It seems like every programing technology goes through phases, and one of those phases involves it growing into a bloated mess. Even the mighty Ruby on Rails is starting to feel a bit over-engineered.

But Node.js is still young enough that it is refreshing to work on. A nice clean slate. Pair it with Mongo for an interesting combination.

Anyways, here are some of my notes/links for Node.js.

• javascript prototypical interface - http://howtonode.org/prototypical-inheritance
• online json viewer. Not directly related to node, but it has been helpful - http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/
• express.js. A web framework for Node - http://expressjs.com/
• Node & MongoDb. The documentation inside the mongodb module helped me more, but these got me started http://blog.mongodb.org/post/6587009156/cloudfoundry-mongodb-and-nodejs
• Debug Node in your browser. https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector

In this project I am playing around with a few other technologies besides Node. Look for some future posts on some of these:

• MongoDb http://www.mongodb.org/
• Backbone.js http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
• Puppet http://puppetlabs.com/
• CentOS - http://www.centos.org/