Interesting Snippets from 2014-05-13

• The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js | via @codeship

  A lot of the confusion for newcomers to Node is misunderstanding exactly what it is. The description on nodejs.org definitely doesn’t help. An important thing to realize is that Node is not a webserver. By itself it doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t work like Apache. There is no config file where you point it to you HTML files. If you want it to be a HTTP server, you have to write an HTTP server (with the help of its built-in libraries). Node.js is just another way to execute code on your computer. It is simply a JavaScript runtime.

• dennis714/RE-for-beginners · GitHub

  Reverse Engineering for Beginners Topics discussed: x86, ARM. Topics touched: Oracle RDBMS, Itanium, copy-protection dongles, LD_PRELOAD, stack overflow, ELF, win32 PE file format, x86-64, critical sections, syscalls, TLS, position-independent code (PIC), profile-guided optimization, C++ STL, OpenMP, win32 SEH.

• Quill - An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

  Quill is an open source editor built for the modern web. It is built with an extensible architecture and an expressive API so you can completely customize it for your use case.

• The Bro Network Security Monitor

  While focusing on network security monitoring, Bro provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Bro has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyberinfrastructure. Bro's user community includes major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, and open-science communities

• topcloud/socketcluster · GitHub

  SocketCluster is a WebSocket server cluster (with HTTP long-polling fallback) based on engine.io. Unlike other realtime engines, SocketCluster deploys itself as a cluster in order to make use of all CPUs/cores on a machine/instance - This offers a more consistent performance for users and lets you scale vertically without limits. SocketCluster workers are highly parallelized - Asymptotically speaking, SocketCluster is N times faster than any other available WebSocket server (where N is the number of CPUs/cores available on your machine). SocketCluster was designed to be lightweight and its API is almost identical to Socket.io.

• GitbookIO/gitbook · GitHub

  GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful programming books and exercises using GitHub/Git and Markdown.

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