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Very useful comparison of different JavaScript MVC frameworks. (Spoiler: the article concludes Ember.js is best.)
The Top 10 Javascript MVC Frameworks Reviewed – CodeBrief Very useful comparison of different JavaScript MVC frameworks. Spoiler: the article concludes Ember.js (AKA SproutCore 2.0) is best. tags: javascript programming Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Nice survey of the various social-network influence sites
The Online Influence Players | Ressive Networks Nice survey of the various social-network influence players, including some interesting math on how one of them calculates “influence” in terms of probabilities that others have read your postings. (Note however, that this article is more than a year old, which is ancient in Internet-time.) tags: social algorithm [...]
links for 01/26/2012 (p.m.)
Jo HTML5 Mobile App Framework Another JavaScript development library for creating mobile web apps with a native app feel. tags: mobile html5 javascript Enyo JavaScript Application Framework The WebOS enyo library is now open-sourced and available for desktop browsers, not just mobile browsers. tags: javascript mobile webos programming Ookaboo RDF dump 2012-01-23 Mapping from concepts [...]
Generalized continuous compiling (like sbt or coffeescript)
One of the really nice things about the sbt build system (for building Scala projects) or the coffeescript compiler is that they have a “watch” mode. When you invoke a command in that mode (prepending with “~” (tilde) in sbt or adding the “–watch” argument to coffee) they continuously monitor your files and execute the [...]
Ambitious project to create a universal graphical language, available as free icons (via @kohlschuetter)
NounProject Ambitious project to create a universal graphical language, available as free icons (via @kohlschuetter) tags: web Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Interesting data on Facebook and iOS apps.
AppData – Facebook application leaderboards, charts, and metrics Interesting data on Facebook and iOS apps. tags: mobile Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Day after Occupy protest: Bank Modification
Day after Occupy protest: Bank Modification, originally uploaded by Tolka Rover. Walking down Montgomery Street in San Francisco, the day after an Occupy march, we saw that Bank of America had been subject to some modification.
Java library to find main text from web pages
boilerpipe – Boilerplate Removal and Fulltext Extraction from HTML pages – Google Project Hosting Find main text from web pages. tags: java web code library Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
JavaScript snippet for a shim to do cross-domain Ajax in IE
Cross-domain Ajax with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing | NCZOnline Includes JavaScript snippet for a shim to do cross-domain ajax in IE tags: javascript Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some useful tips for optimizing Rails for a simple JSON REST service
Jeff Dean’s Ruby Blog – Building a fast, lightweight REST service with Rails 3 Some useful tips for optimizing Rails for a simple JSON REST service tags: rubyonrails ruby Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Using JCoffeescript can mean for simpler setting up of a coffeescript development environment because it does not have dependencies on node.js and npm
yeungda/jcoffeescript – GitHub Using jcoffeescript (Java/Rhino implementation coffeescript) can mean for simpler setting up of a development environment because it does not have dependencies on node.js and npm, which can be difficult to install. However jcoffeescript is missing some features such as the –watch option or the ability to compile multiple files. tags: javascript Posted [...]
JavaScript templates
jQote2 – Javascript templating revamped : once upon my code A nice looking in-browser templating engine that claims to be faster than any other alternative except underscore.js tags: javascript Underscore.js templates with HAML and CoffeeScript – Jaime Moran Nice clean way of the underscore JavaScript library to evaluate in-browser templates. tags: javascript Posted from Diigo. [...]
When the worm turns: will consumers rebel against large-scale collection and analysis of their data?
Will Data Collection on User Behaviour Be Forced to End Soon? Interesting point of view on possible push-back from consumers on the massive collection of data about them. One particular quote: no one had yet found a way to articulate the value proposition of aggregate data analysis to end consumers because there wasn’t one yet [...]
Don’t confuse Users with Customers
If your users are also your customers, then you are lucky. It makes a lot of design and marketing decisions a lot simpler. You can focus laser-like on providing features that your users are willing to pay for. However the user is not always the customer. For example, if you are selling software to a [...]
links for 01/06/2012 (a.m.)
C++0xCompilerSupport – Stdcxx Wiki Handy table showing what new C++ features are supported by what compilers tags: c++ programming Web development tutorials, from beginner to advanced | Nettuts+ Great source for web development news and information. tags: web Popcorn.js | The HTML5 Media Framework HTML5 Javascript library tags: javascript video Posted from Diigo. The rest [...]
links for 01/04/2012 (a.m.)
Making cross domain JavaScript requests using XMLHttpRequest or XDomainRequest | Phil Leggetter – Real-Time Web Software and Technology Evangelist Another way to do cross-domain JavaScript calls. tags: javascript Ben Alman » jQuery postMessage: Cross-domain scripting goodness This seems like the best way to do cross-domain calls in JavaScript. tags: javascript Posted from Diigo. The rest [...]