Awesome List Updates on Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2015

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1. Awesome Cakephp

Demo

CakeFest - Demo application around the annual CakePHP Conference "CakeFest".

2. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Command-line apps

mobicon (⭐111) - Mobile app icon generator.

3. Awesome Jvm

Virtual Machines

Avian (⭐1.2k) - Lightweight highly portable JVM with an option for AOT compilation.

J2ObjC (⭐5.9k) - Translator from Java source to Objective-C code. Keeps shared code between iOS native apps and Android native apps.

ParparVM (⭐1.3k) - An Open Source Java bytecode to C translator for iOS native development. Designed as a part of the Codename One WORA for mobile project.

4. Awesome Crystal

Database Drivers/Clients

crystal-redis (⭐380) - Full featured Redis client

Misc

emoji.cr (⭐47) - Emoji library

Testing

minitest.cr (⭐146) - Library for unit tests and assertions

5. Awesome Static Website Services

Surveys / Provided by the Host

Typeform - Really beautiful forms.

Google Forms - You can use Google forms for surveys or for forms on your site.

SurveyMonkey - Easy to use and free surveys.

Qualaroo - Embed surveys anywhere on your website that comes up from the bottom right side of the screen.

Newsletters / Provided by the Host

MailChimp - Free email marketing. You can pay to add more features.

MailerLite - Free email marketing. You can pay for more subscribers.

Social Media / Provided by the Host

Pinterest - Pin It Button.

Twitter - Embedded tweets.

Facebook - Facebook embedded plugins.

ShareThis - Sharing buttons for multiple social networks.

E-Commerce / Provided by the Host

FoxyCart - Add a shopping cart with basic html code.

Search / Provided by the Host

lunr.js - Simple full-text search in your browser.

Google Custom Search Engine - Search your site with a custom Google Search.

6. Creative Commons Media

Audio

Audio Archive - Internet Archive's Audio Archive

Bandcamp - Creative Commons tag on Bandcamp

Free Music Archive - The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.

Graphics

Open Font Library
- CC-BY
- CC-BY-SA - Open Fonts available under several open source licences

Pixabay - Photos, cliparts and artwork on CC0 licence. Requires login.

Open Data

Geonames - The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

Open Journals

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

PLOS - Open access research articles

Open courseware

Candela Learning

MIT OpenCourseWare

OpenIntro

OpenStax College

P2PU - Peer to peer university - all under CC BY-SA 4.0 license

Siyavula Open Textbooks

Skills Commons - Open Career training resources

3d Printing

Thingiverse - from MakerBot

Misc

Europeana - Explore 48,427,731 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.

Internet Archive

Jurispedia - The shared law

Wikipedia - All under CC BY-SA license

7. Awesome Stock Resources

Colors / Icons Packages and Collections

0xrgb - A minimalistic color picker for well-known palettes (Material, iOS, FlatUI, Metro, Tango, Solarized).

8. Awesome Projects Boilerplates

Python

gae-init Google App Engine based on Flask, RESTful, Bootstrap and tons of other cool features.

9. Awesome Speaking

CFP

Callback Women - Sharing CFPs via Twitter.

10. Tips

Clean the files from `.gitignore`.

git clean -X -f

Restore deleted file.

git checkout <deleting_commit> -- <file_path>

11. Engineering Blogs

Companies / T companies

Target https://target.github.io/

12. Awesome Cli Apps

Development / Mobile Development

mobicon-cli (⭐110) - Mobile app icon generator.

13. Awesome Relay

FAQs

Unofficial Relay FAQ - Common questions answered! Relay resources are scarce at the moment, so this is very helpful if you get stuck.

Overviews

Facebook Relay talk - Lunch and Learn session - Walkthrough of building a simple app, and demonstration of GraphiQL (⭐14k).

F8 2015 - React Native & Relay: Bringing Modern Web Techniques to Mobile - Overview of Relay, some about the philosophy.

Relay - Daniel Dembach - Hamburg React.js Meetup - A good general overview of Relay, some discussion of alternatives. Common questions are covered in Q&A at the end.

React with Relay and GraphQL with Andrew Smith - High level overview of Relay and GraphQL, with some useful discussion from the audience. Some discussion of other front-end frameworks, as well.

Relay for Visual Learners - Very clear set of diagrams laying out how the different parts of Relay relate to each other.

Cartoon Intro to Facebook's Relay - An overview of how Relay works, complete with illustrations.

Example Implementations

Relay TODO MVC (⭐162) - The classic TODO example app, written with Relay.

relay-chat - Relay with routing and pagination.

koa-graphql-relay-example - "TODO" app with koa-graphql and relay.

Go

todomvc-relay-go - React/Relay TodoMVC app, driven by a Golang GraphQL backend.

Go Relay (⭐397) - A Go/Golang library to help construct a graphql-go server supporting react-relay.

JavaScript

graphql-relay-js - Simplifies creating a JS GraphQL server for react-relay.

Tooling

Babel Relay Plugin - Use Relay the latest ES6+ syntax.

relay-local-schema - Use a local schema; no need for a remote GraphQL server.

Libraries & Packages

relay-decorator - Simply syntax for Relay containers with ES7 decorators (@ syntax)

recompose-relay - Ease composition of Relay containers by currying and providing the component after the container.

react-native-relay - Use Relay with React Native.
- May be supported out of the box (⭐17k) in the future.

relay-sink - Use Relay to fetch and store data outside of a React component.

Starter Kits

Simple Relay Starter (⭐156) - A Browserify version of the Relay Starter Kit (⭐1k).

Python

graphql-relay-py - A library to help construct a graphql-py server supporting react-relay.

Ruby

graphql-relay-ruby - Relay helpers for GraphQL & Ruby.

Scala / Rails

sangria-relay - Relay support for Sangria.

14. Awesome Laravel

Podcasts / Videos

The Laravel Podcast

The Laracasts Snippet

15. Awesome Clojurescript

Awesome ClojureScript / Document Object Model

Dominator (⭐73) – Virtual-Dom in ClojureScript.

Enfocus – A DOM manipulation and templating library for ClojureScript inspired by Enlive.

Freactive (⭐394) – A high-performance, pure Clojurescript, declarative DOM library inspired by reagent, om, reflex and hiccup.

json-html (⭐158) – Provide JSON and get a DOM node with a human representation of that JSON.

16. Awesome Elixir

Testing

power_assert (⭐214) - Power Assert in Elixir. Shows evaluation results each expression.

Websites

Learning Elixir - A blog about a Professional Software Engineer learning Elixir.

17. Awesome Flexbox

Featured Projects / Slides and Notes

Flexbox Patterns - Examples and source code that will teach you how to build UI components with CSS flexbox! What’s flexbox?

18. Typography

Articles

Font Smoothing

Dashes in Web Typography

Typeface Mechanics

Web Fonts & Web Performance

Lightning Fast Font Loading Techniques

Font Loading Revisited with Font Events

How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm

Tools

Preventing the Performance Hit from Custom Fonts

brick.im (⭐2.9k)

Books

On Web Typography

19. Awesome Electron

Closed Source / Other

Stremio - Media center.

Pingendo - Bootstrap prototyping.

MockingBot - Prototyping tool for designing apps.

Caret - Markdown editor.

Boilerplates / Other

electron-react-boilerplate (⭐23k) - Boilerplate based on React and webpack.

Videos / Other

The State of Electron

20. Awesome Rxjava

Articles

Rx glitches aren't actually a problem - Glitches are temporary inconsistencies emitted by Observables. André Staltz looks at why it's not really a problem.