Interesting Snippets from 2013-04-28

• dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library

  dygraphs is an open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-04-26

• Brython

  Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web. As such, it is a Python 3 implementation (you can take it for a test drive through a web console), adapted to the HTML5 environment, that is to say with an interface to the DOM objects and events

• BitTorrent Labs

  BitTorrent Sync Automatically sync files via secure, distributed technology.

• Qualys SSL Labs - Projects / SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices

  Our aim here is to provide clear and concise instructions to help overworked administrators and programmers spend the minimum time possible to obtain a secure site or web application. In pursue of clarity, we sacrifice completeness, foregoing certain advanced topics. The focus is on advice that is practical and easy to understand. For those interested in advanced topics, we provide references at the end of the guide.

• Crocodoc

  There are many different process management solutions out there to choose from. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the more popular options and point out the good, the bad, and the ugly of each.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-04-24

• Introduction | Breeze.js

  Breeze is a JavaScript library that helps you manage data in rich client applications. If you store data in a database, query and save those data as complex object graphs, and share these graphs across multiple screens of your JavaScript client, Breeze is for you.

• McPants/jquery.shapeshift · GitHub

  Inspired heavily by the jQuery Masonry plugin, Shapeshift is a plugin which will dynamically arrange a collection of elements into a column grid system similar to Pinterest. What sets it apart is the ability to drag and drop items within the grid while still maintaining a logical index position for each item. This allows for the grid to be rendered exactly the same every time Shapeshift is used, as long as the child elements are in the correct order.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-04-16

• Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage

  Highcharts is a charting library written in pure HTML5/JavaScript, offering intuitive, interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types.

• jsoma/tabletop · GitHub

  Tabletop.js takes a Google Spreadsheet and makes it easily accessible through JavaScript. With zero dependencies!

• Squel.js - SQL query string builder for Javascript

  lightweight Javascript library for building SQL query strings

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-04-15

• I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

  Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web.

• panzi/SocialSharePrivacy · GitHub

  Social Share Privacy is a jQuery plugin that lets you add social share buttons to your website that don't allow the social sites to track your users. The buttons are first disabled and a user needs to click them to enable them. So in order to e.g. like a site on facebook with these social share buttons a user needs to click two times. But in return for this extra click a user can only be tracked be this third party sites when he decides to enable the buttons. Using the settings menu a user can also permanently enable a social share button.

• shareNice - Awesome URL Sharing Service

  Our goal is to provide an ethical social sharing widget. We want your users to be able to share your web pages with their friends through social networking sites without having to give any information away to money-making third parties.

• The Beauty and Joy of Computing

  The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) is an introductory computer science curriculum developed at the University of California, Berkeley, intended for non-CS majors at the high school junior through undergraduate freshman level. It was one of the five initial pilot programs for the AP CS Principles course being developed by the College Board and the National Science Foundation. We offer it as CS 10 at Berkeley.

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