This week a potpourri of tech topics…
GIT
- Geohub - locate your github buddies on a map
- Gitspective - A different perspective of a Github User - create a Facebook like timeline of your Github account
Ruby
- marshally / rspec-rails-uncommitted - rake tasks for rails-3 which selectively run specs based on your SCM status. What a great idea.
- The Bastards Book of Ruby - A Programming Primer for Counting and Other Unconventional Tasks
HTML5
- Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
- sindresorhus / screenfull.js - Simple wrapper for cross-browser usage of the JavaScript Fullscreen API.
Javascript
- jQuery Knob - knobs for the masses
CSS
- CSS Arrow - Generate the CSS for a tooltip arrow.
- SASS vs. LESS - “Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?” is a hot topic lately.
Mac
- TwUI - TwUI is a hardware accelerated UI framework for Mac, inspired by UIKit
- Dash - snippet manager and documentation browser, supports lots of programming languages and snippets can be sync via a Dropbox folder.
Browser
Other
- Vert.x: Why the JVM May Put Node.js on the Ropes - Vert.x is the framework for the next generation of asynchronous, effortlessly scalable, concurrent applications.
- Free Language Agnostic Programming Books - A comprehensive list of free books collected at stackoverflow
Hosting / Server / SPDY
- OpenShift - RedHat’s answer to Heroku
- Nginx - Upcoming SPDY support details
- SPDY performance on mobile networks - I alwaysb thought that SPDY will imporve page load times on mobile platforms, here is the proof.
Videos / Talks / Books
- Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement now in print