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JavaScript

• JavaScript Objectobserve - Bocoup Everything you think you know about data binding — and every trick MVC libraries are using to pull it off — is about to be flipped on its head.
• JavaScript Design Patterns: Decorator - Rob Dodson talks internets This time the a short overview on the decorator pattern
• nbartlomiej/foggy Foggy is a jQuery plugin for blurring page elements. It supports IE (8 and up), Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
• Infinity.js is a UITableView for the web: it speeds up scrolling through long lists and keeps your infinite feeds smooth and stable for your users
• Introduction to XMLHttpRequest Level 2 - Dev.Opera XMLHttpRequest allows developers to make HTTP and HTTPS requests and modify the current page without reloading it. Submitting forms and retrieving additional content are two common uses.
• Real time Three.js coding Try it
• WickyNilliams/enquire.js enquire.js is a pure javascript framework for programmatically responding to CSS media queries.
• Extensible jQuery Plugin Development by Shane Riley - YouTube Have you ever had to exclude an element from a collection so you could run a plugin method with two different sets of arguments? Have you ever had to modify someone else’s (or maybe your own) plugin for a specific use case and felt dirty for doing so?
• Node Version 0.8.8 (stable) * V8: upgrade to 3.11.10.19 * npm: upgrade to 1.1.59 * windows: fix uninitialized memory access in uv_update_time() (Bert Belder) * unix, windows: fix memory corruption in fs-poll.c (Ben Noordhuis) * unix: fix integer overflow in uv_hrtime (Tim Holy) * sunos: fix uv_cpu_info() on x86_64 (Ben Noordhuis) * tls: update default cipher list (Ben Noordhuis) * unix: Fix llvm and older gcc duplicate symbol warnings (Bert Belder) * fs: fix use after free in stat watcher (Ben Noordhuis) * build: Fix using manually compiled gcc on OS X (Nathan Rajlich) * windows: make junctions work again (Bert Belder)

CSS

• CSS :target for Off-Screen Designs | CSS-Tricks show and hide stuff with the :target selector
• Bourbon Neat Neat is an open source fluid grid framework built on top of Sass and Bourbon using em units and golden ratios.
• Meny - CSS 3D fold-in menu concept 3d fold-in menu

HTML (5)

• HTML5-Boilerplate v4.0.0 see the full changlog
• Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support This enables you to build frontends the interact directly with S3 without the need of a proxy server.
• Make disaster-proof HTML5 forms | Tutorial | .net magazine Shwetank Dixit of Opera Software explains how to use localStorage to save data offline so that what a user types into the form isn’t lost if disaster strikes

Web Development

• A Front End Engineer’s Manifesto Read and agree or disagree….

Mobile Development

• In wich I rant about developing on Android | Bitboxer android vs. ios development
• clayallsopp/twittermotion - TwitterMotion, a RubyMotion Wrapper not yet fully compatible

Ruby

• Random Ruby Tricks: Struct.new - Literate Programming some examples and explanations on Structs and OStructs
• c00lryguy/cacheable_attr Allow any Ruby object’s attributes to be cacheable
• Programming With Ruby Episode 17, Getting Advanced | Man With Code Covered In This Episode: Symbols, eval, Bindings, Running Other Programs, Safe Levels
• Best of Ruby Quiz - Volume One PragProg has compiled RubyQuiz into a PDF
• Writing Beautiful RSpec Matchers - Rob@Rojotek thoughtbot have created a really nice set of custom matchers for RSpec. The Shoulda matchers make writing tests for rails models beautiful and clean.
• Headius: Avoiding Hash Lookups in a Ruby Implementation Really interesting writeup by Charles Nutter on why hash tables are not the answer to every (optimization) question.. in fact, anything but!
• Active Admin 0.5.0 has been released! | REVERB a long anticipated update has finaly come
• Using Recursive SQL with ActiveRecord trees - The Hashrocket Blog When you have an ActiveRecord tree structure, using the WITH syntax for recursive SQL can provide large performance boons, especially when a tree get several levels deep.
• ruote 2.3.0 released new version of the ruby workflow engine

Python

• Creating a REST API in Python using Bottle and MongoDB REST API in python using bottle

Browsers

• Chrome Time Machine an interactive journey through Chrome’s history

Shell

• Automate your shell scripts using inotifywait | La Gentz Blog … or the poor man’s IFTTT

Linux

• Glances by nicolargo Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux and BSD OS.
• GNU Core utils cheatsheet A cheatsheet for the most common tools

Programming

• Language Compare F#, Ocaml, Scala, Clojure, Ruby and Haskell - Simple AST example — Gist Interesting read, there should be more like this
• An Introduction to libuv The library behind node.js

Databases

• Don’t use MongoDB an open letter with some very bad experiences
• Use MongoDB! a response to the “Don’t use MongoDB” gist, from the CTO of 10gen

Git

• Deploying a website using Git via SSH remote simple deployment with post-recieve hook

Tools

• malditogeek/astor-collector An alternative to StatsD/Graphite.
• malditogeek/astor-dashboard Real-time metric visualisation for Astor

Performance

• How we keep GitHub fast The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is

Watching

• On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces | USENIX The security risks involved in using consumer-grade BCI devices have never been studied and the impact of malicious software with access to the device is unexplored.
• Epic Linux Community Song Featuring Linus Torvalds - YouTube The community rallied together at LinuxCon and CloudOpen around song. Yes, a collaborative song, featuring Linus Torvalds, that shares at least one way we feel about the old way of building software.
• Shyam Sankar: The rise of human-computer cooperation | Video on TED.com Human-Machine-Symbiosis, is it the future?

Reading

• PragProg Magazine Issue #39, September 2012 is out Topics: Thinking Functionally with Haskell, Tales from the Ops Side, US Visa: My First iPhone App Grab is in your favorite format
• An Introduction to Programming in Go read the online version

Miscellaneous

• Detecting Pitches in music with R — Gary Sieling Just some lines of R suffice for this task
• Mining Twitter data with Ruby, MongoDB and Map-Reduce | Greg Moreno n is the best time to tweet? If you care about reaching a lot of users, the best time probably is when your followers are also tweeting. In this exercise,we will try to figure out the day and time users are the most active. Since there is no way for us to do this for all users in the twitterverse, we will only use the users we follow as our sample.

Markdown

• Heck Yes Markdown convert a webpage into markdown

Fun

• Fun and unusual HTTP response headers I like “X-Powered-By: Bananas and Rum”

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