javascript

Yesterday, while being super-productive in my main project, I stumbled upon (pun intented) thingler and realie, both of which made me say "holy mackerel, this node.js hype looks extra rad!" So a fellow dev and I decided to start a little project to learn this awesome stuff. Maybe sometime in a future in a possible universe I'll post more about that.

Node.js has two major niceties: it brings javascript to the server side thus allowing developers to stop being bilingual -and thus never quite good in one language or the other- and focus on being extra proficient in one language for both server and client sides. And two, is totally asynchronous! non-blocking and truly multiple threaded.

CouchDB, is a schema-less, no-sql, waddayacallit database server: instead of being relational and having tables and structures and whatnot, it stores JSON strings representing objects. Thus, your javascript prowess can even be applied to the database! RAD.

Last week, I added markdown support to a little blog engine I wrote for a django tutorial. And well, I accomplished it in minutes! I like markdown because is really easy to write and generates amazing html. It is presented here and the syntax is explained neatly in Stack Overflow, and they use it, too.

My approach was really simple: I wanted to write the posts in markdown with a preview (like in the question edition in Stack Overflow), store the posts in markdown and display them in html.