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#083 - sep 7th 2014

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This week there is some progress on the future version of Green Ruby website, you can check https://github.com/greenruby/grn-js if you are curious. And if you want to contribute, you are welcome to join us (just send a mail to mose@greenruby.org). Thanks Quentin, Greg, Jared, Xenor and Pooyan that already jumped in.

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.
The 100 Greatest Free Fonts for 2014 design
All kinds of typefaces which can be seamlessly integrated into any design.
Tab Styles Inspiration css3
A small collection of styles for tabs.
20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers sep 5 design
A small collection of styles for tabs.
What are the best programming fonts? tool
Around 50 fonts reviewed.

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.
Gridlover css3
The tool to establish a typographic system with modular scale and vertical rhythm.
Zerotier ops
Network Virtualization Everywhere.
Kobra tool
Collaborative code editor, plus video and voice.

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.
Kitematic ops
The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac (with a UI, even).
Impulse mobile
Library for building dynamic physics based interactions, with a focus on mobile web.
Neo4j.rb 3.0.rc rb
Ruby driver for the Neo4j graph database.
Gravit design
New and fresh thinking open source design tool (written in HTML5/js/css).
Consul 0.4 ops
Solution for service discovery, configuration, and orchestration.
AMCSS css3
Use HTML attributes and their values rather than classes for styling elements.
Transcrypt tool
Transparently encrypt files within a git repository.
AngularStrap js
AngularJS 1.2+ native directives for Bootstrap 3.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...
Rails Authorization sep 1 rb
How to control access in a Rails application, with Pundit or others.
SOA and Rails - Overview sep 1 rb
Review of all the ways to implement a scalable SOA architecture.
Git: The Safety Net for Your Projects sep 2 tool
Various insights about git, and special attention to branches, reset vs revert, bisect.
SOA and Rails - using HTTP sep 2 rb
Part 2 of this collection of great articles about SOA, this one focus on HTTP exchanges.
SOA and Rails - using AMQP sep 3 rb
Part 3 of the articles about SOA, now checking the AMQP way.
Service objects in Rails sep 3 rb
To design clean and maintainable code.
Back to Basics: SOLID sep 3 rb
Five fundamental principles that help engineers write maintainable code.
Verifying Doubles in RSpec 3 sep 3 rb
Create test doubles that verify themselves as conforming to the same interface as a 'real' object.
SOA and Rails - Introducing RackRabbit sep 4 rb
Part 4 about SOA, with a custom MQ solution, alternative to bunny.
Different controllers for different contexts sep 4 rb
Making your application easier to understand, maintain and grow.
Drop-in Responsive Styles With Sass sep 4 css3
Clever usage of a +responsive mixin in SASS.
An Introduction to WebGL sep 5 html5
From zero to a working 3D application, how the various concepts work and why.
How to design APIs that last sep 5 web
Initial design principles which help building long lived APIs.

Watch

Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ...
SysadminCasts #36 (4m) sep 1 ops
CLI Monday: column and tr.
AtoZ CSS: Required (5m) sep 2 css3
Using :required and other state-based pseudo classes.

Listen

What could be heard last week ..
Giant robots #114 (25m) sep 1 tool
Offer Value First (Ryan Delk).
CodePen 21 (36m) sep 2 css3
Planning new features.
Web platform #9 (1h03) sep 3 js
Web Accessibility for JavaScript Components and Custom Elements.
Ruby Rogues 172 (1h16) sep 3 rb
Extreme Deployment with Badri Janakiraman and Florian Motlik.
Javascript Jabber 124 (1h44) sep 3 js
The Origin of Javascript with Brendan Eich.
Ruby on Rails Podcast 166 (59m) sep 4 rb
Tom & Nick Mango - Rails Rumble 2014 Preview.
Ruby5 493 (6m) sep 5 rb
TimeWithZone, descriptive_statistics, ActiveJob and GlobalID, Paperdragon, English operators.
DevOps Cafe 54 (47m) sep 5 ops
Gene Kim, DevOps in the Enterprise.
The Cloudcast #160 (46m) sep 5 ops
The State of The Cloudcast - MidYear 2014.
Node Up 71 (1h19) sep 5 js
a team netflix show.
Links curated by mose (editor).

Green Ruby News was a feed of fresh links of the week about ruby, javascript, webdev, devops, collected by mose, xenor and tysliu every sunday.