Node Knockout (Interview)

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.

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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!

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