Newsletter #55

It’s TechThursday again!

News from the IT Team:

In a few days Hallal will attend Symfony Live 2014 in London. He also submitted a talk, called frontend-first, to Confoo – a conference that will take place in Canada on February 2015. Please vote for his talk as ConFoo democratically selects talks based on community votes.

Cirpo is back from the USA, where he attended the Northeast PHP 2014 conference. He also gave a presentation called “PHP is the king, Nodejs is the prince, Lua is the fool”, check out the slides:

PHP is the King, nodejs is the Prince and Lua is the fool

But what has the team been looking at over the past week? Below you’ll find the usual list of interesting articles we discovered in the past 7 days.

• Cross domain storage, an alternative di XAtuh

• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

• JavaScript to PHP source-to-source transpiler

• Isomorphic SPA pages

• How a new HTML element will make the Web faster

• Write code everyday

• What is next for Javascript

• Why now is the best time to learn JavaScript

• A real time twitter clone in 300 lines of AngularJS

• Sinatra with Docker using a private github repo

• CoreOS Now Available On DigitalOcean!

• How Docker Fits Into The Current DevOps Landscape

• A little library for checking JSON by rules

• PioneerJs – A framework agnostic e2e javascript testing

• node-os is the first operating system powered by npm

• How to Git Pretty: A Nice Chart on how to change Git History

• Another look at incremental and iterative development

• A List of 5 Million ‘Gmail Passwords’ Leaked, But There’s No Need to Panic

• Container Technology: Integration Testing with Docker

• A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators

• The hidden structure of the Apple keynote

• I disagree with Alan Turing and Daniel Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence

• cAdvisor – Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers

• Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1

• Push our limits – reliability testing at Twitter