Interesting Thingys 68 - yield the dog

A frontend centric Interesting Thingys edition.

JavaScript

The JavaScript console API cross browser consoles explained
mgechev/angularjs-style-guide Community-driven set of best practices for AngularJS application development
[JSConfUS 2013] Domenic Denicola: Boom, Promises/A Was Born - YouTube what they are and how they came about

CSS Device Adaptation with @viewport When we need to adjust a device’s browser viewport, the HTML tag is usually our go-to solution. But the viewport meta tag is surprisingly “non-normative”––it’s not a formal W3C spec, much less a web standard.
Flexbox First The Flexbox spec is finally stable, but browser support isn’t there yet.
Flexbox layout isn’t slow - HTML5Rocks Updates messures the performance of the old model versus the new model

Building Web Apps With Yeoman And Polymer - HTML5 Rocks Scaffold your webapps with modern tooling

Using SVG gradients and filters with d3.js | 4waisenkinder How to leverage the powers of gradients and filters to visualize stats
collectiveip/prerender Node server that uses phantomjs to render a javascript-rendered page as HTML. To be used in conjunction with prerender middleware.

Dave Pacheco’s Blog » Node.js in production: runtime log snooping debug messages in production?
StrongLoop | How-to: Heap Snapshots and Handling Node.js Memory Leaks Taking dumps and analyzing them
Continuous Development in Node.js - Pony Foo automate all the things
hij1nx/level-channels A simpler way to selectively stream future or historic changes.

If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy | Dr Dobb’s The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it.

I-Tier - Groupon Engineering Blog Groupon moved their whole App from RoR to Node.js

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