Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-28

• Everything about Java 8 - TechEmpower Blog

  The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. This next iteration of the JDK is currently scheduled for general availability in September 2013.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-22

• maxogden/art-of-node · GitHub

  An introduction to Node.js

• Chart.js | HTML5 Charts for your website.

  Easy, object oriented client side graphs for designers and developers

• airbnb/javascript · GitHub

  Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide() { A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript

• Superhero.js

  Creating, testing and maintaining a large JavaScript code base is not easy — especially since great resources on how to do this are hard to find. This page is a collection of the best articles, videos and presentations we've found on the topic.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-21

• Home - Annotator - Annotating the Web

  The Annotator is an open-source JavaScript library and tool that can be added to any webpage to make it annotatable. Annotations can have comments, tags, users and more. Morever, the Annotator is designed for easy extensibility so its a cinch to add a new feature or behaviour.

• Open source — Government Service Design Manual

  This section presents architectural practice and considerations for using, publishing and contributing to free and open source software (FOSS).

• At Cleveland Museum of Art, the iPad Enhances - NYTimes.com

  Mr. Franklin is standing in front of a 40-foot-wide touch screen that displays greeting-card-size images of all 3,000 objects on display in the museum. When a visitor touches an image, the screen enlarges it, arranges itself near similarly themed objects, and offers information like the location of the actual piece. And by touching a “heart” icon in the corner of the image, the visitor can transfer it from the wall to an iPad (one brought from home or rented at the museum for $5 a day), creating a personal list of favorites.

  From the list of favorites, the user can devise a personalized tour, which can be shared with other users. “It’s very democratic. You can create a tour, and give it a funny name, and other people will follow it through the museum,” Mr. Franklin said. So far, more than 200 visitors have made their own tours, with names like “My new faves by Linda” and “Preston Loves Shadows.”

• jaredhanson/passport · GitHub

  Passport is designed to be a general-purpose, yet simple, modular, and unobtrusive, authentication framework. Passport's sole purpose is to authenticate requests. In being modular, it doesn't force any particular authentication strategy on your application. In being unobtrusive, it doesn't mount routes in your application. The API is simple: you give Passport a request to authenticate, and Passport provides hooks for controlling what occurs when authentication succeeds or fails.

• Formula.js

  Provide a JavaScript implementation of most formula functions supported by Microsoft Excel 2013 and Google Spreadsheets

• Countable.js—live word-counting in JavaScript

  Countable is a JavaScript function to add live paragraph-, word- and character-counting to an HTML element. Countable does not rely on any libraries and is very small in size.

• Home - Recline Data Explorer and Library

  A simple but powerful library for building data applications in pure Javascript and HTML.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-14

• samuelclay/NewsBlur · GitHub

  NewsBlur is a social news reader with intelligence. A new sound of an old instrument.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-12

• Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You - ProPublica

  Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you have.

• cloudhead/http-console · GitHub

  Talking to an HTTP server with curl can be fun, but most of the time it's a PITA. http-console is a simple and intuitive interface for speaking the HTTP protocol.

• High Performance Networking in Google Chrome - igvita.com

  The following is a draft chapter for the upcoming "The Performance of Open Source Applications" (POSA), a sequel to The Architecture of Open Source Applications. POSA is a collection of essays about performance optimization, designing for performance, managing performance as part of a development process, and more.

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