Awesome List Updates on Nov 09 - Nov 15, 2015

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1. Nginx Resources

Talks

• NGINX Conference 2015 Videos

2. Awesome Rails Gem

Admin Panel / Omniauth

• administrate (⭐5.5k) - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

3. Awesome Canvas

Libraries / To draw using canvas

• Akihabara is HTML5 games library for making pixel based games using Javascript and the canvas tag.

• ChemDoodle is an open source chemistry and chem-informatics toolkit where canvas is being used to solve common chemistry related tasks, displaying the molecules in a variety of different ways.

• iio.js (⭐457) - A javascript library that speeds the creation and deployment of HTML5 Canvas applications

• Paper.js (⭐14k) - Scriptographer ported to JavaScript and the browser, using HTML5 Canvas.

• Pixi.js - Super fast HTML 5 2D rendering engine that uses webGL with canvas fallback

• Sketch (⭐4.1k) - Cross-Platform JavaScript Creative Coding Framework

4. Awesome Talks

Cognitive Development

• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address by Steve Jobs [15:04]

5. Awesome Research

Keep You Computer Awake / LaTeX

• Caffeine (Mac): As simple as a single click.

• Amphetamine (Mac): More configurations involved and more intelligent.

Pacifier / HTML+CSS+JS

• Rainy Mood(iOS, Android, Web): rainy day rainy mood, simple but with excellent white noise; a new beautiful soundtrack each day

• Noizio(iOS, Mac): a handy white noise tool that stays in your Mac status bar.

• Soundrown(Web): free mixing of multiple tracks

• Muji Sleep(iOS, Android)

• A Soft Murmur(Web): free mixing of multiple tracks; simple UI; Timer provided; Meander available

• Rainy Cafe(Web): not much to say just a combination of rainy mood and coffitivity

• Sleep Pillow(iOS, Mac): click and play style preloaded scenes; easy to use; beautiful design

• TaoMix (Android): sound mixings to concentrate

• Calm(iOS, Android, Web): to help you calming down

• Raining(iOS, Android, Web): raining and thunder

Forums and Q&A's / HTML+CSS+JS

• Physics.StackExchange

Use Licenses / HTML+CSS+JS

• Choose a License which helps you decide which license to use through several steps.

• Guokr Badge (⭐23): Green CC License badges. (Documentation is in Chinese.)

More / HTML+CSS+JS

• QR Code Generator: Adding a QR code to your poster can help you get more audience.

• SHIELDS.io: Make a beautiful badge by yourself.

6. Awesome Github

Resources for those already familiar with GitHub

• Blocks - This is a simple viewer for code examples hosted on GitHub Gist. (Introduction is here)

• Block Builder - Quickly create, edit, and fork D3.js examples

Novel uses of GitHub

• Gitron - A web game about GitHub based on Tron movies.

7. Awesome Cpp

CLI

• docopt.cpp (⭐1k) - A library to generate option parser from docstring. [MIT/Boost]

8. Awesome Linux Containers

Another Information Sources / Technologies for security

• doger.io
  This page is an attempt to document the ins and outs of containers on Linux. This is not just restricted to programmers looking to implement containers or use container like features in their own code but also Sysadmins and Users who want to get more of a handle on how containers work 'under the hood'.

9. Awesome Selenium

Tools / Java

• Serenity - It is an open source library for writing better quality automated acceptance tests faster. (Formerly Thucydides).

10. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Vadim Demedes (⭐2) - Node.js addict.

• Raymond Clanan (⭐0) - Freelance full stack developer at Utopian Concept LLC.

11. Awesome Ruby

Admin Interface

• Administrate (⭐5.9k) - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard, by Thoughtbot.

API Builder and Discovery

• Her (⭐2k) - an ORM that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. Designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.

CLI Utilities

• Pastel (⭐634) - Terminal output styling with intuitive and clean API.

Code Analysis and Metrics

• Pippi (⭐287) - A utility for finding suboptimal Ruby class API usage, focused on runtime analysis.

Database Tools

• Rails DB (⭐1.5k) - Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner.

Natural Language Processing

• Parslet - A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion.

• Treetop (⭐304) - PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) parser.

Queues and Messaging

• Bunny (⭐1.4k) - Bunny is a popular, easy to use, well-maintained Ruby client for RabbitMQ (3.3+).

• March Hare (⭐97) - Idiomatic, fast and well-maintained JRuby client for RabbitMQ.

Search

• elastics (⭐101) - Simple ElasticSearch client with support for migrations and ActiveRecord integration.

12. Awesome Flexbox

Other Interesting Articles / Polyfills

• Flexbox For Interfaces All The Way: Tracks Case Study

13. Awesome Jvm

Load tools

• Gatling - Asynchronous non-blocking scenario driven load testing tool for testing HTTP servers.

• wrk2 (⭐3.6k) - A constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk.

Memory and concurrency

• RxJava (⭐47k) - Library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences.

Profilers

• hdrhistogram-metrics-reservoir - A Metrics Reservoir implementation backed by HdrHistogram.

• metrics - Measure the behavior of critical components in production environment.

Media

• How NOT to Measure Latency - Gil Tene.

14. Awesome Db

JAVA

• Titan (⭐5.2k) - Distributed Graph Database http://titandb.io

15. Awesome D3

Maps / Third Party

• mapmap.js (⭐108) - A data-driven API for interactive thematic maps

16. Awesome PICO 8

Contents / Tools

• picotool (⭐357) - Tools and Python libraries for manipulating Pico-8 game files.

17. Awesome Jquery

UI / Paid Books

• Dragula (⭐21k) - Framework agnostic drag and drop library, supports jQuery integration.

• X-editable (⭐6.5k) - In-place editing with Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI or pure jQuery.

18. Awesome Elixir

Command Line Applications

• progress_bar (⭐330) - Command-line progress bars and spinners.

Embedded Systems

• nerves - A framework for writing embedded software in Elixir.

Queue

• toniq (⭐340) - Simple and reliable background job library for Elixir.

19. Engineering Blogs

Individuals/Group Contributors / D individuals

• Dragan Gaic http://www.gajotres.net/

20. Tips

Show the most recent tag on the current branch.

git describe --tags --abbrev=0

21. Awesome Stock Resources

Photography / CC0-license

• Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.

• Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.

• Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.

• The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.

Photography / Unspecified License

• Freejpg - Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.

• Trunklog - A collection of photos from photographer Magnus Jälthammar.

Patterns / Unspecified License

• CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable patterns.

• The Pattern Library - A collection of bold, bright and funky repeatable patterns.

Fonts / Unspecified License

• Font Fabric - Font Fabric's free fonts.

• The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.

Colors / Icons Packages and Collections

• Colour Lovers - A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.

• Flat UI Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.

Aggregated Content / Icons Packages and Collections

• All The Free Stock - One stop resource for free stock images, videos, sounds and more.

• Libre Stock - Search engine for stock photo websites.

Paid Resources / Icons Packages and Collections

• Adobe Stock - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors.

22. Awesome Iot

Software / Middlewares

• IFTTT - IFTTT is a web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes", which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. IFTTT is an abbreviation of "If This Then That" (pronounced like "gift" without the "g").

• Huginn (⭐40k) - Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online.

Software / Miscellaneous

• Freeboard - A real-time interactive dashboard and visualization creator implementing an intuitive drag & drop interface.

23. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Command-line apps

• Jsome (⭐242) - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.

Packages / Command-line utilities

• chalk (⭐22k) - Terminal string styling done right.

• multispinner (⭐295) - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.

Packages / Streams

• readable-stream (⭐1k) - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.

Packages / Real-time

• SocketCluster (⭐6.1k) - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.

Packages / Math

• ndarray (⭐1.2k) - Multidimensional arrays.

Packages / Parsing

• PEG.js (⭐4.8k) - Simple parser generator that produces fast parsers with excellent error reporting.

Packages / Compression

• Archiver (⭐2.8k) - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.

Packages / Testing

• Sinon.JS (⭐9.6k) - Test spies, stubs and mocks.

Packages / Minifiers

• minimize (⭐162) - HTML minifier.

• imagemin (⭐5.5k) - Image minifier.

Packages / Node.js management

• n (⭐19k) - Node.js version management.

Packages / Process management

• supervisor (⭐3.8k) - Restart scripts when they crash or restart when a *.js file changes.

Packages / Miscellaneous

• nodegit (⭐5.6k) - Native bindings to Git.

Resources / Articles

• Teach Yourself Node.js in 10 Steps

Resources / Blogs

• Node.js blog

24. Awesome Swift

UI / Barcode

• GMStepper (⭐923) - A stepper with a sliding label in the middle.

• StarryStars (⭐174) - Display & edit ratings, fully customizable from interface builder.

25. Awesome Functional Programming

Table of Contents / Blog posts

• Personal thoughts on the current functional programming bandwagon Despite the name, this post actually clarifies some baisc concepts on Functional Programming, explains some of the History of FP and the implementation of FPs features on imperative languages and talks about all the fuss on declarative programming and why it has become so popular in the last few years.

• A Monad in Practicality - Controlling Time

• A Monad in Practicality - First Class Failures

Table of Contents / Papers

• Why Functional Programming Matters

Table of Contents / Books

• The Little MLer - A book focused on teaching types, recursive thinking and other important subjects in Standard ML.

• Introduction to Programming using SML - Introduces you to programming design in a very mathematical way.

• Introduction to Functional Programming

Table of Contents / Videos

• Haskell is useless - Simon Peyton Jones being just too humble about his creation.

• Brian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State

• Erik Meijer: Functional Programming

• Scala Monads: Declutter Your Code With Monadic Design

• Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice

Table of Contents / Repos

• J-Bob (⭐414) - The proof assistant from the book The Little Prover

Table of Contents / People

• Simon Peyton Jones - One of the creators of the Haskell Language and the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Microsoft Researcher.

• Philip Wadler - Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, author of the famous paper Propositions as Types. One of the main people behind Java Generics Types.

• Matthias Felleisen - Author of many books such as How to Design Programs, and The Little Schemer.

• Erik Meijer - Former software architect for Microsoft, Functional Programming researcher, gives lectures on FP, Software Design and Reactive programming.

• Brian Beckman - Former Microsoft Researcher, actual Software Engineer at Amazon. Contributed to implementing FP features to inumerous Microsoft technologies such as C#, LINQ and F#

26. Awesome Tech Videos

Programming Languages / JavaScript

• Using JavaScript to Teach JavaScript By John Resig

Programming Languages / Elixir

• Embedded Elixir in Action By Garth Hitchens

• How to Contribute to Elixir and Phoenix By Wendy Smoak

Programming Languages / Scala

• We are Doing It All Wrong By Paul Phillips

Talks on Papers / Scala

• An axiomatic basis for Computer Science By Jean Yang

Architecture / Scala

• Facebook and memcached By Mark Zuckerberg

• Operations on Twitter: Scaling Beyong 100 Million Users By John Adams

• An overview of HTTP/2 By Daniel Sommermann

Motivation / Scala

• Simplicity Aint Easy By Stuart Halloway

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