Netuality

… which according to VentureBeat and various media outlets is a Dropbox competitor that “allows you to seamlessly drag and drop files from your computer to the cloud with little work“. Not!

Guess what, it’s about file synchronization. File. Synchronization. Fully-fledged both-ways file syncing from all my laptops and devices to the cloud and back, not just “uploading a file to the cloud with little work“.

I guess the new SkyDrive and Google Drive tools are putting a lot of pressure, but if this app is the answer then it’s a bad one. Come on, Amazon, you can do better!

Great pragmatic considerations in Felix Geisendörfer’s Node.js: convincing the boss guide:

• Not for CPU-heavy apps
• There’s no Django for it (yet?) so don’t expect mindblowing productivity
• Don’t do it for the nerdy buzzword bingo …
• … do it for single-page js apps that feed with JSON from the server
• Do it if real-time is important for your app