--- title: "This Week's Node News - Issue 75" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 75 published_at: "2015-02-26" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/75" --- This Week's Node News - Issue 75 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/75) Node WeeklyFebruary 26, 2015 #75 Read Write [Who's Going To Run Node.js, And Why That Matters](http://readwrite.com/2015/02/21/node-js-foundation-io-js-whos-going-to-run-it?#)A high level overview of the current situation with the new Node Foundation, the Govern Node Right campaign, and io.js. InfoWorld [Node.js Fork JXcore Goes Open Source, Aims for Mobile Developers](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2886740/application-development/nodejs-variant-jxcore-goes-open-source-aims-for-mobile-developers.html)JXcore is a Node.js fork that extended it with multithreading capabilities, an app packaging system, and more. It’s now [open source.](https://github.com/jxcore/jxcore) io.js [io.js 1.4.1 Released: Now Includes Debuggable ES6 Promises](https://github.com/iojs/io.js/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md) MailgunSponsor [Send email using the Mailgun API](http://www.mailgun.com/?utm_source=nodeweeklyFeb26=email=mailgunAPI)Easy SMTP integration and a simple, RESTful API abstracts away the messy details of sending transactional or bulk email. Scale quickly, whether you need to send 10 or 10 million emails. Start sending email now with Mailgun. [![Mailgun\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/11cfeec0.png)](http://www.mailgun.com/?utm_source=nodeweeklyFeb26=email=mailgunAPI) The npm Blog [Using jQuery Plugins with npm](http://blog.npmjs.org/post/112064849860/using-jquery-plugins-with-npm)Now that jQuery plugins should be published using npm, Lin Clark looks at how you can use plugins published this way. Oguz Bastemur [Now asm.js is Available for Node Apps](http://oguzbastemur.blogspot.com/2015/02/now-asmjs-is-available-for-nodejs.html)Using the alternative JXcore implementation which embeds Firefox’s SpiderMonkey JS engine. Marcos Placona [Building Your Own Personal Assistant with Twilio and Google Calendar](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/02/building-your-own-personal-assistant-with-twilio-and-google-calendar.html)An extensive tutorial where you get to build a script that can automatically start a call you have scheduled in your Google Calendar. Jobs - [Node.js engineer for small team serving over 6.7 million teachers](http://wikispaces.workable.com/jobs/40877) TES USA, based in San Francisco, is built on a microservices architecture using Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and Docker. Over 50 million unique visitors come to our sites every month. If you want to be challenged and have real impact, we want to hear from you. TES USA - [Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO JPMorgan](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=node_weekly=cpm-newsletter=node_weekly_job) Work on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite HTML5 developer. See if you have what it takes. TopTal In Brief - [npm's CTO: "1 billion downloads in the last 30 days, and accelerating"](https://twitter.com/seldo/status/566403297368485888) news Laurie Voss - [AngularJS Application Development Workshop](https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/angularjs-app-dev/) news Learn AngularJS patterns by seeing how an application is put together. Frontend MastersSponsor - [FullStack 2015: A JS, Node & IoT Conf in London (Jun 25-27)](https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/6612-fullstack) news CFP open till Mar 20. - [Getting Started with Node on the Hummingboard, a Raspberry Pi Clone](http://thenewstack.io/getting-started-node-js-raspberry-pi/) tutorial The New Stack - [Watch Files and Directories with Node.js](http://davidwalsh.name/node-watch-file) tutorial David Walsh - [How to Save Precious Bytes On A Node.js Server](https://engineering.gosquared.com/optimise-node-http-server) tutorial GoSquared Engineering - [Why Use Node.js? A Recap of and Some Takeaways From the Node Summit](http://www.hubba.com/why-use-nodejs) opinion David Misshula - [On Moving to io.js (from Node)](https://news.floobits.com/2015/02/23/on-moving-to-io.js/) opinion Floobits - [Why I Do Not Support a Node Foundation](http://hueniverse.com/2015/02/24/why-i-do-not-support-a-node-foundation/) opinion Eran Hammer - [5 Free Screencast Sites for Node Developers](http://scottksmith.com/blog/2015/02/26/5-fantastic-and-free-screencast-sites-for-node-developers/) video Scott Smith - [node-schedule: A Flexible Job Scheduler for Node](https://github.com/mattpat/node-schedule) code Schedule jobs (arbitrary functions) for execution at specific dates, with optional recurrence rules. Matt Patenaude - [mapbox-gl-native: Renders Map Tiles with Mapbox GL](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mapbox-gl-native) code Mike Morris - [Horseman.js: Drive PhantomJS from Node](http://www.horsemanjs.org/) code John Titus - [Node.js and Cassandra: Improved JavaScript Type Support](http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/nodejs-cassandra-javascript-type-support) code The Node.js driver for Apache Cassandra has a lot of new features. DataStax - [CLI Parse: Declarative Command Line Parsing Library for Node](http://blog.clement.delafargue.name/posts/2015-02-25-declarative-cli-parsing-in-js.html) code Clément Delafargue Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). Want to sponsor an issue? See our [media kit.](https://cooperpress.com/mediakit) Want to post a job? 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