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Sunday, 31st January 2010

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? John Gruber makes the case for the fading significance of Flash, brought about by Apple’s point-blank refusal to support it on the iPhone or iPad. “Flash is no longer ubiquitous. There’s a big difference between “everywhere” and “almost everywhere”.”

# 12:05 pm / adobe, apple, flash, ipad, iphone, john-gruber

32.38 percent of visitors to DF last week did not have Flash.

John Gruber

# 12:05 pm / adobe, apple, flash, john-gruber

Hot Code Loading in Node.js. Blaine Cook’s patch for Node.js that enables Erlang-style hot code loading, so you can switch out your application logic without restarting the server or affecting existing requests. This could make deploying new versions of Node applications trivial. I’d love to see a Node hosting service that allows you to simply upload a script file and have it execute on the Web.

# 1:57 pm / blaine-cook, deployment, erlang, javascript, node, nodejs

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