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Michael J. Ryan

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Feb 28, 2011, 10:17:48 AM2/28/11
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Anyone have any information/status on this?

Following @nodeaz on twitter.

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Luis Montes

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Feb 28, 2011, 10:49:22 AM2/28/11
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A whole group dedicated to just Node.js?  Would rather see javavascript-az active again and covering Node.js, ringojs, dojo, jquery, noSQL, etc.

Luis


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Ryan Gasparini

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Feb 28, 2011, 11:38:09 AM2/28/11
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Is Node.js really JavaScript, or is it a different syntax for Java (like Groovy?) It seems all the latest JS articles are oriented towards node but are writing the functional language like OOP.

Rob Robbins

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Feb 28, 2011, 2:56:22 PM2/28/11
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I am with Luis on that. Just Node seems too narrow a scope to keep a group going IMO. I do actively develop with it though, so of course am interested in it being part of the larger js group

Michael J. Ryan

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Feb 28, 2011, 8:07:23 PM2/28/11
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Fair enough... I haven't had time to organize any meetups for the group since
mid last year... wouldn't mind seeing some node meetups, and using this
mailing list for that (node specific meets) is more than okay with me.


Rob Robbins wrote:
> I am with Luis on that. Just Node seems too narrow a scope to keep a
> group going IMO. I do actively develop with it though, so of course am
> interested in it being part of the larger js group
>
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Luis Montes wrote:
>
>> A whole group dedicated to just Node.js? Would rather see
>> javavascript-az active again and covering Node.js, ringojs, dojo,
>> jquery, noSQL, etc.
>>
>> Luis
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>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Michael J. Ryan
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>> Anyone have any information/status on this?
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>> Following @nodeaz on twitter.
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Michael J. Ryan

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Feb 28, 2011, 8:11:45 PM2/28/11
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It's not really OOP, it's more about packaging content into usable modules...

Node is the V8 engine with an implementation of the CommonJS API for purposes
of package use/reuse... It's a bit different than what you tend to get used
to in client-side JS.

I've seen other systems that simply eval() included scripts when called via
require(path-to-js), as opposed to how node only returns what's exported.

The other thing that may seem more or less alien, is the use of callbacks with
almost everything, not generally using direct events... Which is emphatically
not OO, it's very functional in nature.

IMHO it's like C with JS syntax/expression. It seems to work very well for
heavily IO driven code... I think it's the asynchronous nature that throws
people off in terms of thinking of server-side code.. and the CommonJS syntax
gets people used to client-side JS.

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Hafthor

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Mar 1, 2011, 11:42:21 AM3/1/11
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The JavaScript group did tend to cover client-side stuff and core
language stuff, which is awesome, but there's a lot of activity in the
node ecosystem and I think it does warrant its own group, a group
where we can expect more than "intro to node.js" both from the
presentations and the audience. We hope you'll try it.

Luis Montes

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Mar 2, 2011, 11:09:16 AM3/2/11
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Sounds good, looking forward to it then.  Any chance you might cover other JS server side implementations as well? 

Luis

Hafthor

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Mar 2, 2011, 11:23:37 AM3/2/11
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I think we want to cover anything that would be of interest to people
interested in node.
-HS

Dylan Schiemann

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Mar 3, 2011, 3:48:53 AM3/3/11
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I cannot make it March, but will try for April. I'd be happy to talk
about Persevere at some point if that's interesting... http://www.persvr.org/
(Persevere is a collection of middleweare modules on top of Node or
Narwhal+Jack). I can also speak about the recent efforts to get Dojo
running on Node.

-Dylan

Hafthor

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Mar 4, 2011, 11:53:50 AM3/4/11
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That'd be awesome. We'd love to have you present in April on those
topics.
Let us know on the NodeAZ group (http://groups.google.com/group/
nodeaz) when you can confirm your availability or if you can't make
it.

Thanks,
-HS

On Mar 3, 1:48 am, Dylan Schiemann <dyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot make it March, but will try for April. I'd be happy to talk
> about Persevere at some point if that's interesting...http://www.persvr.org/
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