Pie in the Sky (January 17th, 2014)

Was a bit of a quiet week, but I found a few interesting links. A bunch of stuff happened in the Windows Azure space at least.

Cloud

• Changes to getIdentities(): Some changes to Windows Azure Mobile Services to make getIdentities async.

• Announcing PCI DSS compliance and a bunch of other stuff: There's a couple things that got updated for Windows Azure this week.

• What's new in Windows Azure Mobile Services 1.6.4461: A summary of new stuff and bug fixes.

Client/mobile

• Managing custom data with the HTML5 Dataset API: Learn how about data attributes and the dataset API.

• What's new in Windows Azure Mobile Services SDK 1.1.2: what's new in the SDK bits.

• How to transfer ownership of an iOS app: Because you don't have to do the same thing forever.

JavaScript

• Stop being afraid of promises and be awesome instead: Learn about promises.

• React beginner tutorial: Learn how to implement Go (a board game,) using React.

Node.js

• Node.js and the road ahead: Brief blog post on what's coming up for Node.

• Token-based authentication with Socket.IO: How to improve security.

• Introduction to HTML5 desktop apps with Node-webkit: Learn how to make desktop apps with Node.js.

PHP

• New features in PHP 5.6: Some of the stuff coming for 5.6.

• PHP and Neo4j: An introduction to graph databases.

Ruby

• Support for Ruby 1.9.3 ends on February 23, 2015: Just a friendly reminder. After Feb 23, 2014, you only get security fixes.

• Ruby Instarepl for Light Table: Currently alpha.

Misc.

• List of languages that compile to JS: The list is pretty huge.

• A sublime writing experience: Some packages that make writing longform text in Sublime Text a nicer experience.

• Light Table is open source: Light Table was that kickstarter last year that showed you the impact of your code changes on the fly.

• Using color psychology to create an effective price table: The secrets behind colors.

Enjoy!

- Larry