Pie in the Sky (February 21st, 2014)

Not a lot of links this week, though I do have one for making a Flappy Bird clone. :) 

Cloud

• Windows Azure updates: New features, new partnership, and updates to Azure services

Client/Mobile

• How to make a Flappy Bird in HTML5 with Phaser: In case you haven't gotten over your Flappy Bird withdrawal yet

• Distributed automated browser testing with Selenium and BrowserStack: Learn a bit about testing your front-end with browser automation

Hardware

• Spark: An Arduino compatible development board, with built-in WiFi and a backing cloud service

• Service assisted communication for connected devices: Some concerns about hardware attached to the internet and how to potentially address these concerns

Node.js

• Flightplan: A library for deployment or sysadmin tasks.

Ruby

• Rails 4.1.0 release candidate 1: For those on the bleeding edge

• Rails 3.2.17, 4.0.3 and 4.1.0.beta 2: Security fixes

Misc.

• Monads in JavaScript: example monads in TypeScript/JavaScript

• Random user generator: Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people

• D3 and React - the future of charting components?: I haven't tried React, but D3 is pretty awesome

 

Thanks!

-Larry