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.

Android (+Ruby)

• Ruby on Android device via Ruboto - … a little tutorial.

CSS

• A flip-switch in CSS3

Mobile Development / Industry

• Article about Instagram - why they do not offer an Android App.

JavaScript

• turnjs - Page-Turn animation for HTML.
• event-binding with jquery - bind(), live(), delegate() & on() … event-binding with jQuery: differences, pitfalls and performance killer.
• modernizr Supercharged - v2.5 released!.
• tty.js - A terminal for your browser (node.js, socket.io, express).

Ruby

• Ruby trick shots - 24 Ruby tricks you did not know about… Nice!.

Databases

• try redis! - Redis is a key-value store for advanced data structure like strings, hashes, lists, sets, etc .. Try it in your browser!.
• “The Redis Manifesto” - Statement about Redis and Software Development: “code is like a poem” & “we optimize for joy”.

Git

• visualize git-log - in a calendar-view (& excel).

Programming

• podcasts for hackers - List of programming/startup specific podcasts.
• programming anecdotes from game developers

Fun/physics

• “How to fly a Soyuz Space Capsule” - … a developer should be able to do that! ;).