Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework - Second Edition - Isaac Strack

GoodReads Summary: Learn one of the most up-to-date JavaScript platforms, with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions Familiarize yourself with Meteor’s new and improved features Create dynamic, multi-user applications in JavaScript.

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Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns - Essential Solutions for Effective JavaScript Web Design - Simon Timms

GoodReads Summary: Enhance your JavaScript code with this essential collection of design patterns. Discover an extensive range of techniques and strategies to successfully tackle complex JavaScript development problems and put them into practice by following detailed examples that demonstrate each design pattern at its most effective. Dive deeper into JavaScript and master these powerful design patterns for an innovative and cutting-edge approach to JavaScript that meets the demands of modern web development.

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TypeScript Succinctly - Steve Fenton

GoodReads Summary: The extensive adoption of JavaScript for application development, and the ability to use HTML and JavaScript to create Windows Store apps, has made JavaScript a vital part of the Windows development ecosystem. Microsoft has done extensive work to make JavaScript easier to use. Microsoft's TypeScript extends many familiar features of .NET programming to JavaScript. With TypeScript Succinctly by Steve Fenton, you will learn how TypeScript provides optional static typing and classes to JavaScript development, how to create and load modules, and how to work with existing JavaScript libraries through ambient declarations. TypeScript is even significantly integrated with Visual Studio to provide the autocompletion and type checking you are most comfortable with.

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Learning ECMAScript 6 - Narayan Prusty

GoodReads Summary: About This Book Learn a powerful approach to writing object-oriented JavaScript code using ES6 Create and use ES6 modules to learn to write smart, modularized JavaScript code The book will take you step-by-step through a wide array of examples, giving you tips on how to make the best use of the latest ES6 features Who This Book Is For

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Learning Ionic - Build real-time and hybrid mobile applications with Ionic - Arvind Ravulavaru

GoodReads Summary: Key Features Create hybrid mobile applications by combining the capabilities of Ionic, Cordova, and AngularJS Reduce the time to market your application using Ionic, that helps in rapid application development Detailed code examples and explanations, helping you get up and running with Ionic quickly and easily Book Description

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Dear Github Maintainers

A rebuttal to "Dear Github".

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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Shantanu Tushar

GoodReads Summary: This cookbook is for beginners or intermediate Linux users who want to master writing Bash shell scripts. Intermediate/advanced users, system administrators, developers, and programmers can use it as a reference when they face problems while coding. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that beginners can read it from start to end while advanced users can just open it at any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference. It covers most of the commands on Linux with a variety of use cases accompanied by plenty of examples and guides you on implementing some of the commonest Linux commands with recipes that handle operations or properties related to files like searching and mining inside a file with grep. It also shows how utilities like sed, awk, grep, and cut can be combined to solve text processing problems. The focus is on saving time by automating activities with a few lines of script.

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Couchbase Example and REST

Using the example Couchbase to show how REST works.

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Agile vs Culture: The Story of Outliners

When the culture goes against agile.

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The Day I Found My Old Code

Found a piece of code I wrote 2 years ago, following a lot of linters. I'm amazed how readable the code still is.

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