And another issue of Interesting Thingys…

JavaScript

• Test-Driven Node.js Development with Grunt - Mark Dalgleish describes how to set up a node project with Grunt and use it to test your app
• angular/angularjs-batarang ChromeExtension to debug AngularJS apps
• ECMAScript 6 collections, Part 1: Sets | NCZOnline nice walkthrough of JavaScript’s sets
• Websockets 101 | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings Interested in the internals of websockets?
• appjs/appjs AppJS is a sort of SDK to develop desktop applications using Node.js melded with Chromium.
• awgreenblatt/reveal-shaders Reveal.js presentation using CSS Shaders for transitions
• cujojs/when tiny Promise library that works in the browser and node.js

CSS

• “Old” Flexbox and “New” Flexbox | CSS-Tricks Solves some of the confusion
• clearleft/clearless A collection of reusable LESS mixins

HTML (5)

• 7 HTML5 features that you may not know about Aaron Lumsden | Aaronlumsden.com Link prefetching, download, hidden, output, …

Web Development

• peric/GetCountries This script will generate MySQL “Countries” table depending on what fields you select. All data is fetched from geonames.org
• Browser testing across devices with Adobe Edge Inspect | Adobe Developer Connection Introduction to Adobe Edge’s capabilities to test accross browsers
• Learnable Programming - Bret Victor A very, veeeeery long article that builds on the concepts shown in ‘Inventing on principle’
• cubiq/infiniwall Infinite, loopable, lazy loaded, 360° scroller for desktop and mobile

Mobile Development

• simonmaddox/GoogleTransit-iOS6 Use Google Maps for Mobile’s Transit Directions in iOS6’s Maps.app
• RubyMotion gets iOS 6, iPhone 5, debugger - RubyMotion Blog A big update on RubyMotion.
• Is iOS6 Safari caching $.ajax results? - Stack Overflow Good to know

Ruby

• Guide - ruby-security - Ruby Security Reviewer’s Guide - Ruby: Security Reviewer’s Guide - Google Project Hosting A Google Ruby Security guide…
• mattt/rack-smart-app-banner Rack middleware to automatically include code for Smart App Banner, introduced in iOS 6
• po-ru.com: Ruby’s magic underscore use _ to hide unused variables
• rails/turbolinks Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster (use with Rails Asset Pipeline)

Node.js

• indutny/node-spdy now works with express sessions
• Deployd Deployd is a platform that makes building complex backends simple.
• DailyJS: Express 3 Tutorial: Contact Forms with CSRF practical introduction to writing Express 3 applications complete with CSRF protection

Clojure

• cgrand/utils useful functions and extensible macros

Browsers

• Speech JavaScript API Specification - now available in Chrome The Speech JS API is now available in Chrome Dev in about:flags

Databases

• jmikola/mongoqp · GitHub A frontend for MongoDB’s query profiler collection.

Security

• [VULNERABILITY] Remote wipe via iframe USSD trigger - xda-developers Remote wiping Android devices via iframes

Watching

• Pure JavaScript on Vimeo Christian Johansen on functional JavaScript
• ‘Working with HTML’ - Emacs Rocks! new episode on HTML
• Writing a Rails Engine - Erik Michaels-Ober - Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2012 As of Rails 3.2, plugins are officially deprecated. They have been replaced by Rails Engines, a class of public methods for hooking into Rails applications.

Reading

• How Google Builds Its Maps - and What It Means for the Future of Everything theatlantic.com about the work behind Google Maps

Interview

• Typical Programmer - Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git Linus Torvalds on Git and Linux

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