Newsletter #36

It’s TechThursday again: here’s what we’ve been excited about over the past week!

• Web Fundamentals, A handbook for best practices (by Google)

• Object schema description language and validator for JavaScript objects

• Hardware development for software developers: Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript, node-compatible and with Wifi built in.

• Cool slides about Protractor, E2E test framework for Angular apps

• ECMAScript 6 in Node.JS

• Javascript Promises… in wicked detail

• boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distributionmade specifically to run Docker containers.

• Faster AngularJS Rendering (AngularJS and ReactJS)

• (old) The restart page

• Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04: The best Ubuntu desktop ever

• Solr 4.8.0 released

• How Gilt uses Grunt

• Add AJAX to your web application using simple, declarative HTML attributes

• Generate docs from markdown files

• 21 things that became obsolete this decade

• Gulp as a Development Web Server

• Skype leaves Sensitive User Data Unencrypted Locally On Computers

• PHP: do it better!