Happy Hallowe’en! If I were organized enough, I would have done a more themed collection of links today. But as it is, I don’t have much of a link backlog and so it will be a bit random I’m afraid.
Draft
https://draftin.com
Draft is an online set of tools for writers. Particularly useful for getting feedback and edits to your work online. Supports posting to numerous cloud services and blog platforms.
More JavaScript today. :)
Nightmare
http://www.nightmarejs.org/
Not like the one you had last night, this nightmare is wrapper for PhantomJS (headless browser) which provides a more simplified API which allows for high level testing to be done much more easily.
The Definitive Guide to the JavaScript Generators
http://gajus.com/blog/2/the-definetive-guide-to-the-javascript-generators
I’ve spoken about promises before as an asynchronous flow control mechanism. For the sake of academic completeness, I should also mention generators. Since these typically involve special execution modes in Node.
Today my links are front-end related but they aren’t more JavaScript libraries, but rather tools which can help with the design, development or testing of web applications.
Finch
https://meetfinch.com/
Finch helps solve the problem of testing your in-development application on devices out in the world. Or simply sharing your work with clients, etc. without needing to set up a staging or development server online. Simply connect your local server to Finch and then point others to your Finch URL.
A bit of a random collection today. Hopefully useful, although not necessarily very Orbis related.
Digital Ocean
https://www.digitalocean.com (referral link)
I realized that I haven’t mentioned Digital Ocean before, and that is a shame because I find them to be an excellent VPS provider. If you want a quick and easy Linux cloud machine (known as a droplet), then look no further. They support a basic set of Linux distros as images, but they also have some application images as well.
Today things are static site themed. Why deploy a site with an expensive runtime if all of your pages are runtime static? With functionality moving increasingly to the browser, it is becoming popular to generate sites (like personal blogs, etc) out of some form of source content (often markdown files) and templates.
Hugo
http://gohugo.io/
A fast and modern static website engine written in Go. I’ve been using it for a couple of personal projects and it is pretty good.
Sorry for the long time between posts, as everyone knows, it is a busy time. A bit of a random collection of links today.
Magnum CI
https://magnum-ci.com/
Simple easy to use hosted CI tool for building Ruby, php, node.js, and Go apps, running tests, etc. Could also be used to deploy the apps as well. Works with mercurial as well as git.
TOML
https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language. TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that’s easy to read due to obvious semantics.
Heartbleed http://heartbleed.com
Not really a fun link, but for anyone who hasn’t heard there was a serious vulnerability announced this week around OpenSSL. Short story: change your passwords at places which are potentially affected.
Metalsmith http://www.metalsmith.io/
A plugin-based static site generator. I haven’t used it yet, but the docs look good. Has a similar feel to Grunt and Gulp, two JavaScript task execution systems.
Avow CI
http://avow-ci.com/ (this link is now dead)
Happy Friday everyone
Some more interesting collaborative services and apps.
Kobra
https://kobra.io/
Real time collaborative coding, with text and video chat. Currently in public beta.
CoderPad
https://coderpad.io/
CoderPad lets you instantly write and execute code collaboratively with an interviewee, right in the browser. Supports all the common languages including C# and JavaScript, so might be something we could use for interviews.
Socrates.io
http://socrates.io/
A simple real time Markdown editor and previewer.
Some interesting services for folks building web applications.
GoInstant
https://goinstant.com
A backend as a service offering with a good sized free plan. They also offer GoAngular (http://goangular.org/) with specific support for AngularJS.
Divshot
http://www.divshot.com/
Static web hosting with easy deployment options. They also offer Architect which is a visual HTML builder. Free up to 100MB with 1GB transfer.
UserApp
https://www.userapp.io/
User management as a service. Includes payments, email and social connectors as well.
Happy Friday everyone!
Lots of interesting online IDEs and tools to play with:
Gistbox
http://gistboxapp.com
Manage your Github gists in a more organized way, share with teams and collect content with a Chrome extension.
Discourse
http://www.discourse.org/
Created by Jeff Atwood, Discourse is a community/discussion/forum platform which is open source and carrying a lot of potential.
Compilr
https://compilr.com/
Similar to Cloud9 (https://c9.io) which I’ve mentioned before.
HTML5 Please
http://html5please.com/
Not so much a tool as a reference for determining what and how to use from the suite of HTML “stuff”.