Top Reads for January
Feb 3, 2014
    This is the ninth installment of my attempt at creating a monthly post which aggregates all the best content I’ve come across in the past month. ‘Best’ in this context could mean quite a few things – interesting, thought-provoking, funny or a cool new open source project. So here are the top things I read in January.
iOS
- Double Pointers in Objective-C
 - Design the Details: Empty States
 - Why Pull-To-Refresh Isn’t Such a Bad Guy
 - iOS & OSX Developers Conferences for 2014
 
JavaScript & NodeJS
- And just like that Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify now
 - Backbone or Angular or Ember? Here is my choice and why
 - Cycle.js: A JavaScript implementation of Rail’s text helper
 - Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers! Make Macros Instead
 - Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster
 
Career
- Questions I’m asking in interviews
 - 7 Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014
 - Why You Need a Blog
 - How to Create a Blog
 - Finding Your First Clients As A Freelancer
 - The Builder’s High
 
Products
Other
- Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right
 - Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code
 - Announcing Lotus – a full stack web framework for Ruby
 - Another go at Go … failed!
 - Preemptive commit comments
 
Happy coding.