Node.js is a relatively new project which implements a server side non blocking framework in JavaScript, which runs on Google's V8 JavaScript engine. It only works on Linux/Mac OSX type machines at the moment

To install

Here's how to install from source:

$ git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git
$ ./configure
$ make …

I've just booked four tickets for a show at a local theatre, and I did it by phone. It cost me £24, plus £4 booking fee, plus £1 postage. Total price £29. I got to choose where we sat.

If I'd have bought the same four tickets online, it would …

I had a need to test a web service from C#, as that would be what many of our customers would be doing. I had no experience of C# or Visual Studio. This post recounts the trials and tribulations of getting this to work.

I'm using Visual C# Studio 2008 …