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Blogs

• Tracking down a performance bottleneck in Node.js with Meteor & StrongLoop, post
• Meteor is going to be big, post
• Bootstrapping with Meteor by @chadkruser, post

Tutorials

• Type checking objects, video

Packages

• Semantic-UI Modal, semantic-ui-modal

News

• July Devshop SF recap, post

Info

• Meteor Weekly, post
• Try out Kadiras new error tracking solution, post

Blogs

• Why you shouldn’t wait for 1.0 to start using Meteor by @joshowens, post

Tutorials

• Beginner video tutorials by @MeteorTips, iTunes

Packages

• Fake data generator, terracotta-warrior

Tutorials

• Ubuntu Server Setup, post
• Functional testing with zombie.js, Travis and Codeship, post

Built with Meteor

• Meeting Hero, site

Packages

• Collection of HTML element and attribute style-normalizations, normalize
• Auth hook for iron-router to use with onBeforeAction, iron-router-hook-auth
• Natural-language duration parser, juration
• Wrapper for the angular-file-upload module, angular-file-upload

Info

• Bash completions for the command line tool, github
• Real-time analytics with Meteor, straphq
• Meteor podcast released, post

Blogs

• Interview with @arunoda, post
• Using Google Spreadsheets as a CMS for Meteor, post

Discussions

• Disadvantages of Meteor instead of Rails, post

Tutorials

• Add Google Adsense, post
• Random-Package, post

Packages

• Package that returns ‘active’ if on the specified route, current-route
• Batch Typescript (.ts) compiler for pure-TypeScript codebases, tsc
• Semantic UI, semantic-ui-rtl

Tutorials

• How to use Jade in your application, post
• Using NPM modules in your application, post

Info

• Optimize your production apps with Kadira, post

Tutorials

• Reactive Properties, video
• Execute a Unix command from Meteor, post
• Load libraries only for specific users, post

Packages

• Making long, unwieldy select boxes more user friendly, chosen-package-v1

Info

• Meteorpedia added documentation for the new Blaze API, doc

Blogs

• Email subscriptions with Mailgun, post
• Testing with BDD using Velocity and Jasmine, post

Packages

• Extend template functionality (abstractness, reusability), github
• Use Velocity to get code coverage, velocity-coverage

Info

• Kadira sets default authentication mechanism to Meteor developer accounts, post
• Telescope now makes theming easier, post, more
• Meteor Devshop London is tomorrow, meetup
• Iron-Router moved to new namespace in 0.9.0 packaging system, post

Blogs

• @arunoda’s Meteor Weekly, post
• Porting Meteor apps to Sandstorm, post
• Set up Meteor and Meteorite on Windows, post (unofficial)
• Ways to build mobile apps with Meteor, post

Meetups

• Devshop videos released, from Devshop London - July 2014
  • James Uren: Creative code, video
  • Howard Tang: The design of simple, video
  • Dominik Guzei: Prisma - Creative suite extensions, video
  • Alan Shaw: Server 2 Server DDP, video
  • Bernard Morden: Multitouchy, video
  • Liam Wooding: Surround cows, video

Packages

• Simple Grid packaged for Meteor, simplegrid, repo, post
• Server-side throttling is now available on atmosphere, throttle, demo
• i18n support for Iron Router, iron-router-i18n
• draw SVG sequence diagrams from textual representation, js-sequence-diagrams
• draw SVG flow charts from textual representation, flowchart.js (or alternative)

Info

• @tmeasday’s thoughts about the future of meteorite, post
• Yesterdays talk of @arunoda about Client Side Error Tracking, slides

Blogs

• A Beginner’s Guide to Iron Router, part1, part2 (new)

Discussions

• Point multiple domains to one app, thread
• Comparing Meteor cordova wrappers, discussion
• Application performance with >100k users, discussion

Packages

• Monkey testing, meteor-gremlins

Info

• @arunoda’s talk about Client Side Error Tracking - Today, at 6pm +0200, airpair
• Acceptance testing using rubys capybara, repo
• Telescope has gotten a newsletter feature, repo

Packages

• Bind parsed form and input data to Session variables, form-data-binder
• Custom elements with Meteor templates, custom-elements
• JSON getter/setters for Session variables, session-json
• Interact with the Wordpress JSON API plugin, wordpress-json-api

Blogs

• New/incoming documents pattern, post

Packages

• use underscore directly in templates, underscore-helper
• run hooks before/after Meteor methods, method-hooks

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Packages

• Meteor wrapper for MailChimp API, mailchimp
• Zone.js packaged for Meteor, zones, demo, talk
• Kissmetrics integration for Meteor, kissmetrics, website

News

• Sneak preview of the Meteor visual redesign, post
• Help test Meteor 0.9.0 Release Candidate! post

Meetups

• Devshop videos released, from Devshop SF - July 2014
  • Evan Weinberg: Coding for the classroom, video
  • Bozhao Yu: Revisit link accounts, video
  • Andy Lash: Planning your startup with Opstarts, video
  • Sean Li: A PaaS in Meteor, video
  • Harrison Harnisch: A Python client for Meteor, video
  • Andy Williams & David Furlong: Meteor-neo4j, video
  • Ben Morse & Alex Fuhr: Meteor flies drone, video
  • Kenton Varda: Packaging Meteor apps, video
  • Slava Kim: Experimental Redis Support, video
  • Mike Risse: MeteorPad, video
  • Phil Cockfield: A look inside the Respondly UI system, video

Tutorials

• Using wait, waitOn and ready in Routes, video

Blogs

• Meteor Mutual Testing Fund, idea
• Telescope v0.9.2 MailScope, post

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