Meteor Daily News

Content

• Common mistakes, post
• Vote to add Meteor to the Bitnami library, site

Packages

• Reactive MySQL, numtel:mysql

Content

• Meteor Weekly, post
• List of web apps using Meteor, quora
• Testing your packages from the command line and in Travis CI, post

Content

• Meteor tips and workarounds, post
• Scrape Twitter with http + Session variables, video
• Dealing with time-zones, post

Packages

• UI framework based on concepts from Facebook Flux, space:ui

Content

• @eventedmind: The New Packaging System, video

Packages

• FastRender 2.0 is out, meteorhacks:fast-render
• Direct and secure file-uploads to AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage and others, edgee:slingshot
• Respondly’s UI Harness was released, but no documentation yet, respondly:ui-harness, site

Content

• Building offline apps using AppCache and ground:db, tutorial
• Telescope Hangout #2: Search, SEO, and SCSS, video

Meetups

• Meteor Day SF, playlist
  • Sashko Stubailo: Introduction to Meteor, video
  • Richard Brooks: Gitflow branch dashboard, video
  • Babak Badaei: Creating a Droste-style animation with Meteor, video
  • Pan Wangperawong: Rapid prototyping with Meteor, video
  • Andrew Mello: Resolver.io - A marketplace for everyone, video
  • Jade Wang: Telescope & Pintask on Sandstorm.io, video
  • Aaron Cammarata: Meteor gaming with Unity, video
  • Harrison Harnisch: Integrating ElasticSearch with Meteor, video
  • Nate Strauser: Packages for building an ecommerce application, video
  • Yuriy Dybskiy: Worldwide Meteor Day – Connecting 134 cities across all continents, video
• Meteor Day London, playlist
  • Oli Evans: Introduction, video
  • Chris Chang: MongoDB talk, video
  • Rich Plastow: Loop.coop Demo, video
  • Will Swannell: Hire Space Demo, video
  • Luke Clifton: Meteor.community Demo, video

Packages

• MailChimp, docs, mailchimp, miro:mailchimp
• Barcode as a font, clinical:barcode

Info

• FastRender RC is out, git, tweet

Content

• Adding an OAuth account to an existing Meteor account, tutorial
• How to do internationalisation with TAP:i18n, tutorial

Info

• There are now paid lessons in BulletProof, tweet paid
• Meteor Weekly, post

Info

• @arunoda is planning a better pub/sub API with support for multiple databases, tweet

Content

• Cloud-client computing and the evolution of the mobile app, article

Packages

• A reactive favicon, rxFavico, favico.js, post
• user-accounts now supports Ratchet, useraccounts, ratchet

Content

• BulletProof Expert package is now available, site
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #41, podcast
• Meteor Q&A with @cdmather, video

Packages

• Modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design, materialize-meteor, site

Info

• Organizations are coming to Meteor Accounts soon, post
• Fast-Render 2.0 is coming, tweet, git

Content

• Getting started with Meteor, tutorial

Packages

• Package for sexy hot code push , git , video

Content

• Preview of Meteor on Windows, post, git
• Reactive form validation with Tracker.autorun, video

Packages

• Page transitions with bender, bender, demo

Info

• Appsdeck now supports Oplog Tailing and Sticky Sessions, post

Content

• Introducing the Meteor Club, post
• Meteor Club Q&A with @cdmather, video
• @html5cat talks about Meteor Day, post paid
• Everything you need to know about Async, post
• First 3 months with Meteor, post

Packages

• Upload and manage files easily with AutoForm and CollectionFS, autoform-file

Internal

• Because yesterdays link failed, here it is again: Expanding Meteor Daily, meta

Info

• The Meteor Testing Book joins forces with The Meteor Testing Manual, post
• Discover Meteor is now permanently only $29, post
• MongoDB’s CTO will speak at this months devshop, meetup

Content

• Adding a Beta Invitation System to your application, tutorial
• Meteor SEO - Google Fetch & Render, article
• Best editors for Meteor development, disc

Internal

• Expanding Meteor Daily, meta

Expanding Meteor Daily

I have been curating Meteor Daily for a little bit over 3 months now. The site has become well-known in the community. In those three months it has received over 3000 page views. The mailing list is doing good as well. Some people read Meteor Daily directly in their inboxes, so the audience is even bigger than the page views suggest. All of this was accomplished with very little advertising. I think I only posted to crater.io, reddit and meteor-talk about this project.

A new domain

When I attended Meteor Day in Singapore the guy sitting next to me and some others already knew the project. To introduce the rest of the group to Meteor Daily, I gave a short spontaneus lightning talk. The feedback was very positive. So, being in a positive mood after the good feedback and after a generally awesome Meteor Day, I decided to take Meteor Daily a step further. When I got home I bought a domain for this site, which is todays first announcement:

From now on, you can use meteordaily.info to access this site. The current domain daily.dferber.de will stay as the main website, so you don’t have to update your bookmarks.

Reviews and Interviews

I also thought about other ways to improve Meteor Daily. In the upcoming months, there will be reviews and interviews published here. A new meta-category will be used to communicate internal things like vacation leaves. I have updated the layout to accomodate the new types of content. But don’t worry, I will not flood you with these things. I plan to only include them from time to time. Also, the only thing that subscribers receive via the newsletter or RSS will stay the digests.

But most importantly and thanks to my very relaxed working hours, the daily digests will continue. They are and will stay the main purpose of this site.

Summary

• new domain: meteordaily.info
• daily.dferber.de will stay as well
• new content like interviews and reviews
• categories for different types of content
• explicit links to each posts comments
• project stays focused on daily digests

Content

• Meteor Podcast - Episode #40, podcast
• Meteor reaches 1.0, article
• 6 videos showing Meteor Apps in production, playlist
  • Respondly, video
  • Workpop, video
  • Verso, video
  • Lookback, video
  • Classcraft, video
  • Blonk, video

Tools

• Snippets for Sublime Text, git

Packages

• Uploadcare handles uploads, so you don’t have to, uploadcare

Content

• @arunoda on using Kadira to improve observers, post
• List of projects demoed at Worldwide Meteor Day, git

Packages

• A permission system which is also usable for packages, permissions, video
• Meteor server-side sessions, similar to the typical client session, server-session

There will be no updates over the weekend as I will be on holiday in Bintan.

Info

• Velocity now supports webdriver & cucumber (not yet documented), webdriver, cucumber, example

Content

• Meteorpedia on why you should use Meteor, post
• Replay of Meteor Day Checkins, site

Demos

• An open-source, mobile application for sharing trip expenses with friends, site, git

Packages

• Simple and powerful CMS, cms
• Wrapper for Akismet to filter spam from comments, akismet, site

News

• There is now a subreddit dedicated to learning Meteor, subreddit

Content

• Discover Meteor shares statistics after Meteor Day and Meteor 1.0 launch, post
• A collection of the best open source Meteor apps, site
• Meteor Day in Prague, post
• Meteoris was updated and now has a GUI code generator, post, site

Content

• Getting started with Meteor, post

Packages

• Login service for Last.FM accounts, accounts-lastfm

Content

• Angularized version of the ‘simple todos’ example app , example
• @joshowens comparison of Modulus, Heroku and Digital Ocean, post
• Worldwide Meteor Day in SF, video
• Upload files with jQuery File Upload, post

News

• BulletProof Meteor by MeteorHacks, site
• Appsdeck now supports hosting Meteor Apps, docs paid service
• 15% Discount on The Meteor Testing Manual for Meteor Day, site

News

• Today is Meteor Day! Go and attend a meetup near you, site

Content

• Combining Angular and Meteor, tutorial
• Wired’s article about Meteor, article
• Proxy SSL Traffic to Meteor for development, post

Packages

• Logical security for client-originated MongoDB collection operations, security
• Phaser.io for Meteor (HTML5 Gaming Framework), phaser, site

News

• @imslavko’s autocompletion plugin was updated to Meteor 1.0 API, github
• MDG started working on an official Windows Version, post, trello

Content

• Exporting data from an application, tutorial
• @TimHaines explains why devs love Meteor and MongoDB, article
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #39, podcast

Packages

• Send notifications to Android devices, cordova-notifications

News

• Meteor 1.0, post
• Velocity 1.0 RC, post
• Iron Router 1.0, github

Content

• Meteor hits 1.0 by @yauh, post
• Meteor 1.0 by differential.io, post
• 8 Discover Meteor Chapters for free (for the next 6 days), post

Updates will continue on Tuesday.

Content

• Velocity Chapter now free on The Meteor Testing Manual, book
• Creating a slideshow with Famous, post
• Versioning data revisited, post
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #38, podcast
• Meteor command-line tool will get faster after 1.0, post

Content

• Impersonating another user, tutorial
• Atom is getting ready for Meteor 1.0.0, post
• Applications you need as a Meteor Developer, post
• Meteor Podcast - Episode #37, podcast
• iron:router version pre5 for 1.0.0, post

Meetups

• DevShop London - September 2014
  • Bernard Mordan: Test Driven Development, video
  • Oli Evans & Alan Shaw: Meteor Phonegap Demo, video
  • Tom Steele: Using Meteor to Manage Security, video

Packages

• Create WebComponents from Templates, webcomponent
• MongoDB aggregations support for Meteor, aggregate

Content

• In defense of CoffeeScript, article
• Profiling an app on the example of Telescope, @arunoda’s tutorial
• Introduction to Meteor using CoffeeScript, book paid
• @sam_hatoum on the state of velocity, post

There will be no releases until Sunday, 26th of October as I will be on holiday in Thailand.

Info

• Meteor 1.0 RC2, post

Content

• Twitter list of Meteor folks, list
• Updated Meteor integration for Atom.io, post, github, release

Info

• Meteor 1.0 RC, tweet, meteor-talk, github, change history

Packages

• Collections which only sync with the server on request, dumb-collections
• Track users’ presence, @tmeasday’s presence

Meetups

• Meteor Nordic Meetup, video
• DevShop SF - September 2014
  • Andrew Mao: Making an impact with Meteor in computer and social science, video
  • Chris Mather: Preparing Iron Router for v1.0, video
  • Steve Caldwell: StrapMetrics, an analytics platform for wearable devs, video
  • Oleksander Stubailo: Writing templates with Markdown and KaTeX, video
  • Bjorn Tipling: Building an alternative template engine for Meteor, video
  • Jacek & Gosia Midgal: Demo of Daily Scrum, video
  • Roshan Jobanputra: Meteor Help, video
  • Juan PIneda: Bitcoin multi-sig processing in the client, video
  • Dominic Nguyen: Atmosphere - new ways to discover and engage with packages, video
  • Yuriy Dybskiy: Worldwide Meteor Day, video

Content

• Meteor Weekly, post
• FathomDB brings real time data to Meteor, article
• Security tips by @joshowens, post

Info

• Meteor 0.9.4: web and mobile from a single codebase, official testing support, post

Content

• Using meteor publish-release to extend the command line tool, post

Packages

• Lookup a Mongo Collection instance by its name, @dburles mongo-collection-instances experimental