Awesome List Updates on Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2015

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1. Awesome Bigdata

Applications

Hermes (⭐755) - asynchronous message broker built on top of Kafka.

2. Awesome Research

Version Control System

mercurial

Plotting and Charting Online / Enterprise Git Service

plot.ly: Online plotting with many cloud services integrated.

Desmos: Graphs for functions.

graph.tk: Online plotting with rich features.

Wolfram Alpha: Make graphs for functions, from your data and even more.

Writing / Social Sciences

Theoretical Physics (⭐205)

Sharing Slides / HTML+CSS+JS

GitHub pages: For Html based slides.

Speaker Deck by GitHub: PDF slides. Can be displayed online or embeded.

Blog and CMS / Social Sciences

Ghost (⭐44k) (Node.js): Open, Simple, non-profit; write with markdown and live preview.

Dropplets (⭐1.6k) (PHP): Open source, simple, and elegant blog system; write in Markdown.

Static Site Generator / Social Sciences

Pelican (Written in Python)(reStructuredText,Markdown,AsciiDoc): Pelican is a modularized framework and is perfect for blogging.
- Pelican Svbtle Theme (⭐154)

Editors / LaTeX

Authorea(Cloud): Easy to use UI. Supports both Markdown and LaTeX.

Editors / Markdown

Dillinger(Cloud): Markdown editor but no math mode.

Mindmap / LaTeX

Mind Manager

XMind

Docear

KityMinder By Baidu (⭐4.3k) : Chinese Interface

my-mind: repo here (⭐3.2k).

beautiful Mind: repo here (⭐116)

mindmaps: repo here (⭐2.6k)

jsmind (⭐3k)

jsmind

mindmaps (⭐2.6k)

Concept Map and Diagrams / LaTeX

ProcessOn: all kinds of diagrams

Online Load and Edit / LaTeX

slides.com: Easy to use with remote controlled page presentation.

Strut (⭐1.7k)

Impressionist (⭐629)

hovercraft (⭐1.5k)

Use The Source / HTML+CSS+JS

Impress.js: more about it impress wiki page (⭐37k).

Jimpress: A jQuery version of impress.js

Reveal.js (⭐64k)

CSSS (⭐1.7k)

Scrolldeck (⭐676)

Deck.js (⭐5.4k)

Shower (⭐4.8k)

Flowtime.js (⭐1.3k)

Slides (⭐496)

The Power of SVG / HTML+CSS+JS

ext-sozi (⭐28)

Softwares / HTML+CSS+JS

Mathematica: One Software to Rule Them All

iPython Notebook (Python): a useful tool for inline calculation, making graphs and writing notes.
- wakari.io is a comercial one mostly aimed for data analysis.
- jiffylab (⭐186) is an open source one but not that well done.
- supervised-ipython-nbserver (⭐6) is a multiuser version of notebook using Django/Pinax.

Matlab

Scientific Computing / HTML+CSS+JS

Python
- scipy: scientific computing made easy
- SnakeViz: A nice tool for python debugging and performance improvement.

Julia

Investigate Papers / HTML+CSS+JS

Paperscape: Finding interesting papers.

SciRate: An front-end for arXiv with rates from readers.

Get Yourself A Citable Code for Anything / HTML+CSS+JS

Zenodo: Make anything from GitHub citable by getting a DOI code here.

Open Science / HTML+CSS+JS

Open Science Framework: A open science tool with a lot of integrations.

Pacifier / HTML+CSS+JS

iSerenity: multiple choices but not that good (just my feeling).

Natural Sound player: many natural sounds, cool.

NatureSoundsFor.Me: make your own track, so many kinds of sounds.

White.Noise: several different tracks

ambient mixer: make ambient sound easily

white noise mp3s: listen and download

Open Licenses / HTML+CSS+JS

Open Definition: Read the license here and pick the one you like.

Data Visualization / HTML+CSS+JS

Highcharts (js): Line charts, area charts, column and bar charts, pie charts, scatter and bubble charts and more.

Flot (jQuery)

Raphaël (js)

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (js)

Paper.js (js)

matplotlib (⭐2k)

ggplot for python

plot.ly: Internet required, interactive plotting.

bokeh: Internet required, interactive plotting.

Symbols / HTML+CSS+JS

Detexify: find out what the symbol is by drawing online

References / HTML+CSS+JS

Math into Type: This is a great book for math related typography. This is copyright material. Please DO NOT redistribute.

Terminal / HTML+CSS+JS

plot in terminal (⭐1.8k)

asciinema: Command line recording.

bashplot (⭐1.8k): plot in terminal.

Free Multimedia / HTML+CSS+JS

Unsplash: Free high resolution images.

3. Awesome Laravel

Popular Packages / Developer Tools

IDE Helper (⭐13k) - Generates a helper file for IDE auto-completion

Popular Packages / Testing & Debugging

Debug Bar (⭐15k) - Integrates PHP Debug Bar with Laravel

Laravel 5 Log Viewer (⭐2.9k) - Log viewer

Popular Packages / Authentication & Authorization

JWT Auth (⭐11k) - JSON Web Token authentication for APIs

OAuth2 Server Laravel (⭐2.4k) - OAuth 2.0 authorization server and resource server

Socialite (⭐5.2k) - OAuth authentication with Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.

Popular Packages / Utilities

Bootstrapper (⭐565) - Set of classes to create Bootstrap 3 markup

Eloquent Sluggable (⭐3.5k) - Create slugs for Eloquent models

Laravel Markdown (⭐1.2k) - CommonMark markdown parser

Laravel Messenger (⭐2.2k) - User messaging system

Laravel Stats Tracker (⭐2.8k) - Gather information from requests to identify and store

noCAPTCHA (⭐339) - Helper for Google's new noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA)

Revisionable (⭐2.3k) - Create a revision history for Eloquent models

Teamwork (⭐967) - User to team associations with an invite system

Validating (⭐951) - Trait for validating Eloquent models

Popular Packages / Databases, ORMs, Migrations & Seeding

ClosureTable (⭐443) - Closure table pattern implementation

iSeed (⭐2.4k) - Generate a new seed file from an existing database table

Laravel MongoDB (⭐6.2k) - Eloquent model and query builder with support for MongoDB

Migrations Generator (⭐3.3k) - Generate migrations from an existing database

Popular Packages / Search

Elasticquent (⭐1.3k) - Elasticsearch for Eloquent models

Searchable (⭐2k) - Trait that adds a simple search function to Eloquent models

Popular Packages / APIs

ApiGuard (⭐691) - Allow API authentication with API keys

Dingo API (⭐9.3k) - Multi-purpose toolkit for developing RESTful APIs

Popular Packages / Tasks, Commands and Scheduling

Dispatcher (⭐1.1k) - Scheduler for Artisan commands

Popular Packages / Optimization

Laravel HTMLMin (⭐988) - Blade/HTML/CSS/javascript minifier

Popular Packages / Third-party Service Integration

Laravel DigitalOcean (⭐418) - DigitalOceanV2 bridge

Laravel GitHub (⭐529) - PHP GitHub API bridge

4. Awesome Data Engineering

Datasets / Realtime

Eventsim (⭐480) - Event data simulator. Generates a stream of pseudo-random events from a set of users, designed to simulate web traffic.

5. Awesome Job Boards

Big Data

DataJobs.com

Programming / Perl

The Perl Job Site

Programming / PHP

Drupal Jobs

LaraJobs

Programming / Python

Python Job Board

6. Rbooks

Beginner Books

R Inferno [Online] Free

"If you are using R and you think you’re in hell, this is a map for you."

This is a great introduction to several aspects of R programming. Loading data into R, iterating over data with loops & logic statements, author even touches on creating packages. Nice and pretty thorough book on R.

7. Awesome Emails

Templates / Misc

Grunt Email Boilerplate (⭐287) - A Grunt template to create emails.

Responsive Email Patterns - A collection of patterns & modules for responsive emails.

Articles / Misc

Email Design Workflow - An email design workflow by By Lee Munroe.

Design / Misc

Stylecampaign - I looked at the navigation of 50 responsive retail emails. Here is a breakdown of the patterns I discovered.

Blogs / Misc

Litmus Blog

Stylecampaign Blog

Testing / Misc

Grunt Litmus - Send email tests to Litmus with grunt.

Gulp Litmus - Send email tests to Litmus with gulp.

8. Awesome Jvm

Bytecode

Byte Buddy - Code generation library creating Java classes at runtime without the help of a compiler.

Network

SimianArmy (⭐7.9k) - Resiliency tool that helps ensure that your applications can tolerate random instance failures.

Profilers

honest-profiler (⭐1.2k) - Sampling JVM profiler without the safepoint sample bias.

Runtimes

jvmkill (⭐160) - Agent that forcibly terminates the JVM when it is unable to allocate memory or create a thread.

Virtual Machines

jvm.go (⭐3.4k) - A JVM written in Go.

9. Awesome Cpp

Debug

UnitTest++ (⭐543) - A lightweight unit testing framework for C++. [MIT/X Consortium license]

10. Tips

Deploying git tracked subfolder to gh-pages

git subtree push --prefix subfolder_name origin gh-pages

Adding a project to repo using subtree

git subtree add --prefix=<directory_name>/<project_name> --squash [email protected]:<username>/<project_name>.git master

Get latest changes in your repo for a linked project using subtree

git subtree pull --prefix=<directory_name>/<project_name> --squash [email protected]:<username>/<project_name>.git master

11. Awesome Computer Vision

Object Detection / Localization & Mapping:

ReInspect

12. Awesome Opengl

Books

Computer Graphics by John F. Hughes, et al. - Computer Graphics is indeed a must for anyone being involved in the design and implementation of Computer Graphics algorithms. However, this is not a OpenGL focused book, but contains valuable demonstrations of the technology.

OpenGL ES 3.0 Programming Guide by Dan Ginsburg, et al. - It presents all the necessary information to use the OpenGL ES 3.0 API in a clear manner.

13. Awesome Git Addons

git-imerge

imerge start

$ git imerge start --name=next --goal=merge --first-parent 4.0
Attempting automerge of 1-1...success.
Attempting automerge of 1-29...success.
Attempting automerge of 1-44...success.
Attempting automerge of 1-51...success.

imerge continue

$ git add --all
$ git commit
[imerge/next e442618] imerge 'next': manual merge 10-26
$ git imerge continue
Merge has been recorded for merge 10-26.
Attempting automerge of 10-27...success.
Attempting automerge of 10-42...failure.
Attempting automerge of 10-34...failure.
Attempting automerge of 10-30...success.
Recording autofilled block MergeState('next', tip1='master', tip2='4.0', goal='merge')[18:20,34:58].
Merge is complete!

imerge finish

$ git imerge finish
Previous HEAD position was fcbe161... imerge 'next': automatic merge 19-57
Switched to branch 'next'
[next 23362e6] Merge 4.0 into master (using imerge)
 Date: Wed Sep 2 10:59:56 2015 +1000

imerge diagram

$ git imerge diagram
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*????????...-------+
*????????.*|#???????

imerge list

$ git imerge list
* next

imerge init

$ git imerge init --name=next --goal=merge --first-parent 4.0

imerge record

$ git imerge record
Merge has been recorded for merge 10-26.
Attempting automerge of 10-27...success.
Attempting automerge of 10-42...failure.
Attempting automerge of 10-34...failure.

imerge autofill

$ git imerge autofill
Attempting automerge of 1-1...success.
Attempting automerge of 1-29...success.
Attempting automerge of 1-44...success.

imerge simplify

$ git imerge simplify
Previous HEAD position was 4d19598... imerge 'next': automatic merge 20-57
Switched to branch 'next'
[next 6c308aa] Merge 4.0 into master (using imerge)
 Date: Wed Sep 2 13:37:31 2015 +1000

imerge remove

$ git imerge remove

git-issue

imerge reparent

$ git imerge reparent
67ebc0e6517ac791de6699453b71d2c7fd81ffcd

14. Amas

Ask these people anything!

Justin Miller (⭐0) - Mobile lead at Mapbox, formerly Code Sorcery Workshop (Pukka/Meerkat), photographer, traveler.

15. Awesome Sketch

Templates & UI Kits / Nice-to-have 👍

Responsive Web Design Template (⭐27), a template with Font-Awesome and Bootstrap UI Kit as symbols for fast web design.

Sketch iOS Templates (⭐837), a collection of many iOS templates.

Teracy Wireframe Kit (⭐1.3k), created to help speed up your wireframing process. Includes basics UI elements for web, mobile and other devices.

16. Awesome R

Integrated Development Environments

TextMate + r.tmblundle (⭐25) - Add-on package for TextMate 1/2.

Deducer - A Menu driven data analysis GUI with a spreadsheet like data editor.

HTML Widgets

networkD3 - D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R.

threejs (⭐295) - Interactive 3D scatter plots and globes.

Reproducible Research

xtable - Export tables to LaTeX or HTML.

Parallel Computing

parallel - R started with release 2.14.0 which includes a new package parallel incorporating (slightly revised) copies of packages multicore and snow.

Language API

RinRuby - a Ruby library that integrates the R interpreter in Ruby.

RcppOctave (⭐17) - Seamless Interface to Octave and Matlab.

Database Management

RHive (⭐123) - R extension facilitating distributed computing via Apache Hive.

Natural Language Processing

topicmodels - Topic modeling interface to the C code developed by by David M. Blei for Topic Modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and Correlated Topics Models (CTM)).

syuzhet - Extracts sentiment from text using three different sentiment dictionaries.

Network Analysis

network - Basic tools to manipulate relational data in R.

sna - Basic network measures and visualization tools.

networkDynamic - Support for dynamic, (inter)temporal networks.

ndtv - Tools to construct animated visualizations of dynamic network data in various formats.

statnet - The project behind many R network analysis packages.

ergm - Exponential random graph models in R.

latentnet - Latent position and cluster models for network objects.

tnet - Network measures for weighted, two-mode and longitudinal networks.

Other Interpreters

fastR - FastR is an implementation of the R Language in Java atop Truffle and Graal.

Books / Paid

R in Action - This book aims at all levels of users, with sections for beginning, intermediate and advanced R ranging from "Exploring R data structures" to running regressions and conducting factor analyses.