Interesting Thingys is a gazette in the blog that summarizes a week of blog articles, links, specifications, demos, news or more general “thingys” that we stumble upon in our journey through the world wide web.

Boilerplates

• HTML5-Boilerplate - everyone should know this one.
• Initializr2 - makes HTML5 boilerplates ‘customizable’.
• Responsive Template - Article about “Responsive Template” using Initializr2 or a “Mobile First Approach” with media queries.
• Backbone.js boilerplate - Boilerplate for the backbone.js guys.

Javascript

• Consumer Apps with Node - Why node.js matters (And how to convince management).
• underscore.js - underscore.js has a website - w00t.
• impress.js - A presentation Framework similar to Prezi written in Javascript and Canvas.
• jimpress.js - Jquery Implementation von impress.js.

CSS

• @font-face & unicode range - Neat trick using @font-face & unicode-range, or: how to apply to different @font-face’s on the same text.

ObjectiveC

• sparrow framework - Game-Framework for OpenGL Games .. without OpenGL Programming.

Services

• respondto.it - Debugging Web Hooks.

Server/Architecture

• ‘What powers instagram’ - An interesting article about the ‘Stack’ used by Instagram.com.
• Free MS Windows Server 2008 RC 2 - on Amazon EC2 Instance for 750 hours per month.

Mac

• braumeister - Online Package Browser for Homebrew.