[nodejs] Hotnode, where are you?

2013-12-17 Thread Orthoducks
I'm trying to set up an environment where I can start messing around with Node.js. My first goal is to run one of the examples from Node Cookbook, by David Clements, and make some changes to it. One of the steps in the example is to run 'hotnode script.js'. I understand what this is supposed to

Re: [nodejs] Re: Learning NodeJS: what's important?

2013-12-17 Thread Orthoducks
I'm not sure I've gotten a direct answer to my title question, "What's important?" Perhaps I should have phrased it as "What's the most useful way to approach learning Node.js, given my background and interests?" All of you have given me some stuff to chew on, though. I've decided to try learni

Re: [nodejs] Re: Learning NodeJS: what's important?

2013-12-17 Thread Orthoducks
I'm not sure I've gotten a direct answer to my title question, "What's important?" Perhaps I should have phrased it as "What's the most useful way to approach learning Node.js, given my background and interests?" All of you have given me some stuff to chew on, though. I've decided to try learni

[nodejs] Learning NodeJS: what's important?

2013-12-16 Thread Orthoducks
I'm trying to learn NodeJS. My background (most recently) is writing web applications in PHP, with some JavaScript mixed in. My objectives are (1) to learn to write simple web applications in NodeJS, (2) to be able to read NodeJS code to help me document services that my company develops, and (3