Interesting Snippets from 2015-09-29

• lorenzofox3/lrStickyHeader · GitHub

  make table headers sticky

• js-sequence-diagrams by bramp

  A simple javascript library to turn text into vector UML sequence diagrams. Heavily inspired by websequencediagrams.com, who offer a serverside solution. We use Jison to parse the text, and Raphaël to draw the image.

• flowchart.js

  Draws simple SVG flow chart diagrams from textual representation of the diagram

• slevithan/xregexp · GitHub

  XRegExp provides augmented (and extensible) JavaScript regular expressions. You get new modern syntax and flags beyond what browsers support natively. XRegExp is also a regex utility belt with tools to make your client-side grepping and parsing easier, while freeing you from worrying about pesky aspects of JavaScript regexes

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-09-10

• Measuring JavaScript Functions' Performance

  The High Resolution Time API offers a function, named now() that returns a DOMHighResTimeStamp object. It’s a floating point number that reflects the current time in milliseconds accurate to a thousandth of a millisecond. Individually, the number doesn’t add much value to your analysis, but a difference between two such numbers gives an accurate description of how much time has passed.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-09-09

• itpol/linux-workstation-security.md at master · lfit/itpol · GitHub

  This document is aimed at teams of systems administrators who use Linux workstations to access and manage your project's IT infrastructure.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-09-02

• algebra.js by nicolewhite

  Build, display, and solve algebraic equations in JavaScript.

• fent/randexp.js @ GitHub

  Create random strings that match a given regular expression.

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Interesting Snippets from 2015-09-01

• How security flaws work: Buffer overflows | Ars Technica UK

  At its core, the buffer overflow is an astonishingly simple bug that results from a common practice. Computer programs frequently operate on chunks of data that are read from a file, from the network, or even from the keyboard. Programs allocate finite-sized blocks of memory—buffers—to store this data as they work on it. A buffer overflow happens when more data is written to or read from a buffer than the buffer can hold.

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