In this page, we will capture standards and practices that are relevant to browser platforms & cloud.
Application Design
- NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques, March 2012
- Building Scalable Databases: Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg, September 2009
Browser
- ECMAScript Language Specification, ECMA-262.
- Introducing Multi-thread Programming to JavaScript, July 2008
- Dive into HTML5
- 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web
- The Canvas Grid - The Image
- HTML5 - Edition for Web Developers
- Getting Started with WebGL
- Yahoo! Style Guide
- HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet
- Progressive Enhancement 101: Overview and Best Practices
- HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World
- Yahoo! Graded Browser Support
- Addy Osmani. Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners. May 2011
- REST: A Tutorial
- Learn CSS3 From A - Z: Getting Started With Layouts
- HTML5 Developers Network
- CSS3 Rocks - Building a Custom CSS Button
Cloud
A Cloud has to deal with computing, networking & storage resources in a way that each of these resources can be virtualized individually and collectively to enable complete multi-tenancy.
- Cloud Standards Wiki
- Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (2009)
- Cloud Computing - Cisco Systems
- Cloud Computing Payback by IBM
- Cloud Computing Journal
- Cloud Computing Topic Center - InfoWorld
- On IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Cloud Computing
- ACM Tech Pack on Cloud Computing: Annotated Bibliography
- OpenFlow
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- Google Cloud MapReduce Page
- Cloud MapReduce: a MapReduce Implementation on top of a Cloud Operating System
- Alchemy Database: A Hybrid Relational-Database/NOSQL-Datastore
- NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap
- NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
- Daniel Jacobson, Greg Brail & Dan Woods. APIs: A Strategy Guide. O'Reilly Press, 2011.
Cloud - OpenStack
Data Center
- YouTube - CiscoDataCenter2009's Channel
- 42U Data Center Solutions
- High Scalability
- Data Center Knowledge: Data centers, design, power, cooling
- The Data Center Journal
- Data Center, from Wikipedia. This article has a discussion of Tiers I, II, III and IV of Data Centers.
- Data Center Site Infrastructure Tier Standard: Topology, by Uptime Institute, 2009.
- Data Center Map
- Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network
Software Development Management
- Ken Schwaber. Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press. 2004, 163 pages.
- The GROWS Method™
- Your Path through Agile Fluency. August 2012
- WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL CRASH COURSE IN DESIGN THINKING