Pie in the Sky (August 2nd, 2013)
Trying something different this week and adding a client/mobile section for client-side things. I thought about adding a JavaScript section, but that'd end up being 99% of the links. JavaScript being the new assembler/vb/perl means it's in everything now.
Cloud
SWAP space in Windows Azure Virtual machines running Linux images - part 1: Enabling a swapfile on a Linux VM hosted on Azure.
Windows Azure Virtual Machines - Stopped doesn't equal stopped and deallocated: How to really avoid getting charged for stopped VMs.
Client/Mobile
Art directed adaptive images with SVG and JavaScript: Because scaling an image isn't always pretty.
Windows 8.1, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap, Underscore, BankersBox, etc.: Using a bunch of JavaScript stuff to make a Win8.1 application.
Sticky: Ever wanted to make an item on the page stick to the top as you scrolled up? That's what Sticky does.
Create a 3D game with Three.js and WebGL: A walk through of creating a basic 3d game.
Arachnid: One of the challenges with single page apps is allowing search engines to crawl them. Arachnid solves this by using PhantomJS for screen scrapping and then serving up those scrapings to the search engine.
Moto X and the sensor driven future: Good piece on sensors and contextual smarts in our devices.
Node.js
Node stream to Mongo: Stream objects to MongoDB.
Node interval stream: Streams that emit data every X seconds.
Windows Azure SDK for Node.js 0.7.12: A new version of the SDK is out.
Debug Node.js applications in Windows Azure Web Sites: Using node-inspector for Azure Web Sites.
Tuneup: Tuneup lets you easily specify the Node.js or npm version to use with your application in Windows Azure Web Sites.
Ruby
Inter-service communication using client certificate authentication: Using client certificates to authenticate to services from Ruby.
Working with PSD files: PSD.rb allows you to work with Photoshop's PSD format.
Misc.
DalekJS: Automated cross-browser testing, now with more Daleks.
Microjs.com: A searchable index of micro frameworks.
A JavaScript editor is spreading to several Microsoft sites: JavaScript/CSS/etc. editing directly in Skydrive is pretty nice.
7 JavaScript basics many developer's aren't using (properly): Some good tips for JavaScript developers.
API Blueprint: A new DSL for easily documenting/creating APIs.
Axiom of choice - the programmers guide: understanding the axiom of choice.
What every hipster should know about functional programming: Apparently I'm not a hipster.
Enjoy!
- Larry