Tom Hughes-Croucher
Principal, Jetpacks for Dinosaurs

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Tom Hughes-Croucher is the Principal at Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, a consultancy that helps to make their client’s web sites really fast. He provides technology leadership and expertise in high performance web sites and Node.js for the company.

Tom is the co-author of the O’Reilly book “Up and Running with Node.js”.

Tom has also worked at Joyent as the Chief Evangelist with the Node.js team. Before that he was the Lead Technology Evangelist for North America and a Senior Developer at Yahoo!.

Tom has contributed to a number of Web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). He is worked with some of the world’s leading brands including Walmart, NASA, Yahoo!, Tesco, Three Telecom and the UK’s Channel 4 Television.

Sessions

4:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

Node.js and How JavaScript is Changing Server Programming

JavaScript
Location: Portland 255

Tom Hughes-Croucher (Jetpacks for Dinosaurs)

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While JavaScript is ubiquitous on the web it isn't really well known outside of the browser. All of that is about to change. Node.js is a fast, non-blocking, event driven server that is opening the door for JavaScript on the server. For everyone who ever wanted to use JavaScript everywhere, or wondered just how fast a server can go, this talk if for you. Read more.

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Tom Hughes-Croucher Principal, Jetpacks for Dinosaurs