People complain that twice a year their sleep schedule changes.

But they don't see the advantage of summertime: that you have an hour more light every day throughout the summer. Talking to friends in the garden, barbecues, walking on the beach with your loved one: the things you have the best memories of now get dark an hour earlier.

Letting all the people with all the knowledge go is indeed not so smart. You better have a development team with both employees and freelancers. So knowledge about the software keeps inside the company. Working with employees only has the danger of getting tunnel vision: "This is what we always did and it works for us". Working with (experienced) freelancers has the benefit of bringing in new knowledge and new insights.

Of course you also need to have some code standards, but there's no difference between employees and freelancers in this respect.

In the web development world a stack is the combination of webserver, database and programming language, so you have the well known LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) and the Java stack (Tomcat [for example], Oracle [for example] and Java) and the Microsoft stack (Windows, IIS, SQL Server and C#). Now you also have the JavaScript stack (Node.js [with build in webserver] and MongoDB).

Román Cortés has written a nice, detailed explanation of how he made his Furbee demo:

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/furbee-my-js1k-spring-13-entry/

Very interesting read.

The problem is not JavaScript, but programmers who think "it's just a scripting language, how hard can this be". And they hit a brick wall again and again because JavaScript is a language with its own features, features that has to be learnt.

And JavaScript is unmaintanable? It's just a programming language. It's up to the programmer to structure your code. How is that different from other languages? Of course it's possible to write maintainable large projects in JavaScript.

I agree best practices and frameworks are still being developed and improved, but is JavaScript a horrible language? No, it isn't.

System Operator arrested for leaving the computer system of the company he worked for vulnerable for attacks by kids. Oh wait...

Wow, so you found a bug in beta software? You know what beta means, do you? Apparently, not.

The first ten reactions are about how slow Java is. Wake up! It's 2007, NOT 1997. The world has changed. Don't you keep your knowledge up to date? Are you amateurs? And no, a benchmark from 2001 doesn't count too.