Minute With Node.js

We have "the Ryan Dahl" discussing the latest and greatest stable release from the Node.js core team, Node.js 0.4.0. Ryan goes through a listing of the best and brightest new and revisited parts of Node.js. It provides a excellent peek into not just what changed, but more importantly why it changed. Granted it is a bit longer (~10 minutes) but well worth it as he does a deep dive over 3 major areas of churn and improvement.

• Node.js 0.4.0 (stable) Changelog
• Node.js 0.4.0 API docs
• OpenSSL
• The New TLS (SSL) API
• Node.js Windows Port
• Bert Belder
• Bert Belder (twitter)
• HTTP Client Interface Updated
• "HTTP the worst protocol known to humans"
• The new HTTP request format
• The new HTTP GET format
• Buffers (now even faster)
• NPM (now with sudo action)
• socket.io
• Isaac Z. Schlueter
• "node_modules" directory helps avoid global installation
• NPM modules can be installed like .deb packages
• V8 upgraded to the latest!!!
• 1.0 coming soon!
• Upgrading from 0.2.x branch should be easy
• If have bugs, email: ry at tinyclouds dot org