Javascript Brilliance

Two things involving Javascript that I didn’t know about this time last week:

Node

Node is a standalone Javascript engine for running on servers. Lets you deal with things on a socket level, interact with the file system and so on. This means you can write all your code for both a client and a server in the same language; something you can do with haXe as well, but without the compiling down to Neko bytecode step, and in a somewhat more commonly used language.

Gordon

Gordon is a (currently very simple) SWF player written in pure Javascript, which gets the file running using SVG and HTML5. The only way to get Flash to run on an iPhone, at the moment - an impressive feat! Being clean Javascript, the sourcecode is all there for the taking, but that’s okay - it’s licensed under an MIT open source license!