Batteries not included. I'm the authority.
I'm choosing my authorities. My wish: An easy way to follow my authorities, preferably via npm (star command..). On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Baz <b...@thinkloop.com> wrote: > I'm with the evolution camp, but just for completeness sake, it is worth > considering the hybrid Linux model. Any rogue can develop apps, but distros > (i.e. Ubuntu), for better or for worse, tie them all up in a pretty bow (a > lot more involved than npm). > > > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rog...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Couldn't disagree with you more. >> >> Open environments thrive on small discreet and federated components and >> not on central authority. It's closed systems that require more frameworks >> and widgets and big SDKs in order to survive and compete against other >> closed systems. >> >> On Jun 22, 2012, at June 22, 20129:11 PM, Radhames Brito wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On 22 jun, 20:04, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Radhames Brito >> >> <rbri...@techpark.com.do> wrote: >> >>> I have a medium size application in Rails that is consuming lot of >> >>> resources because it has to communicate with a SOAP web service, every >> >>> time the application accesses the service is the processing of the >> >>> request stops so i have to have start many instances to make the app >> >>> respond quickly to the other clients, i also have to start faye and >> >>> several background workers. >> >> >> >>> So is it a better idea to port this application to node.js (expressjs) >> >>> and make async calls to the SOAP web service and update the clients >> >>> via socket.io? >> >> >> >> That's exactly the use case node.js was designed for: shoveling loads >> >> of data from one network endpoint to another. >> >> >> >>> What kind of issues should i be aware of? >> >> >> >> That event-driven I/O is something of a paradigm shift. It takes some >> >> getting used to but if you've used e.g. EventMachine before, you'll be >> >> fine. >> > >> > The biggest problem for me is that there seems to be no standard for >> > anything and the community is segregated. Many projects are redundant >> > and when one has a feature you need is missing something else that >> > another project has but is missing some other feature. >> > >> > Most project lack the proper documentation. I dont see node.js growing >> > much as long as there is no central leadership of some sort that can >> > impose some standars like, "everything in npm must be documented this >> > way or this other", or "if you are doing the same thing as someone >> > else dont duplicate efforts join that project and help build one >> > robust solution". There are like 5 ORM (most lack support for >> > relational databases) , 3 SOAP clients (none fully featured), 10 RoR >> > clones (all missing one thing that the other has), 8 mailers and so >> > on. So many smart people doing great things but most are not what the >> > could because everyone seems to want to be the next DHH or something. >> > I mean if towerjs, railwayjs and geddy are all trying to copy RoR why >> > not just get together and do one excellent solution? >> > >> > Sorry for the rant. >> > >> > -- >> > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> > Posting guidelines: >> > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "nodejs" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Oliver Leics @ G+ https://plus.google.com/112912441146721682527 -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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