“an in-house programming language for writing rich web applications in about 10% of the time and code you can today.” Goes from a declarative language into a complied front/backend web 2.0-style application.
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PhoneGap
“PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.”
jQTouch
“A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.”
jQuery Masonry
Neat plugin that allows you to position things on a “vertical” grid rather than a “horizontal” one, so that all your blocks take up less vertical space and mesh up better.
zen-coding
An awesome plugin for TextMate that gives you a really powerful “abbreviation” syntax for writing blocks of HTML and CSS really quickly.
hurl
A web service for testing web services. Performs HTTP requests and gives you the full request/response. Allows you to save requests etc
WordCamp NYC Round Up
This past weekend, WordCamp NYC was held at Baruch College in New York. It was (I believe) the second biggest WordCamp to date, if not the biggest (by number of attendees), right up there with WordCamp San Francisco. WCNYC was an incredibly busy event, with so much great WordPress stuff going on at any one time that it was hard to decide what to attend. I was lucky enough to be able to present/be involved in not just one, but 4 presentations throughout the weekend, and I wanted to get some slides and details up here for reference.
Closure Compiler/Library
“Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it will run fast on browsers’ JavaScript engines.”
Charles Web Debugging Proxy
“Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).”
The Duct Tape Programmer
Awesome article on the non-design-pattern, non-over-architecting approach to software development. It’s all about getting shit done, and shipping product.