Pie in the Sky (July 11th, 2014)

Here's some links for your weekend reading.

Cloud

• Microsoft, Google, and Docker collaboration: To support new open source projects on Azure.

• Wolfram programming cloud: It's live.

Client\mobile

• Become acquainted with SVG images: An introduction to SVG.

• Using SVG stroke attributes: More SVG.

• Server-side device detection: Figuring out what the client is, from the server.

• Kouto Swiss: A CSS toolbox for Stylus

Node.js

• next-update: A utility to test if a module's dependencies can be updated to the latest version.

• jsonapitest: A JSON driven test runner for REST APIs.

• current-processes: A library to get a snapshot of the currently running process.

• Passwordless: Token based authentication for Express & Node.js.

Ruby

• Rails 3.2.19, 4.0.7, and 4.1.3 released - Latest rails updates. Except then 4.0.8 and 4.1.4 were pushed out to fix a regression.

Misc.

• brackets-regex-diagram: If you're using Brackets.io, this is a neat extension that will generate diagrams for your regular expressions.

• Create a static Ghost blog: Buster is a static site generator for the Ghost blogging software.

• GeoJson: A JSON format for encoding geographic data.

• Some useful sublime packages: GitGutter and DocBlockr, where have you been all my life?

• A first look at 0xDBE: No, my site didn't just throw an obscure error at you. 0xDBE is a new database management system for a wide range of SQL databases.

• Grunt, Gulp, or npm: A comparison of build tools.

• Some useful command-line/Bash tricks: I'm going to end up using !! a lot.

• Don't be scared of functional programming: Seriously.

Enjoy!

- Larry