Newsletter #53

BOOM! As mentioned in the last newsletter, we were working on four new open souce libraries and two of them are already out !!!

• shisha, smoke tests made easy! A cool nodejs library by Shidhin and Hallal that let’s you write smoke tests in an easy way.

• node-dock, a sweet remedy for all your docker problems! Another node library by Hossam and Lucio that has an handy command (dock) that plugs on top of your usual docker commands adding some sugar and some handy functionality on top of it.

• Even Alex released another tiny and cool node lib called node-file-ensure, a small filesystem utility to make sure a file is there

• Lucio also wrote a post detailing his first months here at Namshi: check it out!

• Last but not least, Geshan on his vacation back home, has improvised this talk at PHP Developers Meetup Nepal on message queues (AMQP) with RabbitMQ and Symfony http://mq-talk.herokuapp.com/

And here we are as usual with a list of interesting links to keep you busy during the upcoming weekend:

• A modern reverse proxy for node

• Open Source ain’t Charity

• Ship it! A story of continuous delivery at theguardian.com

• Reviewing a team’s work and the way it is done at Gov.uk Design Services

• Plain Old #JavaScript Object Visualization

• Stop whatever you are doing and look at p6 of this paper

• Rocket Internet co-founder sees venture take off in Middle East

• V8’s memory mysteries

• 49ers’ stadium Wi-Fi served 25,000 concurrent users, 2.13TB in all

• Software Developers and Asperger’s Syndrome

• Docker Service Discovery Using Etcd and Haproxy

• Stellar: Fast database snapshot and restore tool for development

• Javascript optimization killers

• How I Hacked My Husband’s Programming Addiction

• programmming mantras to remember

• Facebook Unveils Its Load-Balancing System: Autoscale

• Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies

• Semantic Versioning Is Not the Solution

• The Plague of Methods and Frameworks

• Evolution of Docker and Its Impact on AWS – i build the cloud

• Uber opens up its API – and creates a new platform

• GlassWire Network Security Monitor & Firewall Tool

• Procrastination and Overcoming Programmer’s Block

• RTFM 0day in iOS apps: G+, Gmail, FB Messenger

• CodeFights – Become a Code Champion

• Hoa project, a cool set of PHP lib (they deserve more community involvement – i.e. tests are missing, own standards)

• Bubble.js: A 1.6K Solution to a Common Problem

• We love Symfony2… but we also love Agility and Node.js

• Agile software development methodologies and how to apply them

• website performance metrics

• A modern reverse proxy for node

• Mobile Angular UI