Awesome List Updates on May 02 - May 08, 2016

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1. Awesome Audio Visualization

Experiments

• Chrome Music Lab - Play with simple experiments and explore how music works.

• Glowsynth - just amazing! - Play with your mouse, Qwerty keyboad, or MIDI keyboard and watch as the lights dance to your music.

Libraries Visualization

• Processing - An open source programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities.

2. Awesome Rethinkdb

Community

• RethinkDB Blog

Community / Drivers

• RethinkDB JavaScript - Officially Supported JavaScript Driver.

• RethinkDB Dash (⭐854) - An advanced Node.js driver for RethinkDB with connection pool and Streams Support.

• RethinkDB Python - Officially Supported JavaScript Driver.

• RethinkDB Ruby - Officially Supported Ruby Driver.

• RethinkDB Java - Officially Supported Java Driver.

Community / ORM

• Maintainer: Michel

• Maintainer: JS Data Organization

• Remodel (⭐195) - Very simple yet powerful and extensible Object Document Mapper for RethinkDB, written in Python.

• Rethink (⭐16) - Python RethinkDB Object Mapper Interface Inspired by Appengine NDB.

• Maintainer: Kevin Amerson

Community / Technology Integrations

• Maintainer: Hao-kang Den

• Hapi RethinkDB CRUD (⭐3) - CRUD handlers for Hapi interaction with Rethinkdb.

• Maintainer: Thomas Eng

• Maintainer: Matt Wielbut

• Maintainer: Andrei Horak

• flask-rethinkdb (⭐27) - Adds RethinkDB support to Flask.

• RabbitMQ - Integrating RethinkDB with RabbitMQ

Community / Extension Libraries

• Maintainer: @armenfilipetyan

3. Awesome Tap

Documentation / Python

• Wikipedia

4. Awesome Ava

Videos

• JavaScript Air episode with the AVA team

Packages

• ava-codemods (⭐69) - Codemods that simplifies upgrading to newer versions.

• vscode-ava (⭐69) - Snippets for Visual Studio Code.

• vim-ava-snippets (⭐21) - Snippets for Vim.

• fly-ava (⭐14) - Run tests with Fly.

• start-ava (⭐8) - Run tests with Start.

• sigh-ava (⭐0) - Run tests with Sigh.

5. Awesome Aws

Open Source Repos / Lambda

• Tim-B/grunt-aws-lambda 🔥🔥 (⭐247) - Grunt plugin.

6. Creative Commons Media

Audio

• Incompetech - Royalty free music from Kevin MacLeod.

7. Awesome Artificial Intelligence

Organizations

• OpenAI

• Association For The Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

8. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Joe Lencioni (⭐1) - Building ImportJS (⭐519) and Diffux CI. Web infra at Airbnb.

9. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Testing

• PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.

10. Awesome Static Website Services

Code

• highlight.js - Syntax highlighting for the web.

E-Commerce / Provided by the Host

• Gumroad - An all-in-one solution to sell your work.

Search / Provided by the Host

• Algolia - Hosted Search API that delivers instant and relevant results from the first keystroke.

11. Awesome Stock Resources

Photography / Public Domain

• Good Free Photos - ©️ A large free stock photo site with thousands of public domain photos including landscapes, objects, animals, plants, textures, and many other free photos. All photos taken by the website owner.

Photography / CC0-license

• SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.

Photography / Custom License / Usage

• Designer Pics - ©️ Free photographs for personal and commercial by Jeshu John.

Fonts / Unspecified License

• Font Squirrel - Handpicked fonts free for commercial use.

How to Share / Icons Packages and Collections

• Share on Twitter

12. Awesome Electron

Closed Source / Other

• Freeter - Organizer for freelancers & creatives.

For Electron / Other

• electron-rebuild (⭐972) - Rebuild native Node.js modules against the currently installed Electron version.

13. Awesome Dotnet

Misc

• ReactJS.NET (⭐2.3k) - ReactJS.NET is a library that makes it easier to use Babel along with Facebook's React and JSX from C#.

14. Awesome Pascal

Serial port

• TComPort. [Delphi] Delphi/C++ Builder serial communications components. It is generally easy to use for basic Serial Communications purposes. // Seems abandoned since 2011

Single controls

• Delphi Chromium Embedded (⭐292). [Delphi] Embedding Chromium in Delphi, tested on Delphi 2010, XE, XE2, Delphi 7. // Several Chromium DLLs required

Database

• QDAC3 (SVN: svn://www.qdac.cc/QDAC3). [Delphi] Stands for quick data access components. Useful units such as QJson (easy to use json unit), QWorker (job delivery) etc. // Description and comments in Chinese, author is not good at English. Haven't tested this library by myself.

Other non-visual

• DHibernate (⭐6). [Delphi] Object Persistent Framework based on Hibernate and NHibernate for Delphi. // Abandoned since 2012

15. Awesome Mqtt

Visualization, Dashboards / Firmwares for ESP based Devices

• mqtt-svg-dash (⭐57) - Subscribe to MQTT, extract JSON from a message and make lights blink on an SVG page.

16. Awesome Pcaptools

Traffic Analysis/Inspection

• PacketQ (⭐385): A tool that provides a basic SQL-frontend to PCAP-files. Outputs JSON, CSV and XML and includes a build-in webserver with JSON-api and a nice looking AJAX GUI.

17. Awesome Network Analysis

Software / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• Lynks - Web-based tool for simple network analysis and visualization.

• OSoMe - Web-based platform to analyze social media data, including through Twitter-based and co-occurrence networks.

18. Awesome Geojson

operations

• geojson-multiply (⭐2): merge normal geojson features into one multi geometry type feature

19. Awesome R

Lists / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• RStudio Addins (⭐819) - List of RStudio addins.

20. Awesome Projects Boilerplates

GitHub

• GitHub Template Guidelines (⭐214) Collection of guidelines and boilerplate files for writing maintanable GitHub projects.

21. Awesome Jvm

Memory and concurrency

• Cap’n Proto - Insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system.

• protobuf - Google's data interchange format.

22. Awesome Vue

Resources / Tutorials

• Vue.js Screencast Series in Spanish on Styde.net

23. Awesome Crystal

Algorithms and Data structures

• crystalline (⭐127) - A collection of containers and algorithms

• multiset.cr (⭐4) - Implementation of a multiset

• radix (⭐101) - Radix Tree implementation

HTTP

• http2 (⭐93) - HTTP/2 Protocol Implementation

Template Engine

• crustache (⭐81) - {{Mustache}} for Crystal

24. Awesome Book Authoring

Self Publishing

• Self vs Professional Publishing - The pros and cons of each, plus a look at many of the options available for self publishing.

Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories

• Writing a Technical Book - Michael Foord shares his experience publishing with Apress.

25. Awesome D3

Maps / Third Party

• spam (⭐102) - Create maps with D3 and Canvas, easily

26. Awesome Json Datasets

More Awesome Lists

• Style Guides (⭐1k) (Programming Languages, Platforms, Frameworks)

27. Awesome Mad Science

browserify

• glslify (⭐2k) - npm modules compiled into WebGL shaders

28. Awesome Observables

Implementations

• zen-observable (⭐826)

• RxJS (⭐28k)

Packages

• any-observable (⭐65) - Support any Observable library and polyfill.

• is-observable (⭐35) - Check if a value is an Observable.

• observable-to-promise (⭐42) - Convert an Observable to a Promise.

• stream-to-observable (⭐73) - Convert a Node.js stream into an Observable.

• symbol-observable (⭐180) - Symbol.observable ponyfill.

• obsify (⭐41) - Observableify a callback-style function.

• localForage-observable (⭐82) - Observables for localForage.

Libraries

• Cycle.js - A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for cleaner code.

Articles

• The introduction to Reactive programming you've been missing - Reactive programming using Observables.

29. Awesome Tensorflow

Libraries

• TensorFlow-Slim (⭐75k) - High-level library for defining models

Blog posts

• TensorFlow for Poets - Goes over the implementation of TensorFlow

• Introduction to Scikit Flow - Simplified Interface to TensorFlow - Key Features Illustrated

Community

• Reddit

30. Awesome Relay

Starter Kits

• UniversalRelayBoilerplate (⭐713) Boilerplate + examples for React Native (iOS, Android), React (isomorphic, Material-UI), Relay, GraphQL, JWT, Node.js, Apache Cassandra.

31. Awesome Robotics

Companies

• Boston Dynamics robotics R&D company, creator of the state of the art Atlas and Spot robots

• iRobot manufacturer of the famous Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner

• Aldebaran Robotics creator of the NAO robot

• ABB Robotics the largest manufacturer of industrial robots

• KUKA Robotics major manufacturer of industrial robots targeted at factory automation

• FANUC industrial robots manufacturer with the biggest install base

• Rethink Robotics creator of the collaborative robot Baxter

Misc

• IEEE Spectrum Robotics robotics section of the IEEE Spectrum magazine

• MIT Technology Review Robotics robotics section of the MIT Technology Review magazine

• reddit robotics subreddit

32. Engineering Blogs

Companies / I companies

• Intel https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/

Individuals/Group Contributors / F individuals

• Filippo Valsorda https://blog.filippo.io/

33. Jquery Tips Everyone Should Know

Back to Top Button

By using the animate and scrollTop methods in jQuery you don't need a plugin to create a simple scroll-to-top animation:

// Back to top
$('.container').on('click', '.back-to-top', function (e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  $('html, body').animate({scrollTop: 0}, 800);
});

<!-- Create an anchor tag -->
<div class="container">
  <a href="#" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a>
</div>

Changing the scrollTop value changes where you wants the scrollbar to land. All you're really doing is animating the body of the document throughout the course of 800 milliseconds until it scrolls to the top of the document.

[!NOTE] Watch for some buggy behavior (⭐317) with scrollTop.

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Make Two Divs the Same Height

Sometimes you'll want two divs to have the same height no matter what content they have in them:

$('.div').css('min-height', $('.main-div').height());

This example sets the min-height which means that it can be bigger than the main div but never smaller. However, a more flexible method would be to loop over a set of elements and set height to the height of the tallest element:

var $columns = $('.column');
var height = 0;
$columns.each(function () {
  if ($(this).height() > height) {
    height = $(this).height();
  }
});
$columns.height(height);

If you want all columns to have the same height:

var $rows = $('.same-height-columns');
$rows.each(function () {
  $(this).find('.column').height($(this).height());
});

[!NOTE] This can be done several ways in CSS but depending on what your needs are, knowing how to do this in jQuery is handy.

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Chain Plugin Calls

jQuery allows for the "chaining" of plugin method calls to mitigate the process of repeatedly querying the DOM and creating multiple jQuery objects. Let's say the following snippet represents your plugin method calls:

$('#elem').show();
$('#elem').html('bla');
$('#elem').otherStuff();

This could be vastly improved by using chaining:

$('#elem')
  .show()
  .html('bla')
  .otherStuff();

An alternative is to cache the element in a variable (prefixed with $):

var $elem = $('#elem');
$elem.hide();
$elem.html('bla');
$elem.otherStuff();

Both chaining and caching methods in jQuery are best practices that lead to shorter and faster code.

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34. Awesome Elixir

Logging

• logglix (⭐11) - A logger backend for posting errors to Loggly.

ORM and Datamapping

• ddb_client (⭐11) - DalmatinerDB client.

Third Party APIs

• dublin_bus_api (⭐2) - Access to the Real Time Passenger Information (RTPI) for Dublin Bus services.

Websites

• Elixir Quiz - Weekly programming problems to help you learn Elixir.

35. Awesome Pyramid

Admin interface

• Websauna - a full stack application framework for Pyramid

Authentication

• pyramid_ipauth (⭐11) - Pyramid authentication policy based on remote ip address.

Services

• pyramid_sms (⭐6) - SMS services for Pyramid web framework.

36. Awesome Swift

StackView / Barcode

• StackViewController (⭐868) - Simplify the use of UIStackView.

• TZStackView (⭐1.2k) - An iOS9 UIStackView layout component re-implemented for iOS 7 and 8.

Utility / Barcode

• SwiftyUtils (⭐546) - All the reusable code that we need in each project.

37. Awesome Remote Job

Job boards aggregators

• Work Remotely - Crawls and curates many job board feeds for remote positions

38. Awesome Micro Npm Packages

Modules / Stream

• through2-map-promise (⭐3) - A small promise-based wrapper for through2.

• pump (⭐895) - pipe streams together and close all of them if one of them closes.

Modules / Other

• is-fqdn (⭐22) - Check if a string represent a fully qualified domain name.

39. Awesome Knockout

Plugins and libraries

• Projections (⭐4) - Adds lodash FP chainability to observable arrays

• Router (⭐67) - Router for single-page apps

Components

• Testing (⭐15) - Helpful utilities for TDD + Knockout.js

40. Colorful

Color Palettes / Web App

• Color Lisa - Color palette masterpieces of the world’s greatest artists.

Articles / Web App

• Principles of Color and the Color Wheel

• Introduction to Color Theory

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