Services and Tools

These are fundamental services and tools that I use and pay the most attention to.

Services

  • Amazon Web Services - Amazon's cloud computing products.
  • Github - "Social coding."
  • Google AdWords API - "The AdWords API allows applications to interact directly with the AdWords platform."
  • Heroku - "Heroku provides services and tools to build, run, and scale web applications."
  • ServInt - "Smart Hosting for Smart Websites - VPS, Dedicated and Cloud solutions."
  • Squarespace - "A better web starts with your website."
  • Xero - "Beautiful accounting software."

Tools

  • Angular - "HTML enhanced for web apps!"
  • Backbone - "Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface."
  • Backgrid - "A set of components for building semantic and easily stylable data grid widgets."
  • Bash - "A command language interpreter."
  • Bootstrap - "Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web."
  • Bower - "A package manager for the web"
  • Browserify - "browser-side require() the node way."
  • Celery - "An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing."
  • Chai "BDD/TDD assertion library for node.js and the browser. Test framework agnostic."
  • Coffeescript - "A little language that compiles into JavaScript."
  • Consul - service discovery and configuration.
  • cPanel/WHM - "Web Hosting Management, Simplified"
  • Django - "Django is a high-level Python Web framework."
  • Docker - "An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins."
  • Express - "Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js."
  • git - "Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency."
  • gulp - "The streaming build system."
  • GnuCash - "GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows."
  • Highcharts - "JavaScript charting engine."
  • homebrew - "The missing package manager for OS X."
  • Jasmine - "Behavior-Driven JavaScript."
  • Javascript
  • jQuery - "jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library."
  • Karma - Test runner.
  • Markdown - "Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers."
  • Marionette - "Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications."
  • MongoDB - "Agility, scalability, performance. Pick three."
  • Mongoose ODM - "Elegant mongodb object modeling for node.js"
  • Nginx - "Load balancer."
  • Node.js - Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.
  • OS X - "Apple's desktop operating system."
  • Packer - "A tool for creating machine and container images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.""
  • PostgreSQL - "Open source object-relational database system."
  • Puppet - "Open source Puppet is a flexible, customizable framework available under the Apache 2.0 license designed to help system administrators automate the many repetitive tasks they regularly perform."
  • Protractor - "End to end testing for AngularJS."
  • Python - "Interactive high-level object-oriented language."
  • Tastypie - "Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Django."
  • Terraform - "Provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure."
  • Underscore - "Underscore is a JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects."
  • Ubuntu - "Operating system."
  • Vagrant - "Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments."