Marc Wandschneider - Learning Node.js A Hands-on Guide to Building Web Applications in javascript

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A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications in JavaScript

Marc Wandschneider

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Much love to Tina, for simply being there.

Id like to thank all the Marks at PHPTR (its a common name, it seems) who have helped me make this book and other projects a reality. The copy editors have been brilliant and helpful.

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Marc Wandschneider co-founded Adylitica, a leading specialist in massively scalable web and mobile app design and development. He travels the globe, consulting as a lead manager for software projects and teams. A graduate of McGill Universitys School of Computer Science, he spent five years at Microsoft, developing and managing developers on the Visual Basic, Visual J++, and .NET Windows Forms teams. As Contract Software Developer/Architect at SourceLabs, he built the SWiK open source Wiki platform. He authored PHP and MySQL LiveLessons and Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL.

Welcome to Learning Node.js. Node.js is an exciting new platform for writing network and web applications that has created a lot of buzz over the past couple of years and rapidly gathered a sizeable following in the developer community. In this book, I teach you more about it, why it is special, and get you up and writing Node.js programs in short order. Youll soon find that people are rather flexible with the name of Node.js and will refer to it frequently as just Node or even node. I certainly do a lot of that in this book as well.