Pie in the Sky (June 27th, 2014)

Cloud

• Trying Redis Caching: Working with Azure Redis Cache.

• MongoDB enterprise: Now available in the Azure store.

• Azure Mobile Services and MongoDB collections: For Node.js back-end code this time.

• June update to Azure Tools for Eclipse: Also some Zulu and SDK stuff in there.

• How to get notifications from an Azure Web Site: Using Zapier

• The joy and hard work of Machine Learning: About Azure's upcoming Machine Learning offering.

Client/Mobile

• Azure Notification Hub and PhoneGap: Push notifications to PhoneGap apps.

• Creating an iOS app in Xamarin: A credit card reader app.

• Material design: Google's new design language is pretty nifty.

• Android tutorials for beginners: Good if you're just starting out.

• Using the HTML5 gamepad API: Pretty soon, we're just going to write everything as HTML5 + JS.

Node.js

• OpenSSL and breaking UTF-8 changes: Fixed in Node v0.8.27 and v0.10.29.

• Develop a Node.js app with Docker: Using Docker as a replacement for Vagrant.

Ruby

• App server arena: A comparison of popular Ruby application servers.

• Lotus: A new Ruby web framework.

• Rails 4.1.2RC3 and 4.0.6RC3 released: New release candidates.

Misc.

• JS task runner comparison: Grunt, Gulp, Cake, and Broccoli.

• Setup Swift REPL: For command-line junkies.

• IE developer channel: For those that like running beta bits.

• Visualizing Algorithms: A great read, along with some excellent visualizations.

• Open XML SDK: The folks at MS Open Tech have released this under the Apache 2.0 license.

• The death of map-reduce at Google: Some thoughts on how map-reduce was a useful stepping stone into distributed data processing

• UNIX Wildcards gone wild: That's just pretty awesome.