Newsletter #80

Howdy people, it’s #TechThursday at #namshi, again! Hope you missed us ;)

First things first:

We’re helping to kick start a new cross-tech community here in Dubai:

DUBYTES, this is the name, met yesterday for the 1st time and James Whelton gave an interesting quick introduction to React. We’ll meet every 1st Wednesday of the month, and if you love technology as much as we do: drop by and join us for a nice discussion. Feel free to ping us on twitter to know the next venue: speech proposals are welcome too! More news to come on this!

And here is the traditional “selecta” of links our team found interesting this week around the interwebs, enjoy:

• A 90 minute overview of ECMAScript 6

• Find out what websites are Built With

• Loupe is a little visualisation to help you understand how JavaScript’s call stack/event loop/callback queue

• open data in SF municipality with APIs

• Form, Command, and Model Validation

• PHPunit @before Annotations and traits for code-reuse

• A case for weak type hints only inPHP7

• Vagrant, NFS and NPM

• io.js starts ARM support! check out the changelog:

• You Have to Know When to Stop

• Javascript: Module or module

• Forbers – What Is The Most Valuable Programming Language To Know For The Future And Why?

• Emberjs – Glimmer Engine

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

• Google is bringing Chrome Remote Desktop to Chromebooks next

• Inspect Elements On Android’s Internet Browser

• What are the most interesting HTML/JS/DOM/CSS hacks that most web developers don’t know about?

• Wiki creator reinvents collaboration, again

• Ultra-simple wrapper around XMLHttpRequest

• Why did Netflix use #NGINX and FreeBSD to build their own CDN?

• The 5 Pillars of a Solid Front-End

• How we built the new BCC homepage

• Side projects… Redis is now 6 years old

• highlight.js: syntax highlighting for the Web

• Guiding Object-Oriented Design with Tests

• Effective Doctrine2: Performance Tips for Symfony2 Developers

• React JS Tutorial and Guide to the Gotchas

• Docker Provisioner

• Socketplane excited to be jining docker to collaborate with networking ecosystem

• Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster

• Elasticsearch query optimization

• Quick and Dirty Autocomplete with Elasticsearch Completion Suggest

• Unofficial Relay FAQ

• Elementor, an improved element explorer for protractor

• Introduction to Facebook’s Flux architecture

• An Angular2 Todo App: First look at App Development in Angular2

• How Data Service DAAS Revolutionizing Marketing

• API integration in Python

• paypal acquires paydiant

• SQL pass conference with data science

Aaaand that’s all folks, see you next week! :)