Pie in the Sky (July 26th, 2012)
Happy almost-forgot-to-post Friday! Here's a list of links for your weekend reading:
Cloud
- A comparative analysis of 5 large cloud IaaS providers: Comparisions of IaaS performance.
Mobile
PhoneGap 3.0 released: For all the mobile developers.
Yeoman and Phonegap/Cordova: Speaking of PhoneGap, here's how to use Yeoman, Grunt, and Bower with Cordova.
All the important and surprising trends in mobile web browsing, in seven charts: Some charts on mobile web browsing based on Adobe's State of Mobile Benchmark. Interesting to see the breakdown of usage between phone/tablet by region.
Node.js
Getting started with nodebots: Node.js & robots.
Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi Reboot: More Node.js + hardware goodness.
New and Improved Node.js debugger: Updates to Node-inspector.
PHP
- Enabling ZendGuard Extension in Windows Azure Web Sites: Learn how to setup ZendGuard for PHP websites hosted in Windows Azure Web Sites.
Ruby
Rails 3.2.14 released: If you're still on 3.2, might want to grab this. Also, the next release (3.2.15) will be the last 3.2 bug fix release.
Streaming with Rails 4: Some examples of using streaming in a Rails application.
Misc.
Flynn: Open source PaaS powered by Docker: The Flynn project aims to provide a Heroku-like PaaS for anyone in their own data centers. The project is currently seeking funding.
Cross-fading images with AngularJS How to do a nice fade between images with AngularJS.
Integration testing your Ember.js app with QUnit and Karma: Screencast on getting started testing Ember apps.
Karma runner for Brackets: If you're using Brackets.io, this plugin allows you to run karma tests from within Brackets.
grunt-prompt: Interactive prompts for grunt tasks.
Cloud-to-butt: Sometimes you just get burned out on a buzzword and want to have a laugh.
Enjoy!
- Larry