Awesome List Updates on Feb 08 - Feb 14, 2016

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1. Awesome Rails Gem

Plugins / Omniauth

• Airbrussh (⭐509) - Airbrussh pretties up your SSHKit and Capistrano output

File Uploading / Omniauth

• Carrierwave (⭐8.7k) - Carrierwave is a classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks.
  • carrierwave_backgrounder (⭐724) - Offload CarrierWave's image processing and storage to a background process using Delayed Job, Resque, Sidekiq, Qu, Queue Classic or Girl Friday.
  • CarrierWave Crop (⭐94) - Carrierwave extension to crop uploaded images using Jcrop plugin with preview.
  • CarrierWave ImageOptimizer (⭐210) - This gem allows you to simply optimize CarrierWave images via jpegoptim or optipng using the image_optimizer gem.

View Helper / Omniauth

• i18n Country Code Select (⭐25) - I18n Country Code Select Form Helper for Rails 3 & 4.

• Subdivision Select (⭐19) - A Rails plugin to populate a state/province select box from country_select.

2. Awesome Streaming

Table of Contents / Readings

• In-Stream Big Data Processing

• The world beyond batch: Streaming 101 by Tyler Akidau.

3. Sublime Bookmarks

Fun stuff / Themes

• Comfort (⭐2) — A wonderful theme for sublime Text!.

4. Awesome Groovy

Concurrency

• GPars (⭐235) - The GPars concurrency and parallelism framework for the JVM

5. Awesome Android

GUI

• EntryScreenManager (⭐41) - Intro/Entry/Walkthrough/Starting Screens.

Other / Custom Dialog

• AudioPlayerView (⭐87) - A view that loads audio from an url and have basic playback tools.

6. Awesome Ocaml

Developer Tools

• OCaml Yeoman Generator (⭐22) – Yeoman generator to scaffold OCaml modules.

7. Awesome Laravel

Books / Videos

• Writing APIs With Lumen by Paul Redmond

• The Laravel Survival Guide by Tony Lea

• Laraboot: Laravel 5 For Beginners by Bill Keck

8. Awesome Haskell

Tutorials

• Happy Learn Haskell Tutorial - Pain-free, Gradual Haskell Tutorial with cartoon robots!

9. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Ariya Hidayat (⭐29) - VP of Engineering Shape Security, Author of Esprima and PhantomJS.

10. Awesome Rest

JavaScript Clients

• raml-client-generator (⭐121) - Generates static client libs for js.

Python / Symfony2

• Ramses - Makes RAML files executable by generating production-ready APIs from them at runtime.

Documentation / Symfony2

• raml2html (⭐1.1k) - Generates HTML documentation from a RAML file.

11. Awesome Swift

UI / Barcode

• Reel search (⭐2.5k) - Option list managed as a reel.

12. Awesome Cpp

Math

• blaze - high-performance C++ math library for dense and sparse arithmetic. [BSD]

13. Awesome Github

Tips, tricks, tools, and add-ons for GitHub power users

• HubPress (⭐2.8k) - A web application to build your Blog on GitHub

14. Awesome Ruby

Markdown Processors

• word-to-markdown (⭐1.5k) - Gem to convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown.

15. Awesome Text Editing

Rich-text editors using contenteditable

• CKEditor - Started back in 2003. Has both iframe and inline style rich-text editing

• ProseMirror - From the maker of CodeMirror

• Scribe (⭐3.5k) - From the Guardian team

• Quill - Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web

• Etherpad - Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time

• Froala - A simple to use rich text editor, with mobile support, lots of examples, high performance and inline editing

• Redactor - Advanced, clean and smooth, Redactor Rich Text Editor offers an excellent immersive user experience

• Ritzy (⭐895) - Collaborative web-based rich text editor

• Aloha Editor - Open Source browser based html5 enabled rich text editor

• WYMeditor - Open Source XHTML editor focusing on semantic markup

• Dijit Editor - a Dojo-based rich text editor component

• YUI Rich Text Editor - a Yahoo! rich text editor component

• KindEditor (⭐1.8k) - Open Source HTML editor

Code editors

• CodeMirror - CodeMirror is a versatile text editor implemented in JavaScript for the browser

• Ace - Ace is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript

• Behave.js - lightweight library for adding IDE style behaviors to plain text areas

Heuristic for contenteditable rich-text editors

• Be stable

• Be open source

• Handle soft breaks

• Be able to manipulate styles on block level elements

• Be able to manipulate styles on inline level elements

• Be able to manipulate classes on block level elements

• Be able to manipulate classes on inline level elements

• Be able to alter custom attributes on block level elements

• Be able to alter custom attributes on inline level elements

• Cache the selection

• Have iframing capabilities as well as inline mode capability

• Change the tag type of nodes

• Clear the format

• Have a concise api

• Support various module loaders
  • AMD & Common.js

• Should have an organization backing the service and have a potential paid support plan

• Should copy & paste from Microsoft word

16. Awesome Pcaptools

Traffic Analysis/Inspection

• potiron (⭐81): Normalizes, indexes, enriches and visualizes network captures.

17. Tips

Grab a single file from a stash

git checkout <stash@{n}> -- <file_path>

Alternatives:

git checkout stash@{0} -- <file_path>

Untrack files without deleting

git rm --cached <file_path>

Alternatives:

git rm --cached -r <directory_path>

Restore file to a specific commit-hash

git checkout <commit-ish> -- <file_path>

Dry run. (any command that supports dry-run flag should do.)

git clean -fd --dry-run

18. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Job queues

• bull (⭐15k) - Persistent job and message queue.

19. Awesome Fuse

Open Source

• Syncano (⭐5) - Simple example of integration Syncano with Fuse.

20. Awesome Functional Programming

Table of Contents / Books

• How to Design Programs / Second Edition

21. Awesome Lua

Resources / Game Engines

• Drystal - Open source, games can run on Linux or on any platform with a recent web browser.

• Amulet - Open source, audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

22. Awesome Jvm

Media

• Java Profiling from the Ground Up - Nitsan Wakart.

23. Awesome Refinerycms

Backoffice extensions

• refinerycms-redactor (⭐2) - WYSIWYG editor with Redactor

• refinerycms-snoods (⭐1) - Creating download pages and sending leads to Salesforce

24. Awesome Micro Npm Packages

Articles

• Evaluating Packages Part 1 - Turn to community

• Evaluating Packages Part 2 - Review repository

Modules / Array

• map-array (⭐4) - Map object keys and values into an array.

Modules / Object

• flatten-obj (⭐20) - Converts an object literal with deeply nested nodes to a simple key/value object.

Modules / Function

• identity-function - Always return the input argument.

• mem (⭐1k) - An optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.

25. Awesome Dotnet

Logging

• ELMAH - Official ELMAH site

26. Awesome Phalcon

Authentication & OAuth

• phalcon-authmiddleware (⭐27) - Add middleware events to the dispatcher. Generic design that's compatible with ACL or a custom auth library.

27. Awesome Javascript

Modals and Popups / Other

• SweetAlert (⭐22k) - An awesome replacement for JavaScript's alert.

28. Awesome Elixir

Algorithms and Data structures

• exconstructor (⭐285) - An Elixir library for generating struct constructors that handle external data with ease.

Email

• mail (⭐385) - An RFC2822 implementation in Elixir, built for composability.

29. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Queue

• PHP AMQP (⭐4.4k) - A pure PHP AMQP library.

Table of Contents / Data Structure and Storage

• Ginq (⭐192) - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.

Configuration / Development Environment

• Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.

30. Awesome Pyramid

Websites

• Try Pyramid - The Start Small, Finish Big, Stay Finished Framework. Official website.

31. Awesome R

Graphic Displays

• gganimate (⭐1.9k) - Create easy animations with ggplot2.

32. Awesome Aws

Open Source Repos / Kinesis

• amazon-kinesis-connectors 🔥🔥 (⭐328) - Libary to integrate with other AWS and non-AWS services.

33. Awesome Computer History

Videos / Old recordings

• United States Navy Training Media: Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers (1953)

• The Computer Chronicles (1983-2002) - All episodes ^8.6/10. A few of the notable episodes are:
  • Simulator Software (1983)
  • Artificial Intelligence (1985)
  • The Internet (1993)

• Net Cafe (1996-2002) - All episodes ^?/10. A few of the notable episodes are:
  • Hackers (1996) - Looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet
  • Politics on the Web (1996) - Institute for Global Communications, Cyperpunks and Anarchists Press

Videos / Documentaries

• The Internet: Behind the Web (2000) - Documentary about development of internet from 1950-60's to 21st century.

• The Codebreakers (2006) - Documentary about how poor countries are using free and open source software (FOSS) for development purposes.

Videos / Talks & Lectures

• Computers From The Inside Out (1985) - Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture. Not about computer history per se, but about how computers work

• The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds (2001) - Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student to become an icon for open source software.

• The Secret History of Silicon Valley (2008) - Talk by Steve Blank at the Computer History Museum

Texts / Folklore

• The Humble Programmer (1972) - Dijkstra's overview of the programming universe as he saw it in 1972

• The Conscience of a Hacker (1986) - The Hacker Manifesto

34. Awesome Vscode

C++

• gnu-global-tags - Provide Intellisense for C/C++ with the help of the GNU Global tool.

Haskell / More

• haskell-linter

Other extensions / Smarty Template Support

• phpcs - PHP CodeSniffer for Visual Studio Code

35. Awesome Npm

Command aliases

• npm i -D → npm install --save-dev

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