Top Reads for January
This is the ninth installment of my attempt at creating a monthly post which aggregates all the best content I’ve come across in the past month. ‘Best’ in this context could mean quite a few things – interesting, thought-provoking, funny or a cool new open source project. So here are the top things I read in January.
iOS
- Double Pointers in Objective-C
- Design the Details: Empty States
- Why Pull-To-Refresh Isn’t Such a Bad Guy
- iOS & OSX Developers Conferences for 2014
JavaScript & NodeJS
- And just like that Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify now
- Backbone or Angular or Ember? Here is my choice and why
- Cycle.js: A JavaScript implementation of Rail’s text helper
- Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers! Make Macros Instead
- Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster
Career
- Questions I’m asking in interviews
- 7 Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014
- Why You Need a Blog
- How to Create a Blog
- Finding Your First Clients As A Freelancer
- The Builder’s High
Products
Other
- Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right
- Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code
- Announcing Lotus – a full stack web framework for Ruby
- Another go at Go … failed!
- Preemptive commit comments
Happy coding.