Newsletter #44

TechThursday is here folks and we have two special mentions today.

Mohamad Hallal wrote an awesome post about his pitfalls as junior developer

Lucio released a very cool personal project: Carmen Sandiego. This nodejs app let’s you visualize your Foursquare checkins on a world map! Check the dedicated blog post

Here the list of other useful links of the week:

• Introducing Ampersand.js, a highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps

• On the death of Map-Reduce at Google

• Handling errors in asynchronous flow

• Javascript implementation of common data structures

• A functional reactive language for interactive applications

• Passwords in Plain text

• Google Web Started Kit

• Recovering deleted files using only grep

• Benefits of post-mortems for incidents, the need to make them blameless – and the knock on effect that has on an organisation’s culture

• Why it’s important to have real users, in this case systems administrators, on the product team

• A Short List of DevOps Tools

• Should Everyone Learn to Code?

• Gaufrette: a PHP library that provides a filesystem abstraction layer

• Bring High Performance Into Your PHP App

• Random tricks when using AngularJS

• Long Term Web Semantics

• Google’s New Web Starter Kit Is A Boilerplate For Multi-Screen Web Development

• Find out about the latest product and platform innovations at Google I/O 2014

• Quick Tip: set relative URLs with the “base” Tag

• Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 6 – Attacking Complex Methods

• RESTing with Symfony 2

• Code for maintainability so the next developer doesn’t hate you

• Docker: How speed up deployment involving npm install and bower install