Before digging into node.js servers with CoffeeScript, I branched off by mimicking a simple client example by Arbo von Monkiewitsch.
It attaches a callback function to a click event and updates the page. Note that I haven’t passed in an object by reference (return changes), otherwise I could have called a swap function, from within the show message function.
This morning I’ll take a peak at two competing node.js hosting providers. Both Duostack and Nodester were straightforward to install and configure, if only other configurations were so easy. My first impression was that Duostack gets the slight edge due to supporting coffee-script out of the box, but Nodester get’s the service award and mentioned that coffee-script support is coming soon.
I like programming languages with rich object models. I love dynamic languages. Sure, minimizing execution time and resource optimization may demand speed, and c variants and java (mirah!) are screamers. Yet after having coded heavily in one of these languages for years, it’s a breath of fresh air letting go of the training wheels of type safety and discarding the mental overhead of complex inheritance trees. Verbosity be damned! (more…)
