Awesome List Updates on Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2015

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1. Awesome Unity

Tutorials

Ray Wenderlich's Tutorials - Beginner and mid-level tutorials focused on learning Unity features or creating small example games.

2. Awesome Ocaml

Databases

Bindings
- Dbm — A binding to the NDBM/GDBM Unix "databases".
- Mongo.ml – An OCaml driver for Mongodb
- PG'OCaml — A type-safe interface to PostgreSQL in pure OCaml.
  - ppx_pgsql (⭐52) – A syntax extension for embedded SQL queries using PG'OCaml.
- PostgreSQL-OCaml — An interface to PostgreSQL through the C API (libpq).
- SQLite3 (⭐110) — OCaml bindings to the SQLite3 database.
- Sqlite3EZ — Thin wrapper for SQLite3 with a simplified interface.
- ocaml-redis (⭐74) – Redis bindings for OCaml.
- mysql – Bindings to libmysqlclient for interacting with MySQL databases.
- pgx (⭐121) – A pure OCaml PostgreSQL client library.
- mysql_protocol (⭐14) – Implementation of MySQL Protocol with the Bitstring library.

3. Awesome Linux Containers

Security / Tools

bane (⭐1.1k)
Custom AppArmor profile generator for docker containers.

4. Awesome Swift

Key Value Store

Prephirences (⭐566) - Manage application preferences, NSUserDefaults, iCloud, Keychain and more.

Logging / Barcode

XCGLogger (⭐3.9k) - Full featured & Configurable logging utility with log levels, timestamps, and line numbers.

5. Guides

6. Awesome Talks

Software Design

Evidence-Oriented Programming by Andreas Stefik [41:42]

7. Awesome Deep Learning

Table of Contents / Tutorials

TensorFlow Python Notebooks (⭐42k)

Researchers / Frameworks

Scikit Flow - Simplified interface for TensorFlow (mimicking Scikit Learn) (⭐3.2k)

Researchers / Miscellaneous

Proof of concept for loading Caffe models in TensorFlow (⭐2.8k)

YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

8. Awesome Beacon

Eddystone by Google

Google Developers Beacons Portal

Eddystone Protocol Specification & Tools (⭐3k)

Eddystone Validator (⭐3k)

iBeacon Resources by Apple

iBeacon for Developers

Getting Started with iBeacon (PDF)

iBeacon Artwork and Specifications

iBeacon for Developers

Google Glass & Beacons (⭐4)

PunchClock (⭐1.7k) An in/out tracking app for iOS 7+ that uses iBeacon and Geofencing.

LaunchHere for iOS - iBeacon based app shortcuts

Swift

Swift based iBeacon App Development with CoreLocation on Apple iOS 7/8

HiBeacons (⭐1.2k) A nice iBeacon demo app in Swift.

Objective-C

Generic iBeacon Management and Utilities by KinveyLabs (⭐186)

Replicates detecting and broadcasting iBeacons in the background (⭐380)

Beacon Development

BeaconKeeper (⭐140) The simple library for locating iBeacons in background

Bluetooth LE Library for Android (⭐845)

Beacon Scanner Apps

Beacon Scanner & Logger Android app that scans for BLE Beacons/iBeacons and logs the results to a file

Stackoverflow Q&A

iBeacon advertising and scanning in a Titanium module (⭐138)

iBeacon Scanning Utility App for OSX (⭐493)

Bluetooth Smart & BLE Tools

nRF Master Control Panel (BLE) nRF Master Control Panel is a powerful generic tool that allows you to scan and explore your Bluetooth Smart (BLE) devices and communicate with them.

LightBlue Mac OSX (or iOS) LightBlue can test all of your devices that use Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart, or Bluetooth Light).

BlueSpeed for iOS by Punch Through Runs a Bluetooth LE speed test between 2 iOS devices

Web Bluetooth API

EMMicroelectronics

9. Awesome Dotnet

Testing

ExpressionToCode (⭐155) - Use plain C# syntax in assertions that include both the expression expression and subexpression values in the failure message.

10. Awesome Algorithms

Online Judges / Randomized Algorithms

ShareCode.io - Online Judge and contest host with a lot of algorithmic problems in the archive to practice.

11. Awesome Tech Videos

Programming Languages / Ruby

React.js on Rails

12. Awesome R

Parallel Computing

ddR (⭐117) - Provides distributed data structures and simplifies distributed computing in R.

13. Awesome Javascript

Scroll / Other

Clusterize.js (⭐7.2k) - Tiny vanilla JS plugin to display large data sets easily.

14. Awesome PICO 8

Contents / Tools

pico2png (⭐22) - Spritesheet extraction written in perl.

Pico8Utils (⭐51) - Compilation of lua scripts based on the unix philosophy for working with .p8 files.

15. Awesome Appsec

Websites

Enigma Group

Where hackers and security experts come to train.

16. Awesome Postgres

Contents / CLI

psql2csv (⭐179) - Run a query in psql and output the result as CSV

17. Awesome Influxdb

Unofficial

cl-influxdb (⭐21) - Common Lisp interface to the Time Series Database InfluxDB

erflux (⭐29) - InfluxDB client for Erlang

influent.rs (⭐44) - InfluxDB Rust driver

InfluxDB-Client-LabVIEW (⭐17) - LabVIEW client for InfluxDB

instream (⭐207) - InfluxDB driver for Elixir

node-influx-udp (⭐18) - Write to InfluxDB using its UDP interface

scala-influxdb-client (⭐123) - Asynchronous InfluxDB client for Scala

Projects / Dedicated

mesos-influxdb-collector (⭐16) - Lightweight mesos stats collector for InfluxDB

mqforward (⭐73) - MQTT to influxdb forwarder

ntp_checker (⭐3) - compares internal NTP sources and warns if the offset between servers exceeds a definable (fraction of) seconds

Projects / Non-dedicated

cloudwatch-sender (⭐53) - Send metrics to InfluxDB/Graphite from Amazon Cloudwatch

internet_data_usage (⭐2) - Python based application to pull data plan usage for different carriers such as Telus and Koodo

jmxtrans (⭐1.7k) - Effectively the missing connector between speaking to a JVM via JMX on one end and whatever logging / monitoring / graphing package that you can dream up on the other end.

Libraries / Non-dedicated

crow-metrics (⭐18) - small metrics collector for node servers

Libraries / Hooks

go-metrics-influxdb (⭐69) - A reporter for the go-metrics library (⭐3.3k) which will post the metrics to InfluxDB

logrus_influxdb (⭐27) - InfluxDB Hook for Logrus (⭐22k)

Plugins / Hooks

embulk-output-influxdb (⭐2) - InfluxDB output plugin for Embulk (⭐1.7k)

exometer_influxdb (⭐36) - Exometer (⭐520) reporter for InfluxDB

influx-nagios-plugin (⭐30) - Nagios plugin for querying monitoring stats from InfluxDB

kafka-influxdb (⭐218) - A Kafka consumer for InfluxDB written in Python

logstash-output-influxdb (⭐53) - Community-maintained Logstash plugin to output metrics to InfluxDB

mod-influxdb (⭐13) - Shinken module for exporting data to InfluxDB

statsd-influxdb-backend (⭐172) - A naive InfluxDB backend for StatsD

Other tools / Hooks

influx-alert (⭐32) - A tool to query InfluxDB and send alerts based on a YAML config

Provisioning InfluxDB / Hooks

influxdb-release (⭐2) - Experimental BOSH release for InfluxDB

Queries / Hooks

influxer (⭐114) - InfluxDB ActiveRecord-style

18. BEM Resources

Articles

Expressive BEM with Sass: a different approach - Anders Hansen

Expressive BEM with Sass Part II: A first draft of mixins - Anders Hansen

19. Awesome Remote Job

Articles & Posts

Communication for Distributed Teams

Hiring Secrets Of A Distributed Company

How Working at Home Works (For Us)

Learning From Distributed Companies

Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart

Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective

What is a Distributed Company?

Yahoo, Best Buy, and Telecommuting: Advice From A Distributed Company

Companies with "remote DNA"

Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.

20. Awesome Answers

Functional Programming

What are some myths about functional programming and functional programming languages?

21. Awesome Bigdata

Data Visualization

Plotly.js (⭐16k) The open source javascript graphing library that powers plotly.

22. Awesome Computer Vision

Simultaneous localization and mapping / Tracking/Odometry:

LVR-KinFu: kinfu_remake based Large Scale KinectFusion with online reconstruction

23. Awesome Elixir

Algorithms and Data structures

luhn (⭐16) - Luhn algorithm in Elixir.

Applications

Queerlink (⭐36) - A simple yet efficient URL shortening service written in Elixir.

Authentication

ueberauth (⭐1.5k) - An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications.

ueberauth_facebook (⭐74) - Facebook OAuth2 Strategy for Überauth.

ueberauth_github (⭐101) - A GitHub strategy for Überauth.

ueberauth_google (⭐157) - A Google strategy for Überauth.

ueberauth_identity (⭐79) - A simple username/password strategy for Überauth.

ueberauth_slack (⭐23) - A Slack strategy for Überauth.

Build Tools

rebar3_diameter_compiler (⭐5) - Compile diameter .dia files in rebar3 projects.

HTTP

scrape (⭐326) - Scrape any website, article or RSS/Atom Feed with ease.

Third Party APIs

elixir_ipfs_api (⭐47) - IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) API client for Elixir.

exdesk (⭐4) - Elixir library for the Desk.com API.

Utilities

crutches (⭐125) - Utility library for Elixir, designed to complement the standard library bundled with the language.

erlsh (⭐61) - Family of functions and ports involving interacting with the system shell, paths and external programs.

24. Tips

Show helpful guides that come with Git

git help -g

25. Awesome Fuse

Community

Forums - The official Fuse forums.

Twitter - The official Fuse Twitter account.

26. Toolsforactivism

Software as a service:

Change.org Petition site. Chose a target, make a petition, send it to your friends. If they get traction, Change.org has staff that can provide support. (They also have org accounts, that allow groups to do branded pages and export contact info of signers.)