Node.js shortened URL decoder
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For quite a while I've had Node.js on my list of things to look into as soon as I can. Today I finally messed around with it for the first time. Especially now that HP/Palm's WebOS 2.0 is going to have Node.js for background services I just had to dive into it. Verdict: Awesome. If you know JavaScript you already know Node.js. There's really nothing to it. We can now use JavaScript both on the server and on the client. Bad ass. And it's fast too. The possibilities are endless.
It took me a while to figure out something to do as a first experiment. Eventually I managed to come up with something fairly useful. My first Node.js experiment is a tiny little service that essentially does the same thing real-url.org does. Feed it a shortened URL and this little service will answer with the real URL that's hidden behind it.
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