Pie in the Sky (April 26, 2013)
It's been an odd week where I've been working on random things. Trying my hand at single page applications with Windows Azure Mobile and some of the newer JavaScript frameworks. Might have something to post about it next week. For now, here's some links for your weekend reading:
Cloud
- Penny pinching in the cloud: How to run a two day virtual conference for $10: How to run a virtual conference using a bunch of different technologies, tied together with the cloud.
- Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK: New stuff for Windows Azure including updates to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, and (my favorite) a Windows Azure SDK for Ruby developers.
Games
- Building a HTML5 game with Phaser: Phaser is a TypeScript framework for creating JavaScript/HTML5 games. This article goes over creating a basic game using Phaser.
- Make your own games by learning JavaScript programming: Making games is always a great way to learn a programming language.
- The concepts of WebGL: An introduction to the basic concepts.
Mobile
- Authentication with iOS and Windows Azure Mobile Services: Working with the mobile services authentication provider from iOS.
Node.js
- Node 0.10.5 released: Another week, another Node.js release.
- Using Active Directory Federation Services to authenticate/authorize Node.js apps in Windows Azure: If you use Active Directory and Node, chances are you might be interested in this article.
Troubleshooting
- traceGL: Allows you to see your JavaScript code flow. Looks pretty awesome from the video.
Misc.
- AngularJS: Rendering feeds: Part three of creating a feed reader in AngularJS.
- Code organization in large AngularJS and JavaScript applications: Because nobody likes working on an app that keeps all the files in the application root directory.
- Accordion: Probably the best use of responsive design that I’ve ever seen.
- Make your UI more responsive with HTML5 Web Workers: Handling background or long running tasks on a different thread.
- What Breeze can do for you: Breeze.js is a client-side JavaScript library for working with Data.
- Microsoft celebrates one year anniversary of its investment in open standards and open source: Happy Birthday!
Enjoy!
- Larry