Today’s π-day and great things happened this week on the web. We got new releases (NodeJS, JSHint, Sinatra, Zepto) and lot’s of other useful thingys, read on…

JavaScript

• marijnh/tern · GitHub A JavaScript code analyzer for deep, cross-editor language support
• Zepto 1.0 Congrats to Version 1.0
• ECMAScript 6 and Rest Parameter Intro to ES6 Rest parameter
• JSHint 1.1.0 is out with some new options that help you lint your code
• Testacular - Spectacular Test Runner for Javascript Version 0.6 is out. The angular team is worknig hard on improving their test environment
• SlowmoJS Javascript in Slow Motion.
• Formula.js JavaScript implementation of most formula functions supported by Microsoft Excel 2013 and Google Spreadsheets
• olivernn/lunr.js · GitHub A bit like Solr, but much smaller and not as bright

CSS

• Tips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets very helpful

HTML5

• On WebGL — Acko.net Interesting article on the state of WebGL paired with some shiny examples.

Web Development

• igrigorik/webp-detect · GitHub WebP User-Agent detection
• Accelerated Rendering in Chrome: The Layer Model - HTML5 Rocks Know the in’s and out’s of accelerated rendering and Chrome’s layer model for compositing.
• Huddle/PhantomCSS · GitHub CSS regression testing. An integration of Resemble.js with PhantomJS and CasperJS for automating visual regression testing and test coverage of Website styling to support refactoring of CSS.
• Touch And Mouse: Together Again For The First Time - HTML5 Rocks New HTML5Rocks article on implementing Touch and Mouse user interface together by Chris Wilson and Paul Kinlan!

Ruby

• Upgrading Rails: Gems Extracted in Rails 4 — Andy Lindeman Upgrade guide for extracted gems.
• rkh.im | What’s new in Sinatra 1.4? new http methods, more template languages, …
• WebSockets on Rails 4 and Ruby 2 - Pogoapp How to setup Rails and WebSockets

Node.js

• visionmedia/n · GitHub Simple flavour of node binary management, no subshells, no profile setup, no convoluted api, just simple.
• Scaling Node.js Applications | Colin J. Ihrig’s Blog Possibilites to scale a node app
• Taming Configurations with node-convict – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 7 ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog a tool that helps manage the configuration of node.js applications
• Weltschmerz/Lactate · GitHub Featureful static file server for Node
• substack/hyperquest · GitHub treat http requests as a streaming transport
• Node v0.10.0 (Stable) Streams2, Domains and much more

Linux

• Unix Tricks Some useful stuff here

Programming

• Reddit | Good readable code. A subreaddit deticated to readable code
• PHP is the right tool for the job (for all the wrong reasons) - Sam says you should read this Why PHP?

Databases

• Handling Growth with Postgres: 5 Tips From Instagram - Instagram Engineering What is Instagram using to scale PG

Editors

• WebStorm 6.0 released: adds TypeScript, debugging with source maps, fresh UI and much more | WebStorm Happy Release to JetBrains!
• Seth Messer : Clean vim draw/artifacts Fix draw artifacts in vim

Watching

• MySQL to NoSQL: Data Modeling Challenges in Supporting Scalability Kenneth M. Anderson shares some of the data modeling issues encountered while transitioning from a relational database to NoSQL.

Listening

• WebGL Podcast - Episode 3 Hear about how he got into 3D, why he loves helping people, and what he feels is needed to take 3D-based apps to the next level.

Miscellaneous

• Open Source And Responsibility - Felix Geisendörfer What is the responsibility of an open source author? Some food for thought from Felix.
• Coffitivity - Increase Your Creativity! with some ambient (beta)
• Popular | Breakpoint Share your side projects and get feedback with Breakpoint.

Fun

• Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? A question as old as the book…

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