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.

Mobile Development

• Sencha Touch - a HTML5 Mobile Application Framework, version 2.0 released.

CSS

• Replacing the -9999px hack (aka new image replacement)
• CSS4 (!) Selectors
• CSS 4 Selectors - the non shortened version

HTML5

• airscape - Very addicting (& rotating) HTML5 Game.

Ruby / Rails / ASP MVC

• mass-assignment vulnerability - Article about Mass-Assignment Vulnerability in Rails (“Github got hacked!”) .. Und why other web frameworks are “vulnarable” to this weakness too.
• unwind - GEM: take a url and figure out what it actually points to .. Useful for all this t.co/bit.ly/etc URLs

Javascript

• html2canvas - Take a screenshot from a webpage.
• smooth.js - Library for smooth array functions, like interpolation, nearest neighbour, linear, cubic, etc .. Neat!

Webserver / Databases

• Load Balancing & Reverse Proxying with nginx
• How to model NoSQL databases

PHP

• PHP 5.4.0 released! - New features: traits, shortened array syntax & a built-in webserver for testing!.

Team Building

• Small teams go faster - nice presentation.

C

• Metaprogramming custom control structures in C - .. wow

Command Line

• tmux - screen is dead, long live tmux!
• curl - tips’n’tricks.

Useful Stuff

• List of Countries in all languages in various formats
• How to deal with code you don’t write - Interesting

Fun / Interesting

• The 5 Stages of Debugging - .. stage 1: “Ignore it”
• why VI uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys - By the way: I want this T-Shirt!