Manage projects without leaving GitHub

Transform GitHub into a full-featured project management solution. ZenHub’s features display directly in GitHub’s UI.
https://www.zenhub.io/

Strider: Open Source Continuous Integration & Deployment Server.

Strider is an Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. It is written in Node.JS / JavaScript and uses MongoDB as a backing store. It is published under the BSD license.
http://ift.tt/Y4vbfw

Apache Spark™ - Lightning-Fast Cluster Computing

Apache Spark™ is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing.

http://ift.tt/1dF5F2E

Programmer Competency Matrix « Sijin Joseph – Blog

Programming competence matrix. Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n. Computer Science 2n (Level 0) n2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log..., programming, development, knowledge, code, patterns, competency, evaluation,

http://ift.tt/19R6FmI

GenMyModel | Online UML tool

GENMYMODEL is a free uml online tool with code generators for software architects and developers.

http://ift.tt/1jJ3GwZ

Videogular | A video player for AngularJS

An HTML5 video player for AngularJS

http://www.videogular.com/#/

The Ultimate Flexbox Cheat Sheet

Flexbox is a brand, spankin' new CSS layout module with suprisingly good browser support! Say goodbye to float frustration and hello to a brave new world of easy vertical centering, re-ordering elements and dynamically growing and shrinking layouts.

http://www.sketchingwithcss.com/samplechapter/cheatsheet.html

Why MySQL ?

Hi,

I didn't get a lot of time lastely to post on the Blog. Got a lot of work and tried a lot of new stuff (yeah).

One of these new tool that I used is the MariaDB, the opensource fork of MySQL when Oracle bought it. So I made a try for a new project that we'll need to code.

MariaDB was so easy to install and I double checked MySQL compatibility and it looks like that they are almost the same, event the binaries used in MariaDB bundle use the same executables names !!!

The project is maintained by almost the same team that developed the base engine, this could be a mark of quality because they know the project really well. So I checked online and seen that some benchmarks show that MariaDB in a lot of cases works better than MySQL !!!

So I told myself, "Why still using MySQL maintained by a company that I don't have in my heart that shows lower performances and not go to an opensource project developed and maintained by the original team ?". And just one reason was making sense : habit. I was so used to use this database that I've never took the time to check others alternatives. Habits kills innovation, when you get used to a technology you should make a break and try new alternatives because sometimes we make choices without thinking and our customaries make all the work.

This is the lesson of the day then : have a try to new technologies and make your own mind about it before getting used to the easy choice of habits.

Have a nice week end and I hope that my advice will not be in vain :)

Five common PHP design patterns

Useful designs patterns for PHP

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-designptrns/