Pie in the Sky Cloud-Related Links

Curator's Note: Every week, the Silver Lining blog releases a list of interesting links for readers interested in a variety of topics and technologies.  These were from February 22.

• Node v0.8.20 released: Another week, another Node.js release.

• Enabling Remote Desktop on Ubuntu in Windows Azure: Not an SSH person? More familiar with Remote Desktop? Learn how to enable Remote Desktop to your Ubuntu VM hosted in Windows Azure.

• Released: ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in Context: Scott Hansleman talks about the new ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 release. Lots of good stuff if you’re a Visual Studio user.

• Song of GitHub: Turn down the lights and pour yourself a glass of wine, while your browser plays sweet midi music to the tune of your GitHub contributions.

• Implementing an ORM in Coffeescript – Part 1: Ryan Lefevre starts a series on creating a new ORM using Coffeescript.

• Fantastic front-end performance, part 2: caching dynamic content with etagify: How to use etagify to cache dynamic content. Nifty!

• Game engines: A big list of HTML5 based game engines and frameworks, for all you game developers out there.

• AngularJS collaboration board with Socket.IO: How to create a notification board using Node.js, AngularJS, and Socket.IO.

• Navi.js Content Switcher: Navi.js lets you dynamically switch what content is displayed within a single web page. Checkout the demos for some examples of how it can be used.