Pie in the Sky (May 30th, 2014)

Not a lot of links this week, but some good ones.

Cloud

• Moving to Microsoft Azure: The experience of moving a blog to Azure.

Client/Mobile

• Xamarin 3: Now with 100% more iOS designer. Arstechnica already has a review up for this version.

• Xamarin forms: Forms that are native across platforms.

• RubyMotion 3.0 sneak peek: A look at the upcoming Android support.

• Introduction to the Ambient Light API: Tracking how much light is present in your environment.

• Designer 'must-reads' #1 - Don't make me think: Revisiting the classic book, 'Don't make me think'.

• Microsoft acquires Capptain: Interesting. I've not used Capptain's solution, but it sounds like it provides a useful service.

.NET

• Mono and Roslyn: I don't remember linking to this, but there's Roslyn for Mono now. To go along with all the other new ASP.NET that work on Mono.

JavaScript/Node.js

• Socket.io 1.0: New engine and everything.

PHP

• HHVM 3.1.0: Latest and greatest.

• PHP fights HHVM and Zephir with PHPNG: Happenings in the PHP space with PHPNG.

Ruby

• Rails 4.1.2.rc1 and 4.0.6.rc1: New release candidates.

• Upgrading to Ruby 2.1: For anyone about to make the jump.

Misc.

• Building your first Grunt plugin: If you're using Grunt, there will come a time when you need to write your own plugin. Might as well learn how to do it now.

• Pre-orders for Flame: Flame being the first Firefox OS developer phone.

• Microsoft and SalesForce partnership: This is one of those things that touches a lot of things. Devices, Office, OneDrive, etc. It'll be interesting to see everything that comes out of this.

• Flutter wireless: Wireless with a 1km range? Nice!

Enjoy!

-Larry