Node Web Development. A practical introduction to Node, the exciting new server-side JavaScript web development stack.

Herron, David

ISBN 10: 184951514X / ISBN 13: 9781849515146

Published by Birmingham. Packt Publ., 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Node Web Development. A practical introduction to Node, the exciting new server-side JavaScript web development stack.
• Publisher: Birmingham. Packt Publ.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184951514X
• ISBN 13: 9781849515146
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 900 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book is a practical introduction to learning about Node. Each chapter introduces you to a different area of Node, using screenshots and examples to get you up and running as quickly as possible. If you are a developer who wants to use JavaScript on the server side in order to build quicker, higher performing web applications, then this book is for you. It is recommended that you should have at least a rudimentary understanding of JavaScript and web application development.

About the Author

David Herron

David Herron has worked as a software engineer and software quality engineer in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. His current role at Yahoo is an Architect of the Quality Engineering team for their new Node.js based web app platform.

While a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, David worked as Architect of the Java SE Quality Engineering team where he focused on test automation tools, including the AWT Robot class that's now widely used in GUI test automation software. He was involved with launching the OpenJDK project, the JDK-Distros project, and ran the worldwide Mustang Regressions Contest asking the Java developer community to find bugs in the Java 1.6 release.

Before Sun he worked for VXtreme on the video streaming stack which eventually became Windows Media Player when Microsoft bought that company. At The Wollongong Group he worked on both e-mail client and server software and was part of several IETF working groups improving e-mail-related protocols

David is interested in electric vehicles, world energy supplies, climate change and environmental issues, and is a co-founder of Transition Silicon Valley.