#149 - dec 14th 2015

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.

Best Visualizations 2015
The best and brightest of the data viz world in 2015.

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.

Cloudcraft
Visualize your cloud architecture like a pro.
You-Dont-Need-jQuery
Examples of how to do query, style, dom, ajax, event etc like jQuery with plain javascript.

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.

grape
An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
dry-validation
Data validation library based on predicate logic and rule composition
Toshi
A full bitcoin node for building web applications.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...

Choosing an HTTP Status Code — Stop Making It Hard	dec 4
Use right HTTP status code when design APIs.
What's new in Ruby 2.3?	dec 7
Frozen strings, dig for Hash and Array, did_you_mean... and many more others.
iOS and Android Programming with Go	dec 8
Possibilities for native iOS and Android programming with Go.
Data Migrations in Rails	dec 8
Use temp rake task instead of rails database migration as data migration.
Level Up Your Command-Line-Fu With Ruby	dec 8
Using ruby as a swiss army knife to improve some comand-line tasks.
Ex Pusher Lite - Part 1: Phoenix Channels and Rails apps	dec 9
Part 1 of a series which moves rails app to phoenix.
25,000+ Req/s for Rack JSON API with MRuby	dec 9
Performance comparison for a simple rack app between MRI ruby and mruby.
Speeding Up Bulk Imports in Rails	dec 9
Direct SQL calls is more efficient when dealing with buld imports.
Rails Anti-Pattern: Fat Decorator	dec 9
Make single decoretor less envy by separate concerns into small decorators.
Using Multi-Step Animations and Transitions	dec 11
Multi-step animations and transitions are fun little tricks we have at our disposal to create rich, dynamic movement in CSS.
How to Spice up Your Slack Channel with Hubot	dec 11
Integrate Hubot to Slack in many ways.

Watch

Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ...

DockerCon EU 2015	dec 8
DockerCon EU 2015 all presentations.

Links curated by mose (publisher), xenor, tysliu (editors), Nauman Tariq, hsatac (contributors) .

Rant

The random rant of the week by xenor.

Physical Health of Developers

This is the first time for me to release the newsletter without our dear friend mose, who is currently in fever and need to take some days to recover. Recently I've been noticed that some developers including me suffering from small or big health issues.

The reason sometimes is obvious, when developer's mode is on, it sticks for hours without leaving our screen and keyboard. Even when taking a break, we are still on smaller screens or keyboards (tablet, mobile...etc). Our mind keeps running and sometimes physical requirements just seems unnecessary. So, after several stays up or absences of meals, it happened.

Am I going to suggest standing up and doing outdoor activities? Hell no! The desire of gathering and absorbing information is what makes us strong, our body is just the minimum support for our mind.

So what should we do? Well, eat, drink, rest, and grab a keyboard to type!

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