Erlang for node.js?

Another thing to look at...
hook.io @ github
a-series-of-hook-io-tutorials

More gadgets

I ordered a tablet; the NATPC M009S 7 inch 2GB Google Android Tablet PC - Cheapest 2.2 Android Tablet works with Flash 10.1 - WiFi , Touchscreen, Epad, Apad, Android Market, Youtube, Kindle and Facebook App

...it is still in the post, was £52.50 when I bought it, now priced at £ £69.95.

ab testing the node base client

Installed Apache ab for load testing

Using these instructions

Running the basex-node (0.2) Httpserver example

Local thinkpad t42:Result with 100 simultaneous users a constant 4.2 secs 

andy@ThinkPad-T42:~$ ab -n 300 -c 100 http://localhost:9000/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Finished 300 requests


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            9000

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        372 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   12.555 seconds
Complete requests:      300
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      130800 bytes
HTML transferred:       111600 bytes
Requests per second:    23.89 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       4185.159 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       41.852 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          10.17 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    6   8.9      0      25
Processing:    11 3490 1214.0   4172    4232
Waiting:        8 3490 1214.0   4172    4232
Total:         32 3497 1206.5   4172    4232

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   4172
  66%   4196
  75%   4208
  80%   4212
  90%   4216
  95%   4220
  98%   4228
  99%   4232
 100%   4232 (longest request)

On the Readynas pro 2

andy@ThinkPad-T42:~$ ab -n 300 -c 100 http://velvet:9000/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking velvet (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Finished 300 requests


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        velvet
Server Port:            9000

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        312 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   13.577 seconds
Complete requests:      300
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      112800 bytes
HTML transferred:       93600 bytes
Requests per second:    22.10 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       4525.533 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       45.255 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          8.11 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        1   16  19.3      4     139
Processing:    64 3795 1179.3   4316    4863
Waiting:       64 3795 1179.3   4316    4863
Total:         77 3811 1173.3   4319    4922

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   4319
  66%   4334
  75%   4364
  80%   4422
  90%   4619
  95%   4779
  98%   4853
  99%   4879
 100%   4922 (longest request)

Using from express faye app

andy@ThinkPad-T42:~$ ab -n 300 -c 100 http://orlop.webhop.info/faye/basex/This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking orlop.webhop.info (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Finished 300 requests


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        orlop.webhop.info
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /faye/basex/
Document Length:        312 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   13.030 seconds
Complete requests:      300
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      176856 bytes
HTML transferred:       93600 bytes
Requests per second:    23.02 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       4343.177 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       43.432 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          13.26 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        1   37 299.6      2    3013
Processing:    68 3590 1217.3   4214    4523
Waiting:       68 3590 1217.3   4212    4522
Total:         90 3628 1264.3   4217    7312

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   4217
  66%   4316
  75%   4320
  80%   4322
  90%   4336
  95%   4343
  98%   4345
  99%   7228
 100%   7312 (longest request)

basex modules published

v0.2 released to the world. It is here .
Node publishing is very easy...

npm adduser
...
npm publish
...

Readynas updates

Installed the latest versions

Needed to add index.xml to /etc/frontview/apache

<location>                                                                    
  Options ExecCGI                                                               
  DirectoryIndex redirect.html index.html index.htm index.php index.xml         
</location>