Interesting Thingys 33 - yield the dog

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JavaScript

madrobby/pragmatic.js Pragmatic rules for writing JavaScript
p01/mmd.js mmd.js is a standalone minimalist Markdown parser written in ~860 bytes of JavaScript.
Testing Backbone RequireJS Applications with Jasmine | Simple Thoughts Writing tests for your code may not reduce the number of bugs, but it will make fixing the bugs you inevitably find easier.
Responsive Measure: A jQuery plugin for responsive typography A jQuery plugin for generating a responsive ideal measure.

SOLID CSS | Blog | Miller Medeiros What is the best way to have a solid CSS base?
The Shapes of CSS Nice collection of shapes that can be achieved with CSS

Creative Web Typography Styles nice examples of what you can do with fonts and css
Creating .webm video from getUserMedia() - Eric Bidelman That’s cool. Javascript’s possibilities expand everyday
Spotlight bookmarklet — Gist A bookmarklet that produces a spotlight with CSS clip path

videlalvaro/gifsockets Real Time communication library using Animated Gifs as a transport™
Bower components Search for bower components
iPhone 5 website teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas interesting read on how and why they did use a canvas instead of a video element
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 for HTML5 developers, a big step forward: web inspector, new APIs and more | Breaking the Mobile Web New Features in iOS 6 for Webdevelopers

J2ObjC: A Java to iOS Objective-C translator open source release of J2ObjC, a Google-authored translator that converts Java source code into Objective-C source for iPhone/iPad applications.
Perf Feedback - What’s slowing down Mobile Facebook from Tobie Langel on 2012-09-15 (public-coremob@w3.org from September 2012) Facebook engineer talks about what’s missing in Mobile Web Development
rubymotion/BubbleWrap ActiveSupport for RubyMotion

headius/fastruby A Ruby static compiler.
pull request #7251 from rails/integrate-strong_parameters strongparameters instead of attr_accesible
Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: PostgreSQL array support How Rails 4 can take advantage of PostgreSQL’s arrays
What to Expect in Rails 4.0 presentation @ boston ruby group

IonMonkey in Firefox 18 | JavaScript JS performance boost for FF 18
Chrome Experiment #500 500 chrome experiments have been submitted. Chrome is celebrating
Google Apps update alerts: Supporting modern browsers: Internet Explorer 8 support discontinued the journey continues

Mosh: the mobile shell Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links.

defaultxr/tracker.el an osc music tracker/sequencer for emacs
My Sublime Text Configuration A few people have recently… Some Sublime 2 gems
Andrey Tarantsov: Sublime Text Workflow That Beats Coda and Espresso Get up and running with Sublime

Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread | Video on TED.com In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.
Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work | Video on TED.com Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn’t a good place to do it.
Zen and the Art of TDD A 25 minute walk through the top 5 reasons to do TDD, with a focus on examples in JavaScript.
Sophisticated Views: How Ember’s View Layer Handles the Complex Problems on Vimeo What to do when a webapp gets complicated?

mavam/stat-cookbook The probability and statistics cookbook contains a succinct representation of various topics in probability theory and statistics. It provides a comprehensive mathematical reference reduced to its essence, rather than aiming for elaborate explanations.

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