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• Xcode-Cloud
  
• functional programming comes to the mac introducing swift
  
• Alamofire - Code
  
• iOS 8 security and 1Password
  
• Functional Json
  
• Randomly Lazy
  
• Interesting Swift features
  
• iOS 8 day-by-day
  

tools

• xUnique
  - it makes project.pbxproj unique and same on any machine.
• JGProgressHUD
  
• Core data editor
  
• Sketch Tool Box
  

design

• design with sketch
  
• Designing Mobile First
  
• Sketch Shortcuts
  
• Designing while Travelling
  
• abduzeedo
  
• the making of AprilZero
  
• Google’s new Material Design
  
• designing the new Foursquare
  

generalRead

• Can Web animation save Flat Design
  
• TechCrunch Open Sources Its WordPress Async Task Library
  
• news.layervault.com
  
• Apple fashion
  
• Jobs, Steve.
  

devRead

• Secrets of Dispatch_Once
  by Mike Ash
• 1password-app-extensions - Code
  Thanks to Apple’s incredible new developer features in iOS 8…
• MVVM
  Design pattern by Ash Furrow.
• Let’s discuss MVVM for iOS
  
• MVVM, Swift & Reactive Cocoa
  by Colin Eberhardt
• Learn-Swift
  A no-frills introduction to Swift for busy and/or curious people…
• NSHipster Swift Doc
  Code structure and organization is a matter of pride for developers.
• Prefixes Considered Passé
  Decided. No longer prefixing classes in app code, even with Objective-C. I can hear your screams and I don’t care.
• CloudKit
  
• Dark magic for debugging your iOS app
  by James Tang

tools

• Flex
  Flipboard Explorer is a set of in-app debugging and exploration tools for iOS development.
• Affinity Designer (Beta)
  Professional graphic design software for the Mac
• App Links
  Link anywhere on mobile.

design

• Discovering great pubs,...

Its an introductory blog post which aims at projecting an overview of all the above technologies and how they can be used together.

Introduction

Meteor is an open-source JavaScript platform for building web apps.

http://docs.meteor.com/

Installation:

[curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh]

First Project:

meteor create ~/myapp
cd ~/myapp
meteor

Notes:

• it saves the scripts at /usr/local/bin/meteor
• it uses MongoDB for database
• it uses DDP for client-server communication.
• for indepth reading core features/implementations of Meteor
• for 3rd party meteor modules, we have Atmosphere
• to manage 3rd party modules we have to use Meteorite
• Our JavaScript code can run in two environments: the client (browser), and the server (a Node.js container on a server).

http://meteorhacks.com/introduction-to-ddp.html

DDP - Distributed Data Protocol

• Meteor uses it to communicate...