We got some fun games and exiting new releases this week, read on …

JavaScript

• yields/k · GitHub keyboard event dispatcher
• Chart.js | HTML5 Charts for your website. Easy, object orientated client side graphs for designers and developers
• shichuan/javascript-patterns · GitHub repo with JavaScript Patterns
• Superhero.js This page is a collection of the best articles, videos and presentations we’ve found on the topic.

CSS

• Tim Pietrusky : Use pseudo-elements on replaced elements Use after on empty elements

HTML5

• Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2) — PaulStamatiou.com develop a site that looks good verywhere
• Shadow DOM 301: Advanced Concepts more on the shadow dom

Web Development

• Inside the New York Times’ web redesign | The Verge NO MORE PAGINATION OR CLICKING “SINGLE-PAGE VIEW” - ACTIVE AND PASSIVE PERSONALIZATION
• Ian MacLeod : Pagination: You’re (Probably) Doing It Wrong. Don’t paginate on row offset. Find a stable value to paginate on, like an item’s date. Always deduplicate list items on the client side. Never trust your server to know exactly what the user is looking at.
• Bulletproof Demos Record and playback a session in google chrome
• Future of Firefox DevTools // by Paul Rouget 10 days ago, I asked in various channels about what web developers would like to see in the Firefox DevTools. I was impressed by the amount of answers we got (especially from HackerNews and Twitter). We computed and prioritized all these inputs. Then the DevTools team met, and spent a week hacking on these different requests.
• InterNations/antwort Beautiful responsive email templates with code as beautiful as email templates can be
• bradbirdsall/Swipe · GitHub Swipe is the most accurate touch slider.
• Hardware-Accelerated Page Transitions for Mobile Web Apps How to speed up your mobile Web Apps
• Writing Testable Frontend Javascript Part 1 – Anti-patterns and their fixes | Shane Tomlinson How to get a testable frontend code base…

Mobile Webdevelopment

• Building “Robust” PhoneGap Applications What’s robust?

Ruby

• Understanding method lookup in Ruby 2.0 - Tech.Pro To understand method lookup it is imperative to master the class hierarchy in Ruby.

Node.js

• caolan/forms · GitHub An easy way to create, parse and validate forms in node.js
• hij1nx/levelweb · GitHub A web based interface for leveldb, with some other neat stuff.
• 3rd-Eden/versions · GitHub Versions, A small module for creating a flexible CDN application
• Node v0.10.1 (Stable) First node bug fix release is here

Databases

• MongoDB 2.4 Released Highlights of MongoDB 2.4 include: Hash-based Sharding Capped Arrays Text Search (Beta) Geospatial Enhancements Faster Counts Working Set Analyzer V8 JavaScript engine Security
• Riak CS is Now Open Source | Basho Riak CS features: Highly available, fault-tolerant storage Large object support S3-compatible API and authentication Multi-tenancy and per-user reporting Simple operational model for adding capacity Robust stats for monitoring and metrics

Git

• Ben Simpson : git rebase –autosquash How to autosquash commits

Tools

• airbnb/chronos · GitHub Fault tolerant job scheduler that handles dependencies and iso8601 based schedules.

Reading

• Checkboxes that kill your product interesting options can ruin your website

Fun

• First-Person Tetris Nice!
• Chrome World Wide Maze Any website can be a maze…

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