Tuesday, April 25, 2017

How to build your own Alzheimer’s light treatment relay with Arduino/Espruino

https://blog.cinqmarsmedia.com/alzheimers-52aabbfbdbfd
Can flashing lights ward off Alzheimers? Try this arduino project and see. 

5 Keys to IoT Product Development

https://iot-for-all.com/5-keys-to-iot-product-development-10a2a71f236e
Some from-the-trenches lessons on IoT products. No, you can't count on Wi-Fi. 

You Should Learn Functional Programming in 2017

http://coderoncode.com/functional-programming/2017/04/23/you-should-learn-functional-programming-in-2017.html
Interesting piece on why functional programming is coming into its own. I agree with many points. 

loopy, a tool for thinking in systems

http://ncase.me/loopy/
interesting, fun little visual feedback simulation tool. 

Kint - a modern and powerful PHP debugging helper

https://kint-php.github.io/kint/
Knit is a PHP debugger not as powerful as Xdebug or hard to set up, but better than print_r()

PHPDocker.io is a tool that will help you build a typical PHP development environment based on Docker

https://phpdocker.io/
PHPDocker, a project to help get a Docker running PHP up and running quickly.

Introduction to Elixir

http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
Introduction to the functional programming language Elixir

Friday, April 21, 2017

Analyze your site’s speed and make it faster.

https://gtmetrix.com/
Site to analyze website speed. Mine come in about 83%. 

PHP-FPM

https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PHP-FPM
Ugly site about great software: speeding up PHP via PHP-FPM. 

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 on transitioning from JQuery to Vue. 

10 Excellent Pieces of Expert Advice for Entrepreneurs from VCs

https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/10-excellent-pieces-of-expert-advice-for-entrepreneurs-from-vcs-8c000895940a
What VCs look for in startups. 

Functional Programming is taking over UIs with Pure Views.

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-revolution-of-pure-views-aed339db7da4
At last front-end programming seems to be going in a sane direction with Functional programming and Pure Views. 

How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2,000,000 concurrent SSL connections

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-fine-tuned-haproxy-to-achieve-2-000-000-concurrent-ssl-connections-d017e61a4d27
Tour-de-force of front-end proxying via HA Proxy. 

Why Freelancers Should Be Flocking To Joomla (From WordPress & Drupal)

http://www.pathofthefreelancer.com/blog/insights/56-joomla-cms
Blog post I wrote for Jason Montoya about the merits of Joomla. 

Color Is a Dance Between Your Brain and the World

http://nautil.us/blog/color-is-a-dance-between-your-brain-and-the-world
As the dress photo showed, color is an interaction between your brain and the world around you. 

Joomla Extensions

https://www.tassos.gr/joomla-extensions
Cool Joomla extensions. The Google Structured Markup comes recommended. 

Wednesday, April 19, 2017