Node.js just got an enterprise-grade security shot in the arm (exclusive)

To help ease the FUD and make Node more secure and hacker-proof, The Node Firm has just acquired the mind behind The Node Security Project, one Mr. Adam Baldwin.

Segment.io launches iOS and Android SDKs to enable every app analytics solution — all at once

"Mobile analytics is a brand-new field, and no clear winner has emerged yet," Segment.io cofounder Peter Reinhardt says. "So we made it incredibly easy to try them all."

This 22-day-old open-source Minecraft-cloning game builder runs in Javascript in your browser

Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.

Exclusive: PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile

How do you top building the language that's behind a third of the web?

AppFog buys Nodester to bolster Node.js support

Platform-as-a-Service startup AppFog has acquired leading Node.js PaaS Nodester in a move that gives AppFog even greater versatility for the 60,000 developers using its service.

Node.js comes to the enterprise via Engine Yard Cloud

Node has for some time been web startups' favorite flavor of the month, and now it's becoming more accessible to enterprise-level applications, as well, thanks to the fine folks at Engine Yard.

Check out this phone-controlled robot from a Twilio/Node.js hacker

An aspiring hardware hacker at Twilio has used his company’s own telephony APIs as well as Node.js and Arduino to build the charming robot you see in the clip above.

We just about overloaded on developer buzzwords there, so let’s …

Yahoo launches a killer mobile browser, Axis. Yes, we said Yahoo

Everyone knows it, but few people acknowledge it: Mobile web browsers absolutely suck. Technologists are launching commercial space flights, mapping the human genome, and building flexible computer displays, yet we still haven’t figured out the right way to use a …

You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app (exclusive)

Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native.

Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days. They’ll start with 40 percent …

Yahoo dives deeper down the Node.js rabbit hole with open-source Mojito

Today, Yahoo is open-sourcing Mojito, a bit of software that uses JavaScript and Node.js to run a single codebase on both the client and server side.

Mojito is one of a few Node-centric projects Yahoo’s been brewing. Collectively called Cocktails, …

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day

Ryan Dahl, the hacker who brought the world Node.js, is turning over the reins to Joyent’s Isaac Schlueter.

Dahl, who started working on the Node project in 2009, stated in a Google Groups post Monday, “After three years of working …

How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam

Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js.

Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you …

Node at scale: What Google, Mozilla, & Yahoo are doing with Node.js

When the scale of your application is “everyone on the Internet,” you have to think a bit differently about adopting new technologies.

At the Node Summit today, a bevy of “big boy” company executives gathered to chat about Node.js, the …

Why Walmart is using Node.js

Node.js has been the delight of San Francisco hackers for the past couple years now, but startups and indie developers aren’t the only ones using JavaScript on the server side.

At Node Summit today, Walmart executives talk about why the …

Node.js core contributor explains why it’s ready for the big time (video)

Hanging out with Paul Querna, a longtime Node.js core contributor and Rackspace’s systems architect, is more fun than a basket of kittens.

In this video interview, he and I chat about how far Node has come in a relatively short …

Watch out, Ruby on Rails: Node.js is the most popular repo on Github

Node.js became the most popular code repository on Github over the holiday weekend.

With 11,460 watchers as of this writing, the Node repo now has more attention than Rails, which has 11,274 watchers.

For all you who’ve been trumpeting that …