This week’s links feature again a wide variety of good reads and fabulous tools. Enjoy!

JavaScript

• fredwu/skinny-coffee-machine A simple state machine with observers.
• pufuwozu/bilby.js Serious functional programming library for JavaScript.
• michaelficarra/CoffeeScriptRedux rewrite of the CoffeeScript compiler with proper compiler design principles and a focus on robustness and extensibility
• BookBlock: A Content Flip Plugin | Codrops A jQuery plugin that will create a booklet-like component that let’s you navigate through its items by flipping the pages.
• davist11/jQuery-Stickem Make items sticky as you scroll, to a point.
• uxebu/bonsai BonsaiJS is a graphics library and renderer

CSS

• Big CSS // Speaker Deck Harry Roberts about writing BIG-Css files
• gradient: All the CSS3 properties explained | css3files.com everything you wanted to know about gradients
• Stacking Changes Coming to position:fixed elements - HTML5Rocks Updates A recent spec change is going to slightly change the layout behavior of position:fixed elements.
• CSS-Only Sticky Headers for Tables, Using ‘position: sticky’ sticky table headers with just css, a dream from the past come true
• CSS-Only Sticky Headers for Tables, Using ‘position: sticky’ sticky table headers with just css, a dream from the past come true

HTML (5)

• Mashups using CORS and responseType=’document’ - Eric Bidelman XHR2 CORS == mashup

Web Development

• Yeoman - Modern workflows for modern webapps Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a workflow that can help developers quickly build beautiful, compelling web apps.
• simpl.info aims to provide the simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• BOWER THE BROWSER PACKAGE MANAGER html, css, and javascript
• Sticky Menus Are Quicker To Navigate | Smashing UX Design Usability study on sticky menus
• Responsive Web Design Resources | This Is Responsive Your ultimate responsive Webdesign Starterkit

Mobile Development

• square/seismic Android device shake detection.
• mattt/SkyLab Multivariate
• Creative UI Design Examples for Great UX | Awwwards some great UI designs
• The Pragmatic Studio | RubyMotion Screencast PragProg has compiled a 50min screencast on RubyMotion

Ruby

• Labrador a web-based database client for your rails apps .. nicely integrated with pow
• The End of Monkeypatching Monkey-patching is so 2010. We’re in the future, and with Github and Bundler there is now rarely a need to monkey-patch Ruby code in your applications.
• mattt/houston Apple Push Notifications
• Code Tuning, a programming pearl in Ruby | Daniel Lobato optimizing a simple sequential search through an array
• pg_power - ActiveRecord extension for PostgreSQL - Sergey Potapov Use PostgresSQL schemas in your Rails project. Add comments to PostgreSQL database with Rails migrations. Use foreign keys (we imported foreigner functionality and made it schema aware). Use partial indexes. Add indexes concurrently.
• burke/zeus Boot any rails app in under a second.
• Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new - Literate Programming If you didn’t know, classes are first-class objects in Ruby:

Node.js

• Mongoosastic Full text search for mongoose with elasticsearch
• » Production Deployment with node.js Clusters Bricolage Detailed article on how to deploy node with cluser support on production
• Upstart and Node.js by Iain Grant how to get node up and running with upstart

Browsers

• Changeset 127864 – WebKit - SCSS support This change modifies the existing CSS highlighter to support SCSS as well. The “text/x-scss” mime-type is assigned to SASSSource.
• Clearing Browser Data | High Performance Web Sites a comprehensive writeup on browser caches

Shell

• why GNU grep is fast the grep internals
• erikw/tmux-powerline Statusbar configuration for tmux that looks like vim-powerline and consist of dynamic segments.
• Xiki A shell console with GUI features. Xiki does what shell consoles do, but lets you edit everything at any time. It’s trivial to make your own commands and menus to access other tools.

Audio

• September 11, 2012: Opus audio codec is now RFC6716, Opus 1.0.1 reference source released IETF standardizes the Opus audio codec as RFC 6716 Opus reference implementation 1.0.1 released

Programming

• Naming From the Outside In - Kent Beck Name methods from the caller’s perspective

Databases

• TylerBrock/mongo-hacker MongoDB Shell Enhancements for Hackers
• Scaling out Postgres, Part 1: Partitioning detailed article on how to partition PostGresql
• Scaling out Postgres, Part 2: Routing Part 2 describes the way to store and retrieve date in a shared environment

Editors

• Code substitution done right - Switch.vim - Vim plugins, tips, tricks and tutorials Switch.vim by Andrew Radev is a highly customizable plugin that will help you do substitutions faster than ever.
• sergeche/emmet-sublime A work-in-progress official plugin for Sublime Text 2 with upcoming Emmet toolkit, previously called Zen Coding. This plugin will eventually replace current plugin: https://github.com/sublimator/ZenCoding

Tools

• Mac OSX Shortcut CheatSheet Just hold the ⌘-Key a bit longer to get a list of all active short cuts of the current application.

Watching

• Malcolm Wallace - Functional Programming Functional Programming talks at conferences such as ICFP.

Miscellaneous

• OwnedCore - World of Warcraft Exploits, Hacks, Bots and Guides Looking inside your screenshots

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