Fun Links 2013-08-09

Bit of a random selection today that will hopefully interest most.

MessagePack
http://msgpack.org/
It’s like JSON, but fast and small.

Primus
https://github.com/3rd-Eden/primus
An abstraction layer for real-time communication libraries in Node.js

Reactive Extensions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609
Simply put, Reactive Extensions (Rx) = Observables + LINQ + Schedulers. (.NET)

Orangevolt Ampere
http://lgersman.github.io/jquery.orangevolt-ampere/
Single page web applications based on state machines. I would recommend taking a look at the slides first: http://lgersman.github.io/jquery.orangevolt-ampere/slides/