutely beautifully written overview on MVC and routing, Rails Routing from the […]
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Learning Node: Concepts and TOC
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Learning Node book is far enough along so that I can publish the Table of Contents for the book and it shouldn’t differ significantly from the TOC for the book when it’s finished. The chapters with an expanded TOC are those already finished—the rest are still in work. Before I print […]