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Node.js<\/a> is a JavaScript engine for command-line development. It’s optimized for creating server applications in JavaScript. Node comes with a package manager, npm. There are many extensions to node.js. It’s useful for all kinds of desktop applications, from HTTP to Bluetooth LE to DMX-512, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PhoneGap<\/a> is a cross-platform development tool for building mobile apps on Android, iOS, and Windows phones. When PhoneGap as a company was sold to Adobe, they donated the open source code base to Apache, which maintains it as Cordova<\/a>. Adobe’s current commercial version of PhoneGap and Apache’s open source version, Cordova, are largely the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital Ocean has many good tutorials, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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![XKCD\u2019s version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Wireless Protocols<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nWiFi Alliance homepage<\/a>\n\nWiFi Frequency Allocations<\/a> – a good breakdown of the WiFi frequency allocations for all the variants of the protocol.<\/li>\n\n\n\nWikipedia has a good page on WiFi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\nBluetooth Alliance Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nZigBee Alliance Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nLoRa Alliance Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nGSM Alliance Homepage<\/a>\n\nGSM Frequency Allocations by country<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Software-Defined Radio<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nRTL-SDR.com<\/a> a site for hobbyists of software-defined radio. Their blog posts are a handy introduction to listening to radio signals vis software-defined radio. They also have a good buyer’s guide to SDR dongles. The About RTL-SDR page<\/a> is a good place to learn what you can do with software-defined radio.<\/li>\n\n\n\nCubicSDR<\/a> – a GUI tool for listening to SDRs<\/li>\n\n\n\nGQRX SDR<\/a> – a GUI tool for listening to SDRs, a favorite of the RTL-SDR community.<\/li>\n\n\n\nNational Weather Service FM bands<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nAirspy<\/a> – a windows-only SDR GUI platform<\/li>\n\n\n\nFlightAware<\/a> – tracking airplane broadcasts on 1090 MHz is a popular hobby among SDR enthusiasts, and FlightAware is the most popular site for resources on this. Their ProStick dongles<\/a> are pretty good RTL-SDR radio dongles for general use as well. They work in about the 24 to 1766 MHz frequency range.<\/li>\n\n\n\nCocoa1090<\/a> is a MAcOS app for scanning for flights using an RTL-SDR dongle. It requires the CocoaRTLServer<\/a> app to connect to the dongle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Networking Software<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Command line tools<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nIntroduction to the command line<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\ncURL<\/a> – a command-line tool for making HTTP requests. Here’s\u00a0a pretty\u00a0good tutorial on how to use it<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\nAn A-Z guide to Linux Command Line tools<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nA good book covering the command line in depth:\u00a0The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction\u00a0<\/a>William E. Shotts Jr, \u00a92019 No Starch Press (NYU Library Permalink). You have online access while on the NYU network or VPN through the library. Click the O\u2019Reilly Online Learning link in the book\u2019s record page.<\/li>\n\n\n\ntraceroute – see also Traceroute mapper, below.<\/li>\n\n\n\nnetcat<\/li>\n\n\n\nping<\/li>\n\n\n\nnslookup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Web-based Tools<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nPostwoman<\/a> -aka Hoppscotch.\u00a0 a web-based tool for formatting and sending HTTP\/HTTPS requests. Think of it as a GUI for cURL.<\/li>\n\n\n\nTraceroute mapper<\/a> – a handy tool that does IP geolocation on your traceroutes. Thanks to Noah Pivnick for the link.<\/li>\n\n\n\nBGPView<\/a> – a tool to view any Autononmous System Number (ASN) and the networks to which it connects. Thanks to Alden Jones for the link.\u00a0 Related, a list of past BGP hijacking incidents<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Desktop Tools<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\nWireshark<\/a>\u00a0is a network packet sniffing tool. It\u2019s very effective for seeing the messages that network devices are sending, and often an essential tool in learning a poorly-documented network protocol.\n\nWireshark user guide\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nChris Sanders’ book Practical Packet Analysis<\/a> is helpful in how to use Wireshark as well.(NYU Library Permalink<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\nWireshark tutorial & cheat sheet<\/a> – a useful collection of Wireshark how-tos, including how to use IP geolocation in Wireshark, how to follow the thread of an entier HTTP transaction, and more.<\/li>\n\n\n\nMaxMind GeoLite<\/a> databases for use with Wireshark. These afford IP geolocation in Wireshark using MaxMind’s geoIP data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\nHerbivore<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a simpler packet sniffer.<\/li>\n\n\n\nCocoa Packet Analyzer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nDebookee<\/a> – another packet analyzer<\/li>\n\n\n\nMac OS X: How to capture a packet trace<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nA\u00a0helpful analysis of the gitHub DDoS attack<\/a>\u00a0in March 2015. Explains how traceroute can be used diagnostically.\u00a0A companion analysis of the GitHub DDoS attack<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Development Platforms<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Node.js<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nNode.js<\/a> is a JavaScript engine for command-line development. It’s optimized for creating server applications in JavaScript. Node comes with a package manager, npm. There are many extensions to node.js. It’s useful for all kinds of desktop applications, from HTTP to Bluetooth LE to DMX-512, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nExpress.js<\/a> is a popular library for creating HTTP\/HTTPs servers.<\/li>\n\n\n\nNode-serialport<\/a>\u00a0is a library for connecting to asynchronous serial ports<\/li>\n\n\n\nNodeExamples<\/a> – a repository of things you can do with node.js<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Learning Guides<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\nThe Node Beginner Book<\/a> \u2013 a useful e-book with many examples. Concentrates a bit too much on making your own server for my tastes; much of what it introduces is better done using express.js. But if you want to understand the concepts behind the express.js library, it\u2019s a good intro.<\/li>\n\n\n\nHands-on Node.js<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Introduces all the core concepts of node, with plenty of examples.<\/li>\n\n\n\nLearning Node <\/a>\u2013 A fairly in-depth intro to node, for those familiar with JavaScript<\/li>\n\n\n\nJavaScript The Good Parts<\/a> \u2013 an intro to JavaScript as a programming language, explaining the most<\/li>\n\n\n\nJavaScript Patterns<\/a> \u2013 Introduction to common programming patterns in JavaScript. Since there are lots of ways to do things in JavaScript, this book is a handy reference for patterns you may not be familiar with.<\/li>\n\n\n\nThe best explanation of closures<\/a> that I\u2019ve found so far<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Mobile Phone Development<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Cordova\/PhoneGap<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nPhoneGap<\/a> is a cross-platform development tool for building mobile apps on Android, iOS, and Windows phones. When PhoneGap as a company was sold to Adobe, they donated the open source code base to Apache, which maintains it as Cordova<\/a>. Adobe’s current commercial version of PhoneGap and Apache’s open source version, Cordova, are largely the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nShawn Van Every\u2019s page on\u00a0setting up a Cordova\/PhoneGap development environment<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nCordova main site<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nTom\u2019s PhoneGap examples<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nDon Coleman\u2019s gitHub site<\/a>\u00a0containing many PhoneGap\/Cordova examples:\n\nble-central<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nNFC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Hosting Services<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nDreamhost<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\nBluehost<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\nGoDaddy<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\nDigital Ocean<\/li>\n\n\n\nAmazon Web Services<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\nHeroku<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Server-Related Links<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nSetting up a node.js sever on Digital Ocean<\/a>\u00a0by Jingwen Zhu<\/li>\n\n\n\nInstalling Nginx on Ubuntu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nInstalling HTTPS certificates<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nDomains and DNS<\/a>\n\nCreating DNS Records<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nRedirecting DNS records<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>MySQL Databases<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nDigital Ocean has many good tutorials, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nInstalling mySQL on Ubuntu<\/a>\n\nIntro to mySQL<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nmySQL cheat sheet<\/a>\u00a0(not DigitalOcean\u2019s, but good)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\nDon Coleman\u2019s\u00a0notes on relational databases<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nMongoDB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Bluetooth LE Resources<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\nDon Coleman\u2019s\u00a0BLE Central plugin\u00a0for Cordova<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\nSandeep Mistry<\/a>\u2018s libraries for node:\n\nnoble<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Making a BLE central device in node.<\/li>\n\n\n\nbleno<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 making a BLE peripheral device in node<\/li>\n\n\n\nnode-sensortag<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 library for discovering and interacting with TI SensorTags<\/li>\n\n\n\nnode-bleacon<\/a>\u00a0-for creating, discovering, and configuring iBeacons<\/li>\n\n\n\narduino-BLEPeripheral<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Arduino library for creating custom BLE peripherals with Nordic Semiconductor\u2019s nRF8001 or nR51822<\/li>\n\n\n\n](\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/electromagnetic_spectrum.png\"){kind=link}