This Week's Node News - Issue 73

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node weekly February 12, 2015  #73

JOYENT Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation Joyent, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Fidelity, SAP and The Linux Foundation have come together to establish a formal open governance model for Node. OFFICIAL NODE BLOG Node v0.12.0 (Stable) Released It’s been a long time coming but there are lots of updates, including to Cluster, Streams, and HTTP. Also initial support for ECMAScript i18n API 1.0. IO.JS io.js 1.2.0 Released STORMPATH   SPONSORED New! Easy, Secure Token-Based Authentication for Single Page Applications The new Stormpath Angularjs SDK makes it easy to implement token or user authentication in single page apps - securely and easily! Backend support for Node, Express & Java. IO.JS io.js and A Node.js Foundation: The Current State of Reconciliation Short and sweet but ‘talks with Joyent are ongoing’ and Joyent has invited the io.js team to discuss a reconciliation. NODEJITSU Nodejitsu Joins GoDaddy, Will Shutdown ‘Nodejitsu products will continue to run for the next seven months, then shutdown.’ Its private npm registry product will be open sourced. Jobs Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO & JPMorgan Work on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite HTML5 developer. See if you have what it takes. TOPTAL Software Engineers at Skyscanner (remote – with 20% of time in Edinburgh, Scotland) Comfortable with client MVC frameworks and have a strong grasp of modern client toolsets? Come and help us craft new products and services for Skyscanner’s 200 million visitors a year. SKYSCANNER In brief NodeSource Raises $3 Million To Build New Programming Tools NEWS  TECHCRUNCH Want to Learn React.js from one of the Best React Devs in the World? NEWSSPONSORED React Week is a week-long workshop with Ryan Florence. Learn React, Flux + more. In Person or Online  REACT WEEK How to Use Azure Websites with io.js TUTORIAL  MICROSOFT AZURE Better SQL Strings in io.js/Node.js TUTORIAL Leaning on template strings and generators to avoid ugly multi-line string concoctions.   TARAS MITRAN Using Homebrew to Manage Node.js and Io.js Installs on OS X TUTORIAL  PHIL HELM Resizing Images in Node.js Applications TUTORIAL  QAWELESIZWE MLILO WebSockets over Node.js: From Plain to Secure TUTORIAL  GIACOMO VACCA Node.js Application Deployment & Hosting Simplified TOOLS SPONSORED Modulus provides a portable, scalable and customizable Node.js hosting platform. Try it for free now.  MODULUS 'Is There A Good Reason The io.js Installer Creates A Node Symlink?'    BROCK WHITTEN Let's Chat: Self-hosted Chat for Small Teams CODE An open source Node project.   SD ELEMENTS INC. Sentencer.js: A Node Module for Madlibs-style Sentence Templating CODE Worth checking out for the creepy logo alone.   KYLE STETZ Cerebellum.js: Uncomplicated Isomorphic JavaScript Apps CODE  LARI HOPPULA nw-nija: A Minimal node-webkit (NW.js) Starter Project CODE  YANIV KESSLER X-Ray: A New Web Scraper for Node CODE  jsop: One-Way Data-Binding for JSON Files CODE Requires io.js or Node 0.12 as it uses Object.observe.   TYPICODE watermark-best-corner: A Node.js Script to Calculate The Best Corner to Watermark A Image CODE  RODRIGO ALVIANI