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Yeah - this has been posted way too many times. There was some work on significantly modifying the CoffeeScript compiler to add static metaprogramming (macros+more) but I don't thi…

(I don't know if that's what they call it in C# 5.) Tasks - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.tas... .

I've been paying for Spotify in the UK and been using the desktop client without any tricks in the US since moving here. The big problem is that the Spotify iPhone app isn't availa…

Grooveshark is great and since moving the US I've used it a lot. Where I think Spotify wins out over Grooveshark is the quality of their music library. I frequently find that album…

It's actually working on the CoffeeScript AST. Admittedly the example I used doesn't demonstrate this particularly well.

Prototype of packaging JavaScript, client-side templates and CoffeeScript into CommonJS Modules for the browser using ASP.NET.

Yeah - A "hoo-haw" is good. The quicker issues are brought to attention and resolved the better.

By "in flux" I was intending to vaguely refer to the problems with the protocol which has led Firefox and Opera to ship with WebSockets disabled. I'm guessing we're probably going …

The WebSocket protocol is still very much in flux. This drop is only to give an idea of the server side API would look like (I think anyways). I imagine as the protocol calms down …

No where near as interesting. Windows Communication Foundation - a networking stack for .NET. Sorry.

Yep - that's probably the best bit.