Saturday, April 15, 2017

A Vue.js introduction for people who know just enough jQuery to get by

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/vue-js-introduction-for-people-who-know-just-enough-jquery-to-get-by-eab5aa193d77
Good tutorial introduction to Vue.js for those who have had exposure to JQuery. 

Building a Social Network with Laravel and Stream? Easy!

https://www.sitepoint.com/building-social-network-laravel-stream-easy/
Tutorial on building a twitter-like social network with Laravel.

A Library of Foundation UI Components. These HTML, CSS and JS snippets can be plugged into any Foundation project to build faster.

http://foundation.zurb.com/building-blocks/
Zurb is making its play to unseat Bootstrap by providing a larger set of building blocks/widgets/components.

Over the air digital TV mapping service

http://www.tvfool.com
Can we pick up good digital TV?

The League of Extraordinary Packages is a group of developers who have banded together to build solid, well tested PHP packages using modern coding standards.

http://thephpleague.com/
The league of extraordinary PHP packages. Eclectic bunch here, but some real utility. 

How Hackers Hijacked a Bank’s Entire Online Operation

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/hackers-hijacked-banks-entire-online-operation/
How a DNS hijack stole a bank's user portal. 

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The League of Extraordinary Packages

http://thephpleague.com/
a collection of great PHP packages by great programmers Ben talked on the OAuth2 client at ATLPHP.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

My giant JavaScript Basics course is now live on YouTube. And it’s 100% free.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/my-giant-javascript-basics-course-is-now-live-on-youtube-and-its-100-free-9020a21bbc27
Free JavaScript video tutorials. Looks ok. 

Hacker Archetypes

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7478#more-7478
Hacker archetypes. Complete list? 

Hacking blamed for emergency sirens blaring across Dallas early Saturday

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/08/emergency-sirens-blare-across-dallas-county-despite-clear-weather
Hackers trigger weather sirens. 

FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/fbi-arrests-hacker-who-hacked-no-one.html
The FBI arrests a hacker who didn't hack anyone. Is the creation of tools illegal? I don't think so. 

You create. We connect. The secure, scalable, simple platform for your internet of things

https://soracom.io/en/
data backend for the IoT

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

PHP Coding Standards Fixer

http://cs.sensiolabs.org/
I'm not overly-pedantic, even with my mild OCS. But for those that are, this fixer is for you: 

Saturday, April 1, 2017

How deep learning will transform automation

http://infoworld.com/article/3184837/analytics/how-deep-learning-will-transform-automation.html
Interesting take on applying computer learning to... computers: networks, security, SysOps, etc. 

What Writers Earn Money? A Look at the Author Earnings Report on Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Sales

https://electricliterature.com/what-writers-earn-money-c109bfb04d3d
Show me the money!!! in being a writer of books. 

How A Company Raised $1M In 7 Days On Kickstarter

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jiawertz/2017/03/30/how-a-company-raised-1mm-in-7-days-on-kickstarter/#48f280f41566
Hints on how a Kickstarter raised $1M in a week:

Simulation suggests 68 percent of the universe may not actually exist

http://newatlas.com/dark-energy-existence-questioned/48708/
The unsatisfying dark-energy theory may not be needed after all. 

IOTA Development Roadmap

https://medium.com/iotatangle/iota-development-roadmap-74741f37ed01
State of the IOTA ecosystem to enable the IoT.