node.js is clearly the hottest thing since sliced bread, and recently I've been working on a larger project that runs as a node server. The problem I encountered was that, unlike a PHP based web app, whenever I made any changes to the code, I would have to manually stop and start node. This bugged me. [...]

Me this weekend: I can't count the number of times I've cursed CSS for not having a :parent pseudo selector: a img:parent { background: none; } The what followed was some going back and forth with people who have thought this properly through.

A polyfill, or polyfiller, is a piece of code (or plugin) that provides the technology that you, the developer, expect the browser to provide natively. Flattening the API landscape if you will.

I'm a big fan of the WebSockets API for all the real-time goodness it offers, but the iOS platform doesn't (currently) bake the WebSockets API in to mobile Safari. That sucks, particularly because I can enjoy making iOS native apps using awesome frameworks like PhoneGap. However, because I'm using PhoneGap, I can create a PhoneGap [...]