This week with highlights from JavaScript, HTML5, Ruby, …

GIT

• Git website has a new design

Ruby

• Multiple Ruby Version Support on Heroku
• Five common Rails mistakes - Mike Perham
• How to get 4x the performance out of Heroku with Unicorn

HTML5

• Polyfills for the Pragmatist
• Beyond HTML5: Device API’s & PhoneGap with Brian Leroux’
• BBC News - Coding the future: HTML5 takes the internet by storm

Javascript

• Better code optimization decisions for V8
• adobe / brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Physijs - a physics engine for three.js, check out the demos
• Cueppoint.JS - A plugin for adding cue-points and subtitles to HTML5 Video
• New Draft Specification for ES.next (Ecma-262 Edition 6)
• Proxies and Frozen objects
• Dynamo JS - kind of irritating

CSS

• Viewport Sized Typography | CSS-Tricks
• Making a move with CSS3 animations - Dev.Opera

Linux

• E4RAT - Improving Startup Times by Physical Block Reallocation

Search

• SwiftType - Let’s you integrate an external search to your website. The demo video looks promising.

Security

• How To Safely Store A Password

Productivity

• The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as productive (or more) than Ruby/Rails.

Videos / Talks

• Node.js in Context with Jason Hoffman of Joyent
• JavaScript Primitive Types vs Reference Types

Fun

• Recursive Drawing