Codepope's Development Hell

YÚN Soon: The Arduino YÚN, a version of the microcontroller board with an added MIPS processor running Linino driving a Wi-Fi chipset, is now heading towards distributors and should be on sale on 10 September, a bit later than the originally planned June release due to the complexity of the project. The board has also been upgraded, according to the Arduino Blog will now sport 16MB of Flash and 64MB of RAM on the MIPS side.

The latest release of SQLite, the powerful, embeddable public domain SQL database which has found its way into so many applications, is version 3.8.0 which switches over to the project’s “Next Generation Query Planner” (NGQP). Query planners break down the users SQL queries and work out the best way to get the required results based on the planner’s knowledge of the database tables, indicies and other gathered statistics and a generous helping of the planner’s authors skills in creating effective ways to deduce what to do with that information.

GitLab 6.0: The open-source alternative to GitHub, GitLab has just been updated to version 6.0 with improved group management for projects which can associate users to the group, merge requests between forks of a project and the original project, branch pruning and creation from the GitLab UI and lists of other enhancements. Version 6.0 also sees the introduction of an enterprise edition of GitLab. Git 1.8.4: The latest update to Git itself comes in the form of Git 1.

Yeoman, a collection of tools and practices for creating and developing web applications, has reached version 1.0. Written using Node.js to host the command-line tools, Yeoman combines three independently developed major components, Yo, an application scaffolding tool, grunt, the build tool, and bower for package management and brings them together as a way to speed up application building with community contributed code generators, including Angular, Wordpress, Backbone, Ember, Firefox-os and many more.

NGINX Plus Support: NGINX Inc, the company that is commercialising the open source NGINX web and proxy server, has just rolled out their new commercial offering, a fully supported version of NGINX with services and added features for enterprise use, under the name NGINX Plus. One year subscription for one server starts at $1350 and adds health checks, dynamic config, monitoring, HA, enhanced load balancing and adaptive media streaming to NGINX’s open source foundation.

MongoDB gets Hive: 10Gen have announced that the MongoDB connector for Hadoop has been updated so it now can work with the SQL-like queries of Hive over MongoDB data sets. There’s also support for MongoDB’s BSON (Binary JSON…yes well…) on Hadoop’s Distributed File System and incremental MapReduce jobs. There’s an hour long video on the connector’s features which covers the new stuff what’s in the pipeline. Pure Small CSS: The Yahoo UI folks have a project called [Pure](http://purecss.

Martin Sústrik, one of the orignal developers of 0MQ, has been working on nanomsg since last year and has now announced that the project has reached its first alpha 0.1 release. Nanomsg offers a high performace implementation of a number of what are called “scalability protocols” such as one-to-one (PAIR), many-to-many (BUS), clustered stateless services (REQREP), publish and subscribe (PUBSUB), message aggregation (FANIN), balanced message distribution (FANOUT) and application state queries (SURVEY).

Bootstrap has been providing a great way for people to get their web sites and applications up and running by offering a useful, non-horrid looking framework of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and fonts which all comes together to make life a lot easier. At its code, Bootstrap offers a grid for layout which made it simple to put together a complex page without getting lost in a maze of layout.

Composing test data is hard and composing security test data is many times harder, so the introduction of FuzzDB by Adam Muntner of the Mozilla security team is worth looking at for those who want to more effectively check the security of their applications. FuzzDB isn’t a database per se, but a collection of collections of categorised documents and includes: A library of predictable resource locations by OS, web server and app packages so that the regular holes can be checked.

Graph Edited: The Directed Graph Editor is a rather stylish implementation of a graph editor in JavaScript ising the D3 library. It’s part of a more extensive project, the Modal Logic Playground published under an MIT licence. PostGIS 2.1.0: For those who like their databases geographically aware, the latest 2.1.0 update to PostGIS, which brings spatial and geographic objects to PostgreSQL, has been announced. The update’s headline features are performance improvements and a wide range of new or enhanced functions.