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Using Git to manage a web site

After more years than I care to remember using CVS and then SVN for “lazy” automated deployment of versioned websites, I’m finding more and more reasons to use Git instead. Setup is much the same as SVN, but switching between versions and maintaining integration and live branches is so much easier in Git. (IMO)

JSLint is on GitHub

Source code to Douglas Crockford’s JSLint tool. Definitely something to integrate into more apps using nodejs.

Prettify

Library for prettifying code. Nice.

Initializr

Cute tool for creating HTML5 templates.

Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time

Some useful learning to be had here for JS padwan.

Cloud Edits for Google Project Hosting

Previously @jresig tried a Google Chrome laptop (Cr-48) and hihlighed that for hardcore coding it’s not up to snuff. This looks like the first response that begins to make cloud-based contribution to open source projects really very easy.

Google APIs

APIs, thousands of ‘em. Don’t code ’till you see the #FFFs of their eyes lads.

JSConf.eu ☠ 2010

Talks from JSConf.eu now online.

Cloud9 IDE – Ajax.org

Cloud9 IDE is an online platform for Javascript development. All code is open source and free to adapt and use.

JS Bin – Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

Remy’s rather useful JS Bin

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

Very aesthetically pleasing 3D renderings of the Mandelbrot Set

Extending HTML5 — Microformats | HTML5 Doctor

HTML5s meta tag can now include pre-defined names with specific semantics. This article provides a few examples of their use. See also, the spec.

Bespin / Skywriter Bookmarklet

Use bespin on any page that has a text area that you’d normally enter html or javascript into.

Mozilla Skywriter

The bespin project has a new name. Mozilla’s cloud based HTML5 editor ++ is now called Skywriter.

The Official Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate | Nettuts+

Online javascript beautifier

Code Tutorial Blueprint

I just watched a nice presentation by Yahoo evangelist Christian Heilmann who opened the show at FF09 yesterday. Whilst there’s a lot of good ideas throughout regarding the maintainability of JavaScript code, one nugget stood out about code tutorials. Christian Suggests a four pronged presentation strategy when writing tutorials for designers – it is equally …