Interesting Snippets from 2013-01-31

• Internet 2012 in numbers

  There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What’s the most popular web browser? How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we’ll answer for you.

• Databases: A Series of Tubes

  Database technologies don't map into a terribly clean taxonomy, with a range of architectures and intended applications. This is a neat way of connecting together entities that share characteristics with other entities, and can also have multiple charcteristics themselves. The section from SkySQL to Oracle Exalytics, reminiscent of the District Line / Circle Line / Metropolitain line overlap, is a great way of representing how the ways these databases are both similar and different.

[/snippets] permanent link

Interesting Snippets from 2013-01-28

• Vaurien, the Chaos TCP Proxy — Vaurien 1.5 documentation

  Vaurien is basically a Chaos Monkey for your TCP connections. Vaurien acts as a proxy between your application and any backend. You can use it in your functional tests or even on a real deployment through the command-line.

[/snippets] permanent link

Interesting Snippets from 2013-01-25

• Parsley.js

  Javascript forms validation. Powerful, UX aware & Dead simple. Never write a single javascript line anymore to validate your forms FrontEnd. Parsley will do that for you and do it right, thanks to its powerful DOM-API !

• SpreadJS Alpha has landed - Wijmo

  Based on HTML5, jQuery, and CSS3, SpreadJS brings all the data visualization and calculation features into your web applications. Create calculators, dynamic interactive dashboards, rich colorful reports, and much more! The rich JavaScript API for SpreadJS provides a complete object model for the spreadsheet document, and a rich set of user interface events which your application can handle to customize the user experience. SpreadJS is designed to provide an Excel-like user interface for spreadsheet navigation, editing, formula calculation, column/row resizing, range drag-drop and drag-fill, and other powerful spreadsheet UI elements such as table sorting and filtering.

[/snippets] permanent link

Interesting Snippets from 2013-01-19

• Using Web Workers to Speed-Up Your JavaScript Applications

  Web Workers provide a facility for creating new threads for executing your JavaScript code in. Effectively creating a multi-threaded architecture in which the browser can execute multiple tasks at once. Creating new threads for handling large tasks allows you to ensure that your app stays responsive and doesn’t freeze up.

• 50 JavaScript Libraries for Charts and Graphs | TechSlides

  How are you visualizing data in JavaScript? What is your favorite library for creating charts and graphs with JavaScript?

[/snippets] permanent link

Interesting Snippets from 2013-01-18

• Aaron Swartz | The Economist

  SMALL, dark, cluttered places were important in the life of Aaron Swartz. His days were spent hunched in his bedroom over his MacBook Pro, his short-sighted eyes nearly grazing the screen (why, he asked himself, weren’t laptop screens at eye level?), in a litter of snaking cables and hard drives. In the heady days of 2005 when he was developing Reddit, now the web’s most popular bulletin board, he and his three co-founders shared a house in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he slept in a cupboard. And it was in a cupboard—an unlocked wiring cupboard, where a homeless man kept stuff—that in November 2010 he surreptitiously placed a laptop, hidden under a box, and plugged it directly into the computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[/snippets] permanent link