Shock and AWS

The Name’s Bond General web Bond [github/microsoft] is an open source, cross-platform framework used by Microsoft to handle working with schematized data. Here’s a look at the ECMAScript 6 reflect API [h3manth]. Then we have a look at LinkendIn’s Stream Processing engine, Apache Samza [engineering.linkedin]. Either/Or Design icono [github/saeedalipoor] is an icon pack that requires zero external resources. Bright Tips offers a platform for A/B testing for designers [bright.tips]. Here’s a nice piece on coming up with illustrations for Medium [medium/thomas_danthony]. There must be a clause written into every Medium contract that mandates that you write a Medium post once you’ve finished. And here’s a lovely piece on promoting a collaborative design process with clients [jesseddy]. APWhy? SitePoint First on SitePoint today: How to work out whether you or your business needs an API. Then we have five clever ways to use Google Analytics to research your UX needs. This is interesting: An article covering how Ruby can be used in the medical world. Seriously. And then lastly for this bit, here’s a look ahead to what’s going to happen in the world of Firefox OS this year. Shock and AWS News/business Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has an interesting post comparing the schedules of “makers” and “managers”, and why the two may not be compatible [paulgraham]. Get a load of these eye-popping stats about Amazon Web Services [highscalability]. Example: “All 14 other cloud providers combined have 1/5th the aggregate capacity of AWS (estimate by Gartner)”. Jeez. Last week everyone (us included) went nuts about a teen posting about what he thought about various social networks. Well, here’s his follow-up [medium/backchannel]. But more importantly, here’s sociologist and researcher danah boyd on why it’s problematic to present the views of one white, male, privileged teen as representing an entire diverse demographic [medium/message]. Cliffhanger Off-topic The New York Times has an excellent interactive WebGL-powered story about a particularly challenging rock climbing route [nytimes]. Here’s a Twitter-based choose-your-own-adventure game [twitter/wnd_go]. We did not do very well. This is a mini robotic printer [zutalabs], something you probably didn’t realize you wanted until you clicked on that link. We missed this last week: Nixie, the wearable drone that you can launch and have come back to you, wowed the audience at CES [youtube]. Pretty elaborate way to try to kill the selfie stick phenomenon. Finally, here’s a bot, struggling to describe art [noviceartblogger]. Be honest, could you do better? That's it for us today, thanks for joining us. We're going to spend the rest of the day coming up with a bot to accurately describe our links. That'll give us more time to spend rock climbing or wearing drones. Until tomorrow!