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The problem with html5 apps right now is theres no good platform for developing them. Jquery mobile has issues. Sencha touch has issues. Ive looked at touch before but am concerned…

Parsing json is a pain in android. You have to do so may things to do what should be a simple straightforward thing. One article mentioned that library but i never looked at it.

I was trying to learn android recently and had to take a break due to increasing headaches. Theres so many issues. Some of which they mentioned in this article. One of which is tha…

Likewise agree. Too much freaking noise. Annoying interface and horrible ads. Im in the process of moving over to twitter.

Actually i just learned node a few months ago. If you want to ping me personally i can go through it with you step by step since theres a couple of things you have to figure out an…

To say this is a port of Node is to misunderstand 99% of what node is. In fact i dont really understand why you even relate this to node at all and why you use the node logo. Call …

Its unfortunate that right now none of the 3 major document stores seem to be doing all that well or are easy to use straight out of the box. I use and like mongodb but only for pr…

For anybody wanting to learn about node the NodeUP podcast is excellent.

Personally id say Node and Rails simply shouldnt be compared in any way. They are just too different technologies. So node shouldnt even be concerned about trying to be rails at al…

Mongodb is a json document store. I use it myself. It works very well with "node" because node of course uses javascript as its language.

Of course Rails took YEARS getting to the point of scalability. People are acting like it was scalable on the very first alpha release.

Plus if they already knew rails. I use node mostly now and wonder why people would use anything else. However if i had alot of expertise in rails i would probably use it for most e…

Im sorry but you make it sound like everybody that does rails is a perfect programmer. Rails itself has changed over the years and if you look at an app from years ago im quite sur…

Yes of course via express.js and railway and several other frameworks. Again node itself is just a set of libraries on top of of v8. So its not a proper comparison. Personally i us…

The problem is that Rails has been around since what 2005. Node has been around for a much shorter period and has only stabilized over the past year. So they just arent comparible …

I use node for everything now myself for a number of reasons. The "problem" with node is that its still very young. And its a different programming model then people are used to. S…

Completely agree. I tried to learn rails and gave up partly for this reason. I have been using node for a while now and LOVE it! I really dont understand why people bash node.

Mongodb and Cassandra are two completely different technologies with completely different use cases. Mongodb is more of a general database although its apparently used more and mor…