Superhero.js
Creating, testing and maintaining a large JavaScript code base is not easy —
especially since great resources on how to do this are hard to find.
This page is a collection of the best articles, videos and presentations
we’ve found on the topic.
Good questions from Rollins.
Dispatch – Henry Rollins
For the last couple of hours, I have been thinking of the verdict that was reached in what is now known as the Steubenville rape case.
So, Google announced they were shutting down Reader in July. After about a week, I’ve settled into using Feedly as a suitable replacement. TheOldReader has a good interface for desktop, but it’s virtually unusable on my phone. Newsblur is attractive because it’s all open source, but I’m thinking that setting up a local instance would be too much work. I tried a few others that aren’t worth noting.
You can see a bunch of suggestions at replacereader.com.
Also, remember what I said that Google would be the new Microsoft? Was that almost five years ago?
The analysis below about Google snuffing out RSS is great. I expect the Internet to route around this problem. I’m wondering how bad this is going to be for Google. On the one hand, they seem to be playing on long, steady game against Facebook. On the other hand, dumping Reader seems like an obviously bad idea. Just the removal of the sharing causes lots of vocal influencers to boycott Plus.
Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry | ZDNet
Most of the commentary I’ve read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that’s a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines. Google stomped them out of business like Godzilla sweeping through Tokyo.
Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself — Tech News and Analysis
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Google may think it can waltz into a market that Evernote and others have staked out, but I’m not going to dance.
Three Months to Scale NewsBlur – The NewsBlur Blog
At 4:16pm last Wednesday I got a short and to-the-point email from Nilay Patel at The Verge with only a link that started with the host “googlereader.blogspot.com”. The sudden spike in NewsBlur’s visitors immediately confirmed — Google was shutting down Reader.
Marcelo Calbucci’s Blog: Google is about to learn a tough lesson
A very common mistake entrepreneurs make is to assume that a feature is not necessary because it doesn’t have a lot of usage, thus it can be safely removed from the product. Sometimes that’s the case, but sometimes, not so much.Google made a big mistake cancelling Google Reader that will have severe ripple effects to its empire. I know a lot has been written about it, but let me give you a different angle on it.Free works – Marco.org
Google Reader’s upcoming shutdown and Mailbox’s rapid acquisition have reignited the discussion of free vs. paid services and whether people should pay for products they love to keep them running sustainably.
But users aren’t the problem. As Michael Jurewitz wrote, many tech startups never even attempt to reach profitability before they’re acquired or shut down. Nobody ever had a chance to pay for Google Reader or Mailbox.
All jobs listed on HireThere.com are for working outside of a traditional office. I agree this is increasingly a benefit that programmers will seek.
The remote-only job board called HireThere.com
With traditional companies like Citibank and American Express on one hand, and cutting edge companies like 37signals, StackExchange, and Balsamiq on the other, a distributed team of remote workers is the future.
However, with more and more attention being drawn to remote working, there’s no dedicated job boards for it.
Here are recent stories about Open Source and education.
CK-12 Foundation
CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content inmultiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels, will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles.
The “Linux” of online learning? edX takes big step toward open source goal
Moving closer toward its vision of being an open-sourced learning platform, edX on Thursday released its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content.