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- Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB) (4/29)
- Cracking the cross-domain/Allow-Origin nut (4/13)
- New Varnish "Book" (4/04)
- Reducing coordinate density in KML files (with a node.js script) (1/30)
- Git trick: Cleanup end-of-line changes (1/30)
- Why Node.js? Why clients should ask for it, and developers should build with it (1/17)
- Apps.newleafdigital.com: Building a suite of apps in node.js (1/17)
- How to install xhprof on OSX (Snow Leopard or Lion) and XAMPP (1/14)
- Unconventional unit testing in Drupal 6 with PhpUnit, upal, and Jenkins (12/14)
- Making sense of Varnish caching rules (12/12)
- Parse Drupal watchdog logs in syslog (using node.js script) (11/29)
- Migrating a static 960.gs grid to a responsive, semantic grid with LessCSS (11/25)
- Generate pager (previous/next) links for an old Blogspot blog using Node.js (11/25)
- Tilt, 3D Dom Inspector for Firefox (10/30)
- Great list of new dev tools from Smashing Magazine (10/30)
Hey Ben,
Glad to see you're checking out Node.js. How is the experimenting going? Jeff posted a comment a couple days ago about why we chose Node.js for our most recent site, instead of Drupal, that I thought you might find interesting - http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/20/data-browser-shows-views-ins....
Cheers,
Bonnie
Hi Bonnie,
That's a good post, thanks. I spent a few hours with it the other night and got a little server/app serving files and running ajax queries. I have a particular idea for an app I want to build -- something that hooks into Drupal's Location module and intercepts its geocoding requests, saving the geocode response data (including level of accuracy) into MongoDB via node.js. Then I'd be able to run queries on the mongo data and spot bad geocodes (which are otherwise ignored or dropped) and cross-reference them to the site's mysql database.
I look forward to future posts on DevSeed's blog about more Mongo/Node experiences! I think it's critical that Drupalers branch out so we know how other frameworks work and have a point of reference for comparing and improving Drupal.
Ben
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