Simplified Google Calendar API goes to version V3. Out: XML, unnecessary Atom, namespaces, and that weird authentication scheme. In: JSON, OAuth 2, PATCH support and a whole lot of simplicity.
Tested Travis CI now supports Node.js as first-class language. Here’s how to test Node.js modules using Travis.
Storage Polyglot Persistence:
This polyglot affect will be apparent even within a single application. A complex enterprise application uses different kinds of data, and already usually integrates information from different sources. Increasingly we’ll see such applications manage their own data using different technologies depending on how the data is used.
Hardcore The lockless memory allocator.
Futuretech And just as good, emerging trends in Web development:
Patterns are the new gradients.
Square is the new rounded.
Keyboard shortcuts are the new not having keyboard shortcuts.
QotD Patrick McKenzie:
I once knew a company with a problem. So they outsourced. Now they have 10 problems but are only paying for 2.5.