2. whoami
CEO of Netoprise - we make social B2B Collaboration platform
NodeJS fan
Java coder
BPM integration consultant
Co-organizer of Silicon Valley Semantic Technology meetup
7. More useful packages
Backbone.js - provides models, collections and views to
Javascript
Underscore.js - utility library to add functional programming to
Javascript: "a tie to JQuery's tux"
Socket.io - a package to help make realtime apps
Coffeescript - a little language that compiles into JavaScript
Find more at http://search.npmjs.org/
8. Benefits of NodeJS
Extremely fast
Event-driven
2 years old and already a huge community
Javascript all the way down