It's Friday once again, and here's a list of links for your weekend reading. Hopefully you will find them useful and informative.
Cloud
Scaling up and out in Windows Azure Web Sites: How to start small and scale up and out while keeping costs down.
Windows Azure internals: A video from TechEd Northamerica.
.NET
- Cross-platform portable class libraries: A good rundown of portable class libraries and why they are important.
Node.js
Node v0.10.13 released: Another week, another Node.js release.
NodePDX space wizards: NodePDX is over, but you can find videos and extra swag here.
Python
- Reactive extensions (Rx) for Python: And Ruby.
Ruby
Build a Sinatra MVC framework: Using Sinatra for MVC.
Introduction to Railties: A good read about rails internals.
MRuby: Continuing the trend of "JavaScript is the new assembly", here's a Ruby interpreter in JavaScript.
The self-pipe trick explained: Handling signals by using pipes.
Reactive extensions (RX) for Ruby: And Python.
Mobile
Samples & tutorials for Windows Azure mobile Services integration: A collection of C# and JavaScript samples and tutorials on integrating Mobile Services with other services.
Windows Azure powers for mobile services and mobile gaming: Two posters/infographics from Build are now available on the download center.
Misc.
Riak 1.4 is out: New version is out.
haste-compiler: Haskell to JavaScript compiler.
16 JavaScript concepts JavaScript Professionals must know well: A bunch of things that are useful to understand if you're using JS.
Building Windows 8 applications with AngularJS: This is why Win 8 support for HTML/JS apps rocks.
Why curry helps: A good article on currying in JavaScript.
Angularytics: Analytics for AngularJS apps.
Ember.js persistence foundation: An alternative to Ember-Data.
Grunt-notify: Grunt notifications sent to the desktop using Growl, Notification Center, and Notify-Send.
Enjoy!
- Larry