Awesome List Updates on Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2014

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1. Awesome Clojure

Guides

• Clojure Distilled

2. Awesome Machine Learning

R / General-Purpose Machine Learning

• Machine Learning For Hackers (⭐3.7k)

3. Es6 Tools

Gobble plugins / Brunch Plugins

• Traceur: gobble-es6-transpiler (⭐1)

Karma plugins / Brunch Plugins

• Traceur: karma-traceur-preprocessor (⭐13)

Sprockets plugins / Brunch Plugins

• Traceur: sprockets-traceur (⭐25)

Other / Brunch Plugins

• Isparta (⭐645)

4. Awesome Javascript

Loaders

• browserify (⭐15k) - Browser-side require() the node.js way.

5. Nginx Resources

OpenResty

• Building an OpenResty events server (⭐64)

6. Awesome Marionette

Tutorials and articles

• Components with Backbone.js and Marionette.js by Jeremy Fairbank

• From Backbone.js to Marionette.js (Russian) - by Mahnunchik

• Things I Learned from Building a Large Scale Backbone + Marionette Application by Ian Williams

• A Short Primer on Marionette.js

• Pimping Backbone with Marionette by Tom Herold

• Handling Forms with Marionette.js by Al Scott

• Nested Views in Backbone.Marionette by Sam Saccone

Books

• Building Backbone Plugins by Derick Bailey and Jerome Gravel-Niquet

• Backbone.Marionette.js: A Gentle Introduction by David Sulc

• Structuring Backbone Code with RequireJS and Marionette Modules by David Sulc

• Marionette Exposé by Jack Killilea

• Backbone.Marionette.js: A Serious Progression by David Sulc

• Getting Started with Backbone Marionette by Raymundo Armendariz and Arturo Soto

Videos

• Backbone.js with Derick Bailey by Derick Bailey

• Dancing with Marionette - Youtube channel

• Backbone Marionette and Require.js by Daniel Cousineau

• Unsuck Your Backbone by Amy Palamountain

General

• Github repository (⭐7.1k)

• Annotated source

• StackOverflow - Tagged questions

• Yeoman generator for Marionette.js (⭐333)

Examples and boilerplates

• Marionette Require Boilerplate (⭐243)

7. Awesome Backbone

General

• Backbone.js

• Github repository (⭐28k)

• Annotated source

• BackboneConf - Conference about building applications on the web, with a focus on the Backbone.js library

• StackOverflow - Tagged questions

Tutorials and articles

• A pragmatic guide to Backbone.js apps by Julio Cesar Ody

• A Complete Guide for Learning Backbone.js by Mohit Jain

• Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial by Christophe Coenraets - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

• Backbone patterns by Rico Sta. Cruz

• Complex Single Page Application Architecture with Backbone.js by Gur Dotan

• Building large Backbone applications by Victor Savkin

• A Guide to Writing Backbone Apps at Coursera by Pamela Fox

• CloudEdit: A Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails by James Yu - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

• Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server by Spike Brehm

• Using Backbone.js With Require.js by Greg Franko

• Backbone Model Unit Testing with Jasmine by Ken Tabor

• Backbone.js and Socket.io by Jason Strimpel

• Presenter First in Backbone.js by Shawn Andersom

• Websockets for Backbone by Christopher Keefer

• Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

• Boilerplate web app using Backbone.js, Express.js, Node.js, MongoDB by jkat98

• Backbone.js Tips And Patterns by Philip Whisenhunt

• Leveraging Deferreds in Backbone.js by Sam Breed

• Backbone.js for large scale applications - UI architecture by Oren Farhi

• Decorating A Backbone.Model With Features, For A UI Component by Derick Bailey

• Backbone.fwd: Forward Events From One Backbone Object, Through Another by Derick Bailey

• Backbone.View Patterns - Rendering A Collection by Oren Fahri

• Backbone.View Patterns - How & Why Use Subviews by Oren Fahri

• Backbone.View Patterns - The "Render" Method by Oren Fahri

• Building progressively enhanced websites using bulletproof Backbone & CSS transforms by Adrian Zumbrunnen

• Decoupling Backbone Apps From WebSockets by Derick Bailey

• Backbone.js And JavaScript Garbage Collection by Derick Bailey

• Getting familiar with Backbone.js by Pasha Craydon

• Backbone Antipatterns by Ben Teese

• Backbone.js for Absolute Beginners by Adrian Mejia - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

• Building an App with Express and Backbone by Jack Franklin - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8

Books

• Developing Backbone.js Applications by Addy Osmani

• Backbone.js Testing by Ryan Roemer

• Backbone.js Cookbook by Vadim Mirgorod

• Instant Backbone.js Application Development by Thomas Hunter II

• Beginning Backbone.js by James Sugrue

• Backbone.js Blueprints by Andrew Burgess

• Recipes with Backbone by Nick Gauthier and Chris Strom

• Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js by Patrick Mulder

Videos

• Introduction to Backbone.js - Youtube playlist by Joseph Zimmerman

• Backbone App Walkthrough - Youtube playlist by Joseph Zimmerman

• Backbone.js Tutorial - Youtube playlist by Mosh Hamedani

• Backbone-Require-Boilerplate Explained by Greg Franko

• BackboneRails Screencasts - Learn to Build Web Apps Using Backbone + Rails

• JavaScript Application Architecture with Backbone.js by Mathias Schäfer

• An Introduction to Backbone.js by Sid Maestre

• Put Some Backbone.js in your Apps by Sid Maestre

• Evolving Your JavaScript with Backbone.js by K Adam White

Examples and boilerplates

• Backbone Require Boilerplate (⭐614) - A Rad Backbone.js and Require.js Boilerplate Project

• Wine Cellar Sample Application (⭐916) - "Backbone Cellar" is a sample application built with Backbone.js

• Employee Directory (⭐465) - Employee Directory sample application built with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap

• Backbone Contact Manager (⭐65) - Simple Backbone.js example application

• Backbone Boilerplates (⭐490) - Backbone.js stack boilerplates demonstrating integration with Express, Ruby, PHP, Grails and more

Courses

• Anatomy of Backbone.js

• Advanced Backbone Patterns and Techniques

• Connected to the Backbone

• Structuring Your Web Apps via Backbone.js (⭐80)

• Backbone.JS In-Depth and Introduction to Testing with Mocha and Sinon

• Up and Running with Backbone.js

• Application Building Patterns with Backbone.js

8. Tools

CSS

• pleeease

• css3-tool

9. Awesome Android

Database / ORM

• Sugar ORM - Insanely easy way to work with Android Databases.

10. Awesome Cpp

Websites

• C FAQ - C frequently asked questions.

• C++ FAQ - C++ frequently asked questions.

• C++ FQA Lite - C++ frequently questioned answers.

• Guru of the Week - A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter.

11. Awesome Ocaml

Regular Expressions

• Re (⭐232) – a pure OCaml regular expressions library with combinators, supporting several formats (glob, posix, str, etc.).

• ocaml-pcre (⭐30) – bindings to the PCRE library (perl-compatible regular expressions)

Serialization

• sexplib (⭐145) – A S-expression parser and printer

12. Awesome Elixir

Testing

• ex_spec (⭐99) - BDD-like syntax for ExUnit.

13. Awesome Ruby

Analytics

• Impressionist (⭐1.5k) - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views.

API Builder and Discovery

• Version Cake (⭐654) - An unobtrusive way to version APIs in your Rails app.

• versionist (⭐972) - A plugin for versioning Rails based RESTful APIs.

Authorization

• acl9 (⭐854) - Acl9 is a role-based authorization system that provides a concise DSL for securing your Rails application.

Data Visualization

• LazyHighCharts (⭐1k) - A simple and extremely flexible way to use HighCharts from ruby code. Tested on Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and Nanoc, but it should work with others too.

Database Tools

• Seedbank (⭐1.1k) - Seedbank allows you to structure your Rails seed data instead of having it all dumped into one large file.

Date and Time Processing

• ice_cube (⭐2.4k) - A date recurrence library which allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying.

Debugging Tools

• Xray (⭐1.2k) - A development tool that reveals your UI's bones.

Email

• premailer-rails (⭐1.7k) - CSS styled emails without the hassle.

• Roadie (⭐1.3k) - Roadie tries to make sending HTML emails a little less painful by inlining stylesheets and rewriting relative URLs for you inside your emails.

Geolocation

• geoip (⭐715) - Searches a GeoIP database for a given host or IP address, and returns information about the country where the IP address is allocated, and the city, ISP and other information.

• Google Maps for Rails (⭐2.3k) - Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps.

Image Processing

• Phasion (⭐702) - Ruby wrapper around pHash, the perceptual hash library for detecting duplicate multimedia files.

Internationalization

• FastGettext (⭐398) - Ruby internationalization tool with less memory, simple, clean namespace and threadsafe.

• Globalize (⭐2.1k) - Globalize builds on the I18n API in Ruby on Rails to add model translations to ActiveRecord models.

Security

• Metasploit (⭐34k) - World's most used penetration testing software.

• SecureHeaders (⭐3.1k) - Automatically apply several headers that are related to security, including: Content Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), X-Frame-Options (XFO), X-XSS-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Download-Options & X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies.

Social Networking

• Mailboxer (⭐1.6k) - A private message system for Rails applications.

Testing

• Extra
  • Appraisal (⭐1.3k) - Appraisal integrates with bundler and rake to test your library against different versions of dependencies.
  • CQL (⭐25) - CQL is a library for making queries against Cucumber style test suites.
  • cuke_modeler (⭐22) - An modeling library for .feature files that is an abstration layer on top of the gherkin gem, providing a stable base upon which to build other Gherkin related tools.
  • gitarro (⭐15) - Run, retrigger, handle all type and OS-independent tests against your GitHub Pull Requests.
  • Knapsack (⭐514) - Optimal test suite parallelisation across CI nodes for RSpec, Cucumber, Minitest, Spinach and Turnip.
  • mutant (⭐1.9k) - Mutant is a mutation testing tool for Ruby.
  • Parallel Tests (⭐3.4k) - Speedup Test::Unit + RSpec + Cucumber by running parallel on multiple CPUs (or cores).
  • power_assert (⭐1) - Power Assert for Ruby.
  • Ruby-JMeter (⭐749) - A Ruby based DSL for building JMeter test plans.
  • Spring (⭐2.8k) - Preloads your rails environment in the background for faster testing and Rake tasks.
  • timecop (⭐3.4k) - Provides "time travel" and "time freezing" capabilities, making it dead simple to test time-dependent code.
  • Turbo Tests (⭐172) - Run RSpec tests on multiple cores. Like parallel_tests but with incremental summarized output.
  • vcr (⭐5.8k) - Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.
  • Wraith (⭐4.8k) - A responsive screenshot comparison tool.
  • Zapata (⭐413) - Who has time to write tests? This is a revolutionary tool to make them write themselves.

Third-party APIs

• twilio-ruby (⭐1.4k) - A module for using the Twilio REST API and generating valid TwiML.

14. Awesome R

HTML Widgets

• dygraphs (⭐360) - Charting time-series data in R.

15. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Command-line apps

• browser-run (⭐443) - Easily run code in a browser environment.

Packages / Command-line utilities

• ascii-charts (⭐233) - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.

16. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Continuous Integration

• JoliCi (⭐652) - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker.

Table of Contents / Passwords

• Password Compat (⭐2.1k) - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.

• Password Policy (⭐77) - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.

• Password Validator (⭐145) - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.

Table of Contents / Debugging and Profiling

• Barbushin PHP Console (⭐1.3k) - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.

• Tracy (⭐1.7k) - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.

Table of Contents / Numbers

• ByteUnits (⭐163) - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.

Table of Contents / API

• Restler (⭐1.4k) - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.

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