Following my previous article about PHP and beanstalkd I was keen to use beanstalk in combination with node.js, but wasn't entirely satisfied with the available implementation. So as a little brain exercise I wrote nodestalker from scratch.

Whatever prompted Google to use an "unbalanced" noscript tag in their Web Optimiser, it ain't pretty!

Down with a cold, the only bit I managed was a bit more experimenting with node.js this weekend. Here's a little example of node.js acting as a very basic load balancer with fault tolerance.

Here's a little long polling example that I have thrown together while playing around with node.js. I must say it's a pretty slick tool. Anyone familiar with JavaScript suddenly can create powerful server side applications.

Matthias has made look into Linkedin and OAuth for a bit. This example was a very interesting read, but I think it's overcomplicating things slightly. That's why I want to show a very simple example inspired by what we've done for the brand new CwS Author pages.