Interesting Snippets from 2014-09-19

• Introducing Tweet-a-Program—Wolfram Blog

  In the Wolfram Language a little code can go a long way. And to use that fact to let everyone have some fun, today we’re introducing Tweet-a-Program.

• Home — Memory Management Reference 4.0 documentation

  This is a resource for programmers and computer scientists interested in memory management and garbage collection.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-09-18

• TCP Tune

  These notes are intended to help users and system administrators maximize TCP/IP performance on their computer systems. They summarize all of the end-system (computer system) network tuning issues including a tutorial on TCP tuning, easy configuration checks for non-experts, and a repository of operating system specific instructions for getting the best possible network performance on these platforms

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-09-13

• hello.js - Javascript API for OAuth2 authentication and REST services

  A client-side Javascript SDK for authenticating with OAuth2 (and OAuth1 with a oauth proxy) web services and querying their REST API's. HelloJS standardizes paths and responses to common API's like Google Data Services, Facebook Graph and Windows Live Connect.

• DataCollection.js

  Inspired by modern Object Relational Managers, DataCollection.js is a JavaScript library for storage, filtration, manipulation and accession of large datasets. It is ideal for working with data returned from RESTful API endpoints.

• Making MySQL Better at GitHub · GitHub

  Our MySQL database infrastructure dramatically affects the performance of GitHub.com. Here's a look at how our infrastructure team seamlessly conducted a major MySQL improvement last August and made GitHub even faster.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-09-12

• Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science

  A book that covers a fair bit of ground on Theoretical Computer Science by Margaret M. Fleck

• stefanjudis/perf-tooling · GitHub

  Perf Tooling is a shared resource to keep track of new and existant performance tools.

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Interesting Snippets from 2014-09-02

• Chartist - Simple responsive charts

  The following facts should give you an overview why to choose Chartists as your front-end chart generator: Simple handling while using convention over configuration Great flexibility while using clear separation of concerns (Style with CSS & control with JS) Usage of SVG (Yes! SVG is the future of illustration in web!) Fully responsive and DPI independent Responsive configuration with media queries Fully built and customizable with SASS

• C3.js | D3-based reusable chart library

  C3 makes it easy to generate D3-based charts by wrapping the code required to construct the entire chart. We don't need to write D3 code any more.

• rxin/db-readings · GitHub

  A list of papers essential to understanding databases and building new data systems.

• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

  his book will introduce you to D3, a JavaScript-based tool for loading data into a web page and generating visuals from that data. I assume that you have little or no programming experience. Or, perhaps you have programmed before, but D3 and data visualization are bringing you to JavaScript for the first time, and you’ve heard bad things about it. Well, JavaScript is a little weird, but it’s not as bad as you’ve heard, and everything is going to be all right. Please sit down and make yourself comfortable.

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