“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone …. I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
Slider.js - Slideshow with jQuery, CSS Transitions and Canvas
The canvas transitions are definitely the most interesting to me, and this provides nice wrapper code to create custom canvas animation functions. Performance appears to be a huge advantage over CSS.
“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”
— Blaise Pascal, 1657
(Source: en.wikiquote.org)
Gundo - Visualize your Vim Undo Tree
From the homepage:
“You know that Vim lets you undo changes like any text editor. What you might not know is that it doesn’t just keep a list of your changes — it keeps a goddamed tree of them.
Gundo is a plugin to make browsing this ridiculously powerful undo tree less painful.”
Definitely exceeded my expectations and is becoming one of my favorite plugins. Building in a diff view is genius.
Nifty Git Cheatsheet Visualization.
Raphael JS
Amazing framework for SVG in a browser.
Advantages over canvas include DOM scripting, scaling, and events support to help with interactive animations.
[ Python & Ruby Log ]
Author: Jason R Seney
Key: [+ good] [- bad] [~ indifferent]
_____( Python )____
+ Exellent scientific computation libraries
- No syntatic markup, just indents
+ Tons of built in functionality
+ Consise code
+ Easy imports
+ Has automatic enumeration with ” for i in array: “
~ Many functions are global for type “casting”
ex: str(x) where x=4 , len(myList) where myList = [1,2,3]
_____( Ruby )_____
+ Interactive mode usefull for quick tests of code
+ AWSOME Regex support! Sooo easy to use and get back references
ex. “This is a test”.match(/(\w+) (\w+)) puts x[0] puts x[1]
- No support for incrementors/decrementors ( “n++” or “—i” etc)
- Can use {} or “do … end” or “if … end” which leads to inconsistancy
- Uses blocks instead of for(int i=0; i
