Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of the Top 5 trending GitHub projects. There are still five projects and they’re still open source, but this week… you get them on a Wednesday! “Hooray!” yell all our loyal GitHub-loving readers in overjoyed unison. That’s totally what’s happening right now. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving! #1: Interact.js Interact.js is … continue reading
#1: MetricsGraphics MetricsGraphics is a creation from the minds of the mad Web scientists at Mozilla. The JavaScript library is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data, providing a simple way to produce common types of graphics such as line charts, scatterplots and histograms in a consistent and responsive way. #2: Flow was featured … continue reading
Google has announced it will be retiring the Google Wallet API on March 2, 2015. The API was designed to allow users and merchants to buy and sell digital goods. Payments will continue to be processed through Google Wallet until March 2, 2015 and developers will continue to have access to the merchant center until … continue reading
#1. Corefx Corefx is a repository for the recently open-sourced .NET Core, featuring the foundational libraries that make it up. According to the project page, the repository doesn’t currently contain the entire set, but it does include immutable collections, an ECMA-335 metadata reader, SIMD-enabled vector types, and XML. More information about .NET Core is available … continue reading
Updates to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Azure and the .NET Framework were announced at a New York City event today that was live-streamed to an estimated 250,000 developers around the world. Public previews of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 are being made available today—along with new cross-platform tools in Visual Studio 2015—while .NET … continue reading
For a long time, GitHub’s business plan was simply packing up its website and service code, then reselling it to enterprises as GitHub Enterprise, an on-premise version of the popular Web-based version-control system. Today, however, the company released GitHub Enterprise 2.0, which includes many of the enterprise-standard features users have been asking for from the … continue reading
#1: Walkway Walkway is a simplified means of animating SVG elements. Developed by Connor Atherton, this small library re-creates the animations from Polygon’s PlayStation4 review. It creates new Walkway instances with a supplied options object, using .draw to start animating the call on the returned instance, providing an optional callback for when drawing is complete, along … continue reading
Happy Halloween, GitHub fans! Sadly there is nothing remotely spooky about this weeks trending open-source projects, but they’re awesome just the same. #1: Openage Openage is a volunteer project organized by SFT Technologies to create a free engine clone of the Age of Empires II game, primarily aimed at POSIX platforms such as GNU and Linux. According … continue reading
#1: Material Design Icons Developers and app designers have gone so crazy over Material Design, Google decided to open-source the icons itself. These official open-source icons featured in Google’s Material Design specification include SVG versions of all icons in both 24px and 48px flavors, SVG and CSS sprites of all icons, and separate versions of the icons targeted … continue reading
#1: PerfMap This front-end performance heat map from Mark Zeman is a bookmarklet to of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API. Once installed, the bookmarklet overlays a performance heatmap over the web page to indicate user experience with interactive timing when the mouse hovers over a particular spot. PerfMap is only available on … continue reading
The GitHub Student Developer Pack GitHub has partnered with a host of commercial and open-source platforms to release the GitHub Student Developer Pack. The developer pack provides students with free access to developer tools. “There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive,” John Britton, education liaison … continue reading
#1: Material design for Bootstrap This week’s top project is an easy way to use the new Material Design guidelines by Google in Bootstrap 3-based applications. Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and add JavaScript at the end of the document, and the theme converts everything to Material Design style. Developed by … continue reading
