Awesome List Updates on Aug 04 - Aug 10, 2014

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1. Awesome Groovy

HTTP

• Groovy-wslite (⭐397) - Lightweight SOAP and REST webservice clients for Groovy

Transpilers

• Grooscript (⭐220) - Converts your Groovy code to Javascript

Static Web

• Grain (⭐154) - Static Web Site Building Framework For Groovy

• Gaiden (⭐166) - Gaiden is a tool that makes it easy to create documentation with Markdown.

Language Utilities

• Functionalgroovy (⭐67) - Functional programming in Groovy

• Groovy-stream (⭐66) - A collection of classes to give a fluent builder for Streams (Lazy Groovy Generators)

• Flipside (⭐21) - Simple Groovy options library

2. Awesome Machine Learning

Clojure / Data Analysis

• PigPen (⭐552) - Map-Reduce for Clojure.

Python / Data Analysis / Data Visualization

• Petrel (⭐247) - Tools for writing, submitting, debugging, and monitoring Storm topologies in pure Python.

• emcee (⭐1.4k) - The Python ensemble sampling toolkit for affine-invariant MCMC.

Python / Misc Scripts / iPython Notebooks / Codebases

• Allen Downey’s Data Science Course (⭐42) - Code for Data Science at Olin College, Spring 2014.

• Allen Downey’s Think Bayes Code (⭐1.6k) - Code repository for Think Bayes.

• Allen Downey’s Think Complexity Code (⭐96) - Code for Allen Downey's book Think Complexity.

• Allen Downey’s Think OS Code (⭐537) - Text and supporting code for Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems.

3. Quick Look Plugins

Plugins

QLStephen (⭐2.6k)

Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. Example: README, CHANGELOG, index.styl, etc.

Run brew install qlstephen or download manually (⭐2.6k)

QLMarkdown (⭐3.1k)

Preview Markdown files

Run brew install qlmarkdown or download manually

QuickLookJSON

Preview JSON files

Run brew install quicklook-json or download manually

More

ProvisionQL (⭐2.1k)

Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information

Run brew install provisionql or download manually (⭐2.1k)

4. Awesome Android

GUI / ActionBar

• ActionBarSherlock - ActionBar for older Android versions.

• FadingActionBar (⭐2.9k) - Fading action bar effect that can be seen in the new Play Music app.

GUI / Navigation

• SlidingMenu (⭐11k) - Library to create applications with slide-in menus.

• PagerSlidingTabStrip (⭐121) - An interactive indicator to navigate between the different pages of a ViewPager.

5. Awesome Datascience

Facebook Accounts / Book Deals (Affiliated) 🛍

• Big data hadoop NOSQL Hive Hbase

• Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Artificial Intelligence

• Big Data Analytics using R

• Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop

• Big Data Learnings

• Big Data, Data Science, Data Mining & Statistics

• BigData/Hadoop Expert

• Data Mining / Machine Learning / AI

• Data Mining/Big Data - Social Network Ana

6. Es6 Tools

Parsers / Brunch Plugins

• Traceur compiler (⭐8.2k) also has built-in parser available under traceur.syntax.Parser.

• esparse (⭐115) - ES6 parser written in ES6.

7. Awesome Vagrant

Boxes

• Cloud Images Ubuntu.com - "clean" official Ubuntu cloud images.

• Puppet Labs Vagrant Boxes - these boxes are provided to be used by various Puppet projects.

Notable plugins

• vagrant-host-shell (⭐116) - a vagrant provisioner to run commands on the host when a VM boots.

Helpers / Tools

• Veewee (⭐4.3k) - a tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and virtual machine images.

Web services

• Phansible - provides an easy to use interface that helps you generate Ansible Playbooks for PHP based projects.

• PuPHPet - a simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP Web development.

Tutorials

• Getting started with Vagrant - automated dev servers deploy and provisioning.

• Working with Advanced Vagrant features in PhpStorm.

8. Js Must Watch

2009

• Nicholas Zakas: Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture [52:22]

2010

• Douglas Crockford: Volume One: The Early Years [1:42:08]

• Douglas Crockford: Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript [1:30:22]

• Douglas Crockford: Act III: Function the Ultimate [1:13:28]

• Douglas Crockford: Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax [1:33:54]

• Douglas Crockford: Part 5: The End of All Things [1:24:42]

• Douglas Crockford: Scene 6: Loopage [51:52]

2011

• Douglas Crockford: Level 7: ECMAScript 5: The New Parts [57:18]

• Douglas Crockford: Section 8: Programming Style and Your Brain [1:06:45]

• Ryan Dahl: Introduction to Node.js [1:06:33]

• Alex Russell: Learning to Love JavaScript [1:03:25]

2012

• Ryan Sandor Richards: Garbage Collection & Heap Management [32:57]

• John-David Dalton: Lo-Dash [25:08]

• Angus Croll: Break all the rules [31:29]

• Nicholas Zakas: Maintainable JavaScript [47:04]

2013

• Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices [29:31]

• Martin Kleppe: 1024+ Seconds of JS Wizardry [31:01]

• Yehuda Katz: A tale of two MVC's [31:06]

• Vyacheslav Egorov: Performance and Benchmarking [25:41]

• Brendan Eich: JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble [25:44]

2014

• Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [27:41]

• Neil Green: Writing Custom DSLs [29:07]

• Scott Hanselman: Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler [25:56]

• Jafar Husain: Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions [26:38]

9. Awesome Fortran

Testing

• Ftunit - Fortran unit testing framework by Arjen Markus

10. Critical Path Css Tools

PhantomJS

• dr-css-inliner (⭐81) - PhantomJS script to inline above-the-fold CSS on a page.

11. Awesome Cakephp

CakePHP Websites

• jedistirfry.co.uk - A CakePHP related dev blog.

CakePHP Videos

• CakePHP - Channel about CakePHP videos.

CakePHP Internals Reading

• Top 10 (and more) core contributors (⭐8.7k) - Give 'em a hand.

12. Awesome Laravel

Packages

• Packagist

• Packalyst

Community / Videos

• IRC Channel

• Twitter

• Google+

• Facebook

Jobs / Meetups

• LaraJobs

Guidelines / Meetups

• Please make an individual pull request for each suggestion

13. Sublime Bookmarks

Extensions / General Purpose

• StyleToken (⭐48) — allows to highlight certain pieces of text with different colors (similar to Notepad++ "Style token" functionality).

• Synesthesia (⭐17) — a plugin for highlighting text with pretty colours.

14. Awesome R

Parallel Computing

• Rmpi - Rmpi provides an interface (wrapper) to MPI APIs. It also provides interactive R slave environment.

Language API

• rJava - Low-level R to Java interface.

• rJython - R interface to Python via Jython.

• rPython - Package allowing R to call Python.

• runr (⭐85) - Run Julia and Bash from R.

• RJulia (⭐142) - R package Call Julia.

• R.matlab - Read and write of MAT files together with R-to-MATLAB connectivity.

• RSPerl - A bidirectional interface for calling R from Perl and Perl from R.

Natural Language Processing

• tm - A comprehensive text mining framework for R.

• openNLP - Apache OpenNLP Tools Interface.

• koRpus - An R Package for Text Analysis.

• zipfR - Statistical models for word frequency distributions.

15. Awesome Unity

Tutorials

• Catlike Coding - Tutorials designed for learning the C# scripting side of Unity.

• Official Video Tutorials - The official tutorials for scripting, animation, audio, and almost anything Unity related.

16. Awesome Haskell

Tutorials / Video Tutorials

• Redoing Make - Haskell from Scratch

• Haskell - Code Deconstructed

• Adventures in Haskell - A Calculator

• Sed implementation in Haskell

• LazyCasts

• Haskell Development Workflow Demo

17. Awesome Beacon

iBeacon for Developers

• 5 fundamental misconceptions about Beacon technology by RadiusNetworks

• Ask a Dev: What Are the Limitations of Beacons?

• What's the Difference Between Beacons and Geofencing?

• Guide to iBeacon Hardware by beekn.net

• Developing an iBeacon App by beekn.net

Stackoverflow Q&A

• iBeacon Scanner - Scan for nearby iBeacons regardless of their UUID (⭐136)

• A node.js BLE (Bluetooth low energy) central module (⭐3.2k)

• A node.js module for implementing BLE (Bluetooth low energy) peripherals (⭐2k)

18. Awesome Cpp

Online Compiler

• codepad - An online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool.

• Ideone - An online compiler and debugging tool which allows you to compile source code and execute it online in more than 60 programming languages.

Debugger

• Valgrind - A tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.

Static Code Analysis

• Cppcheck - A tool for static C/C++ code analysis. - source (⭐5.3k)

• OCLint - A static source code analysis tool to improve quality and reduce defects for C, C++ and Objective-C. - source (⭐3.7k)

Websites

• cplusplus.com - The C++ Resources Network.

19. Awesome Perl

Class Builder / DSP

• Class::Accessor::Lite - Simple accessor generator.

• Class::Accessor::Lite::Lazy - Generate lazy accessors.

• Mouse - Yet another class builder like Moo/Moose.

Database / DSP

• DBIx::Handler - Fork-safe DBI handler

Profiling / NoSQL Databases

• Devel::KYTProf - Very light profiler for I/Os such as HTTP request-responses and SQL queries.

Template Engines / NoSQL Databases

• Tiffany - Generic interface for template engines. It makes it easy to use multiple template engines.

20. Awesome Javascript

MVC Frameworks and Libraries / Runner

• thorax (⭐1.3k) - Strengthening your Backbone.

• chaplin (⭐2.9k) - An architecture for JavaScript applications using the Backbone.js library.

• marionette (⭐7.1k) - A composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications.

Functional Programming / Runner

• mout (⭐1.3k) - Modular JavaScript Utilities.

Control Flow / Runner

• Bluebird (⭐20k) - fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.

Voice Command / Runner

• annyang (⭐6.5k) - A JavaScript library for adding voice commands to your site, using speech recognition.

• voix.js (⭐550) - A JavaScript library to add voice commands to your sites, apps or games.

API / Runner

• bottleneck (⭐1.7k) - A powerful rate limiter that makes throttling easy.

• oauth-signature-js (⭐232) - JavaScript OAuth 1.0a signature generator for node and the browser.

21. Awesome Bigdata

Frameworks

• Apache Hadoop - framework for distributed processing. Integrates MapReduce (parallel processing), YARN (job scheduling) and HDFS (distributed file system).

Distributed Programming

• AddThis Hydra (⭐438) - distributed data processing and storage system originally developed at AddThis.

• Apache DataFu - collection of user-defined functions for Hadoop and Pig developed by LinkedIn.

• DataTorrent StrAM - real-time engine is designed to enable distributed, asynchronous, real time in-memory big-data computations in as unblocked a way as possible, with minimal overhead and impact on performance.

Document Data Model

• Facebook Apollo - Facebook’s Paxos-like NoSQL database.

Key-value Data Model

• Oracle NoSQL Database - distributed key-value database by Oracle Corporation.

Graph Data Model

• Gremlin (⭐1.9k) - graph traversal Language.

• Infovore (⭐148) - RDF-centric Map/Reduce framework.

NewSQL Databases

• Actian Ingres - commercially supported, open-source SQL relational database management system.

• Cockroach (⭐27k) - Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore.

• Datomic - distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications.

• FoundationDB - distributed database, inspired by F1.

• Oracle TimesTen in-Memory Database - in-memory, relational database management system with persistence and recoverability.

Time-Series Databases

• OpenTSDB - distributed time series database on top of HBase.

SQL-like processing

• RainstorDB - database for storing petabyte-scale volumes of structured and semi-structured data.

• Trafodion - enterprise-class SQL-on-HBase solution targeting big data transactional or operational workloads.

Data Ingestion

• Heka (⭐3.4k) - open source stream processing software system.

• LinkedIn White Elephant (⭐190) - log aggregator and dashboard.

Service Programming

• Spotify Luigi (⭐17k) - a Python package for building complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization, handling failures, command line integration, and much more.

Scheduling

• Apache Oozie - workflow job scheduler.

Benchmarking

• PUMA Benchmarking - benchmark suite for MapReduce applications.

Security

• Apache Sentry - security module for data stored in Hadoop.

System Deployment

• Brooklyn - library that simplifies application deployment and management.

Applications

• Apache OODT - capturing, processing and sharing of data for NASA's scientific archives.

Search engine and framework

• HBase Coprocessor - implementation of Percolator, part of HBase.

• Lily HBase Indexer - quickly and easily search for any content stored in HBase.

PostgreSQL forks and evolutions

• HadoopDB - hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS.

• IBM Netezza - high-performance data warehouse appliances.

• Postgres-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster.

• RecDB - Open Source Recommendation Engine Built Entirely Inside PostgreSQL.

• Stado - open source MPP database system solely targeted at data warehousing and data mart applications.

Memcached forks and evolutions

• Twemproxy (⭐12k) - A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis.

Embedded Databases

• Actian PSQL - ACID-compliant DBMS developed by Pervasive Software, optimized for embedding in applications.

Data Visualization

• Cytoscape - JavaScript library for visualizing complex networks.

• Freeboard (⭐6.4k) - pen source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups.

• Google Charts - simple charting API.

• Peity (⭐4.2k) - Progressive SVG bar, line and pie charts.

2011 - 2012

• 2012 - Twitter - The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter.

22. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Text

• i18n-node (⭐3.1k) - Simple translation module with dynamic JSON storage.

Packages / Math

• mathjs (⭐14k) - An extensive math library.

Packages / Compression

• tar-stream (⭐393) - Streaming tar parser and generator. Also see tar-fs (⭐348).

23. Awesome Ocaml

Code Analysis and Linters

• Mascot - Mascot is a style-checker for OCaml sources.

Formal Software Verification

• Why3 – Why3 is a platform for deductive program verification. It provides a rich language for specification and programming, called WhyML, and relies on external theorem provers, both automated and interactive, to discharge verification conditions.

• Alt-Ergo – Alt-Ergo is an open-source SMT solver dedicated to the proof of mathematical formulas generated in the context of program verification.

General

• (Functional) Alternatives to inheritance

• camlPDF (⭐194) – OCaml library for reading, writing and modifying PDF files.

24. Awesome D

Tutorials

• D Template Tutorial (⭐223) - A tutorial dedicated to D Templates. Very good explanation about templates. Has pdf version. by Philippe Sigaud.

Blogs / Bare metal / kernel development

• Planet D - A repository of co-authored D-specific blogs maintained by Vladimir Panteleev.

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