Awesome List Updates on Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2015

19 awesome lists updated this week.

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1. Awesome Backbone

Tutorials and articles

• Why Backbone.js and ES6 Classes Don't Mix by Ben McCormick

2. Awesome Erlang

ORM and Datamapping

• pgsql_migration (⭐19) – PostgreSQL migrations for Erlang.

Text and Numbers

• qsp (⭐19) - Enhanced query string parser for Erlang.

3. Awesome D

Data serialization / JSON

• painlessjson (⭐22) - Convert between D types and std.json.

4. Awesome Coldfusion

Tools

• Unofficial Updater - A utility that helps install ColdFusion hotfixes

5. Awesome Machine Learning

JavaScript / Misc

• regression-js (⭐939) - A javascript library containing a collection of least squares fitting methods for finding a trend in a set of data.

Python / Misc Scripts / iPython Notebooks / Codebases

• GreatCircle (⭐79) - Library for calculating great circle distance.

6. Awesome Polymer

General resources

• Official Site

• Blog

• Google+ Profile

• Github

Polymer Communities

• StackOverflow

• GoogleGroup

• Twitter

• Google+ Community

7. Htaccess

Rewrite and Redirection / Remove Trailing Slash

Remove Trailing Slash

This snippet will redirect paths ending in slashes to their non-slash-terminated counterparts (except for actual directories), e.g. http://www.example.com/blog/ to http://www.example.com/blog. This is important for SEO, since it’s recommended to have a canonical URL for every page.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]

Source

8. Awesome Lua

Resources / Scriptable by Lua

• KoReader (⭐12k) - An ebook reader application supports PDF, DJVU, EPUB, FB2 and much more, running on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices.

9. Es6 Tools

Code generation / Brunch Plugins

• generator-es6-babel (⭐9) - Yeoman generator for Babel apps

10. Awesome Answers

Compilers

• Compilers: What is a supercompiler?

Functional Programming

• Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?

• Why don't monads violate the purely functional nature of languages?

• What is a sum type?

Miscellaneous / Ruby

• Can I parse XHTML with Regex?

11. Awesome Ruby

Data Visualization

• GeoPattern (⭐1.3k) - Create beautiful generative geometric background images from a string.

Database Tools

• Lol DBA (⭐1.6k) - Scan your models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed.

Email

• Sup (⭐894) - A curses threads-with-tags style email client.

Error Handling

• Exception Handler (⭐507) - Custom error pages.

HTML/XML Parsing

• Ox (⭐899) - A fast XML parser and Object marshaller.

Performance Monitoring

• Instrumental (⭐58) - Measure your application in real time with Instrumental.

RSS

• Stringer (⭐3.8k) - A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

Static Site Generation

• webgen - webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator.

Third-party APIs

• Slack ruby gem (⭐243) - A Ruby wrapper for the Slack API.

Web Frameworks

• Scorched - Light-weight, inheritable and composable web framework, inspired by Sinatra.

12. Awesome Elixir

ORM and Datamapping

• redo (⭐19) - Heroku's pipelining redis client for erlang.

• tirexs (⭐429) - An Elixir flavored DSL for building JSON based requests to Elasticsearch engine.

Testing

• cobertura_cover (⭐12) - Writes a coverage.xml from mix test --cover file compatible with Jenkins' Cobertura plugin.

13. BEM Resources

Repos, CodePens and Things / Repos

• WordPress BEM Menu (⭐139)

14. Awesome AutoHotkey

Interpreter / Web

• IronAHK (⭐389) - Cross platform .NET rewrite - unfinished.

15. Awesome Cpp

Image Processing

• Video++ (⭐718) - A C++14 high performance video and image processing library. [MIT]

Inter-process communication

• WAMP - Provides RPC and pub/sub messaging patterns. (various implementations, various languages)

JSON

• ujson - µjson is a a small, C++11, UTF-8, JSON library. [MIT]

Math

• QuantLib (⭐5.2k) - A free/open-source library for quantitative finance. [Modified BSD] website

Integrated Development Environment

• color_coded (⭐871) - A vim plugin for libclang-based highlighting. [MIT]

16. Awesome Android Ui

List / Grid

• Name: RecyclerView-MultipleViewTypesAdapter (⭐415)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

Dialog

• Name: DialogPlus (⭐5k)

  License: Apache License V2

  Demo:

Other

• Name: SimpleFingerGestures (⭐315)

  License: Apache License v2 (⭐315)

  Demo:

17. Awesome Courses

Courses / CS Theory

• 6.045 Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science MIT
  • This course provides a challenging introduction to some of the central ideas of theoretical computer science. Beginning in antiquity, the course will progress through finite automata, circuits and decision trees, Turing machines and computability, efficient algorithms and reducibility, the P versus NP problem, NP-completeness, the power of randomness, cryptography and one-way functions, computational learning theory, and quantum computing. It examines the classes of problems that can and cannot be solved by various kinds of machines. It tries to explain the key differences between computational models that affect their power.
  • Syllabus
  • Lecture Notes
  • Lecture Videos

18. Awesome Json

Binary Serialization

• PSON (⭐459) - Protocol JSON, super efficient binary serialization format.

Command-line tools

• jarg - Shorthand JSON and form encoding syntax in the shell.

Data generation

• jsonymize (⭐17) - Reads data from standard input, anonymizes, then writes to standard output.

• dyson (⭐835) - Server for dynamic, fake JSON. (node.js)

Libraries

• moshi (⭐9.5k) - A modern JSON library for Android and Java.

Online tools

• JSON Selector Generator - A simple GUI for generating the selectors to access.

Services

• jsonpad - a simple JSON storage platform.

Supersets

• μson (⭐69) (uson) - a shorthand for JSON.

Transformations

• Pinch (⭐27) - String.replace for JavaScript objects. (Javascript)

• jsontl (⭐7) - allow transformation using a JSON-based transformation language. (node.js)

JSON Schema Tools

• Docson (⭐491) - Documentation for your types.

19. Inspire

Collaborate / Working with a team? These links are for you.

• Cloud9 - An awesome, zen way to work with others in the cloud.

• Gist - Share code and text with others fast. Like a mini repository.

Testing / Before you launch, these are good tools to make sure your site is ready for stardom.

• CodePen - A free web editor in your browser.

Good Reads / Need something to read in your spare time?

• A List Apart - Guest bloggers and full books on topics from coding to business practices.

• GoodUI - It's definitely not bad.

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