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A few days ago I attended the second event of the newly born Belgian Node.js User Group. The event was about deploying and testing node.js applications and has been hosted in Microsoft Belgium offices near Brussels, thanks to Tom Crombez (aka @artymoony) and Windows Azure. There were 3 presentations: Mine, about deploying a MongoDB powered Node.js app on Windows Azure: a walkthrough of the steps needed to deploy the app. Then another talk on how to build your own “cloud-like” environment on Linux, using systemd. Talk by Ruben Vermeersch. ...

Not only .NET, but Node.js too. There are just 4 days left for submitting your proposal for the Web.NET Conference, but in this post I wanted to share a bit of love for the Node.js conference, happening in Brescia (if you are not from Italy it’s more or less near Milano), in November. They have opened the Call For Papers that will stay open till the 10 of September. If you are doing Node.js, and you want to share some of your knowledge, this is the conference for you: to submit a...

It is now a consolidate tradition for me to publish, during summer time, a list of the books I liked reading or that I bought and are sitting on my shelves (or, lately, more and more on my iPad) waiting to be read. In the last years these lists contained .NET and development methodologies books and web development books (jQuery and JavaScript). The topics of the book in this year’s list are a bit different. There will still be a bit of web development on .NET, but due to the nature of the projects I did in my spare...