Interesting Snippets from 2014-01-31

• Graphics Programming Black Book | Dr Dobb's

  Michael Abrash's classic Graphics Programming Black Book is a compilation of Michael's writings on assembly language and graphics programming (including from his "Graphics Programming" column in Dr. Dobb's Journal).

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-01-27

• Image Cutter - Joust Multimedia

  Image Cutter is a javascript plug-in that creates a user-interface for cropping images. It is free, open, flexible, easy-to-use, cross-browser friendly, touch friendly, and has no dependencies.

• drop

  Drop is a Javascript and CSS library for creating dropdowns and other popups attached to elements on the page. Drop uses Tether.js to efficiently position its elements.

• Firebase - Build Realtime Apps

  A powerful API to store and sync data in realtime.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-01-20

• Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

  Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-01-17

• Schema-Inspector - A powerful tool to validate and sanitize JS objects

  Schema-Inspector is a powerful tool to sanitize and validate JS objects. It's disigned to work both client-side and server-side and to be scalable with allowing asynchronous and synchronous calls.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-01-03

• Distributed systems for fun and profit

  In this text I've tried to provide a more accessible introduction to distributed systems. To me, that means two things: introducing the key concepts that you will need in order to have a good time reading more serious texts, and providing a narrative that covers things in enough detail that you get a gist of what's going on without getting stuck on details.

• 45 Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices | Flippin' Awesome

  In this article, I’ll share a set of JavaScript tips, tricks and best practices that should be known by all JavaScript developers regardless of their browser/engine or the SSJS (Server Side JavaScript) interpreter.

• JavaScript Patterns

  A JavaScript pattern and antipattern collection that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, jQuery plugin patterns, design patterns, general patterns, literals and constructor patterns, object creation patterns, code reuse patterns, DOM and browser patterns

• josdejong/mathjs · GitHub

  Math.js is an extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js. It features a flexible expression parser and offers an integrated solution to work with numbers, big numbers, complex numbers, units, and matrices.

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