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.

Server/WebStack

• WebSockets, SPDY Protocol, HTTP2.0 - .. “Tommorrows technology for todays web!”.

Java

• RESTful Webservices with Spring/Java - Extensive tutorial in 7(!) parts.

HTML5

• HTML5 Reference Poster
• Presentation about “The Bleeding Edge of HTML5” - . New CSS techniques, Javascript APIs, Multimedia thingys .. Works mostly only in Chrome and Safari. Very intersting!.

Mobile

• iOS UI Patterns, - Overview of UI Patterns in iOS Apps.
• Android UI Patterns
• VIM for the iPad. - Useful: Nope. Geeky: Yep!
• Android Terminal IDE. - Useful: Yep. Geeky: Yep!

JavaScript/CSS

• The “Hello World” of Web-Programming - How to build a Blog App using NodeJS, MongoDB & CoffeeScript (using a BDD approach).
• thorax - Application Framework for Backbone Apps. (including underscore, zepto, handlebars, stylus, …).
• jQuery Collapse - Expanding & Collapsing Content (with CookieSupport, ARIA Compliant, lightweight, …).
• nodejs & aws - nodejs Library to talk to Amazon Webservices.
• WAT?! - 10min lightning talk about “WATs”* of Ruby & Javascript, very entertaining

Ruby

• vesperapps - New web app framework based on Sinatra.
• subtle - A Window Tiling Manager for Linux, with a Ruby-Scripting Layer.