developer-resources.md

Creative Developer Resources

Below is a collection of links and tools used in my day to day life as a creative developer. There are a few stages of this from Frontend, Middleware, Database, Creative, DevOps and General Tools. This is intended to be a living document of these resources.

Standards

Libraries

jQuery
Backbone
SASS

Getting Started

HTML5BP
Bootstrap (HTML/CSS/JS)

Reading

http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
http://alistapart.com/
http://www.phptherightway.com/

Newletters

http://web-design-weekly.com/
http://html5weekly.com/
http://javascriptweekly.com

Learn

JS - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/cs/programming
Chrome Dev Tools - http://discover-devtools.codeschool.com/
Git - http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
Backbone - http://ricostacruz.com/backbone-patterns/
Sublime Text - https://tutsplus.com/course/improve-workflow-in-sublime-text-2/
Dev Tools - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyM37XKkmKQ
Dev Tools Productivity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVSo4buDAEE

Browser Plugins

PageSpeed Insights
YSlow EditThisCookie - Browser cookie manager JSONView - Pretty JSON Formatting within chrome

Other Resources

http://liquidapsive.com/ (Responsive/Adaptive/Fluid/Static Examples)

Social Tools

Facebook Debugger
Facebook Graph API
Twitter Cards
Tweet Buttons
Pinterest Pin It

Advanced Frontend

Yeoman (Generators)
Grunt (Build Tools)
Modernizr (Feature Detection)
Backbone Mixins

Testing

Jasmine - http://jasmine.github.io/2.0/introduction.html
Karma - http://karma-runner.github.io/0.12/index.html

General Resources

Team Collaboration

Slack - https://slack.com/is/team-communication
IRC - http://www.codeux.com/textual/
Screen Sharing - https://join.me/ Screen Sharing - http://screenhero.com/

Git

Github Training - http://training.github.com/kit/slides/github-foundations.html#/
Source Tree - http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ sc

System Setup

https://gist.github.com/corbanb/10900154 //TODO: brew cask all apps in downloads

Creative

Mind Mapping - https://mindnode.com/
Notes - http://evernote.com/
UI Sketching - https://www.fiftythree.com/paper)
Responive Design - http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/

Services Status

Github - https://status.github.com/
Heroku - https://status.heroku.com/
New Relic - https://status.newrelic.com/
AWS - http://status.aws.amazon.com/
NPM - http://status.npmjs.org/
Gems - http://status.rubygems.org/
Codeship - http://status.codeship.io/

Inspiration

Interactive Annual - http://www.commarts.com/annuals/2014-interactive
UI - http://capptivate.co/
Design - http://dribbble.com/
Explore Github - https://github.com/exploreore
Responive Design - http://mediaqueri.es/

Mobile

Phone - http://phonegap.com/
PhoneGap + Stero - http://www.appgyver.com/im/
JQuery Mobile - http://jquerymobile.com/m/

Middleware

Frameworks

Express (Node) - http://expressjs.com/guide.html#executable
Slim (PHP) - http://docs.slimframework.com/
Rails (Ruby) - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Meteor (Node) - https://www.meteor.com/

Debugging

Node Inspector
PHP XDebug and Browser Plugin
Rails Panel
Postman (REST Client)
Charles (Web Debugging Proxy)
xScope - Visual/pixel perfection tool

Database

SQL Tools

SQL - http://www.sequelpro.com/
Postgres - http://woollyapp.com/
Postgres Heroku - https://dataclips.heroku.com/
Navicat - http://www.navicat.com/

NoSQL Tools

Mongo - http://robomongo.org/

DevOps

Package Managers

Gems (Ruby) - http://bundler.io/
NPM (Node) - https://www.npmjs.org/
Bower (JS/CSS) - http://bower.io/
Composer (PHP) - https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
Homebrew (OSX) - http://brew.sh/
Brewcask (OSX) - https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask

Hosting

AWS - http://aws.amazon.com/
Rackspace - http://www.rackspace.com/
Heroku (Node/Rails) - http://heroku.com/
Acquia (Drupal) - http://acquia.com/

Heroku Buildpacks

Nginx + PHP-FPM

Servers

Nginx - http://wiki.nginx.org/LearnToNginx
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
SPDY - https://developers.google.com/speed/spdy/
Unicorn (Ruby) - http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
Thin (Ruby) - http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/
Forever (Node) - https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever

Server Setup

Ubuntu + Nginx + Pagespeed

Ops

Code Climate - https://codeclimate.com/
Codeship - https://www.codeship.io
New Relic - http://newrelic.com/
Capistrano - http://capistranorb.com/
Logstash - http://logstash.net/

Virtualization

Berkshelf - http://berkshelf.com/
Chef - http://www.getchef.com/
Vagrant - http://www.vagrantup.com/
Vagrant Boxes - http://www.vagrantbox.es/
Docker - https://www.docker.io/

Cloud Automation

JuJu - https://juju.ubuntu.com/
OpsWorks - http://aws.amazon.com/opsworks

Reading

PHP The Right Way - http://www.phptherightway.com/
Patterns for Large Scale Js Apps - http://addyosmani.com/largescalejavascript/
Scable Web Architecture - http://www.aosabook.org/en/distsys.html

Newsletters

Postgres Weekly - http://postgresweekly.com/
DB Weekly - http://dbweekly.com/
Node Weekly - http://nodeweekly.com/
Ruby Weekly - http://rubyweekly.com/
PHP Weekly - http://www.phpweekly.com/
Hacker Newsletter - http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

Physical

Tessel - https://tessel.io/
Ardunio - http://arduino.cc/
Arduino Trending Repos - https://github.com/trending?l=arduino&since=weekly

Security

Sites

OWASP - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page

Tools

Kali Linux (Automated Testing Tools) - http://www.kali.org/

Virtual Machines

VMWare Fusion - https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

Other

Password Management - 1Password