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."