This week with topics from mobile-development, javascript, HTML5 and quantum-physics ..
Mobile Development
- Novocaine - high performance audio processing (record, play) for iOS / Mac OS X
- ‘Show Source’ Bookmarklet - a ‘view source’ bookmarklet for the iPhone/iPad.
HTML5
- Canvas v5 API Gets Path Primitives, Ellipses, Dashed Lines, Hit testing, Text on Path,
- Color input, the Network Information API and Chromium 20
JavaScript
- POW - Algorithmic sunburst generator via CSS, canvas and jQuery.
- Async JavaScript - ‘Recipes for Event-Driven Code’, looks like an interesting ebook.
- toolbox.no.de - toolbox for node.js applications. first website if you’re looking for node.js plugins/modules/etc
- shell.js - Unix shell commands for Node.js
- jake - JavaScript build tool, similar to Make or Rake. Built to work with Node.js.
- Backbone Paginator
- Why node.js streams are awesome
- Lessons learned with CSS Regions and Shadow DOM
- pep.jquery.js - A lightweight plugin for kinetic-drag on mobile/desktop
CSS
- Paperfold CSS - fold divs like paper
Database
- Redis Persistence demystified - everything you need to know about persistence in Redis (and comparison to MySql and SQLite).
Operating Systems
OS X
- OSX for Hackers - lots of useful settings you can enable/disable on the command-line for Mac OS X.
Presentations / Talks / Articles
- iOS Design - ‘a case study’, nice presentation about the design-process for an iOS application.
- 2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030 - interesting article about the future of jobs & industries.
Tools
- split2flac - a tool to split one big AP/FLAC/WAV file into several FLAC/M4A/MP3/OGG/WAV tracks, with tagging, renaming and cover images.
Physics
- No ordinary genius - a 95min documentary about Richard Feynman, available on youtube.
- Einsteins unbemerkte Revolution - german article about ‘Verschränkung’ (entanglement) & ‘Spukhafte Fernwirkung’ (action at distance) in qunatum-physics.