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.
HTML5
- How a web application can download and store over 2GB without you even knowing it
- Maintaining CSS Style States using “Infinite” Transition Delays
.NET
- ASP.NET MVC now OpenSource - .. hosted on CodePlex with GIT support.
JavaScript
- Hammer.js - A javascript library for multi-touch gestures
- How to write low garbage real-time Javascript - A great article describing the pitfalls of the JavaScript garbage collector, when doing game development.
- Fibers and Threads in node.js – what for? - describes the benefits and shortcommings of using fibers and threads within node.js
- Introduction to JavaScript Source Maps - HTML5 Rocks
- HTML5 Canvas + JS Firewors .. oh so pretty!
- JSwiki - This wiki indexes libraries and resources available for JavaScript.
- Foresight.js - checks, whether the user has a highres device like the iPad3, before images are loaded, so you can deliver highres images
Server / Operating Systems
- Load Balancing and Reverse Proxying with Nginxi - how to use nginx before a rack up or even a PHP app as a reverse proxy
Ruby
- Barebone models to use with ActionPack in Rails 4.0
- Ruby 2.0 Enumerable::Lazy - Lazy enumerables will be landing in Ruby 2.0
- The Ruby Refresher - if haven’t looked at Ruby for a while, take a look at The Ruby Refresher
- Function Ruby Programming Techniques - methods, procs, blocks and lambdas in ruby!
- Cinch - the irc bot building framework in ruby.
Objective-C
- ObjC on the Server - yes, it’s possible!
IDEs / Editors
CommandLine
- su, sudo su, sudo -u -i - how to get into a shell as another user with no password.
Agile
- Agile is a sham - good read about a strong opinion.
Presentations / Talks
Physics / Science
- Questions No One Knows the Answers to - TED-Ed(uction) video worth watching (for the curious child in you..)
- Tricorder Project - a tricorder comes to life.