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Libraries

jQuery - The de-facto library for the modern age. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
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.
AngularJS - Conventions based MVC framework for HTML5 apps.
Underscore - Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
lawnchair - Key/value store adapter for indexdb, localStorage

Gems

Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generate, and specs/tests take less than one second.
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Packages

lxml - Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services
Django - Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Fabric - Library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration task.
PyMongo - Tools for working with MongoDB, and is the recommended way to work with MongoDB from Python.
Celery - Task queue to distribute work across threads or machines.
pytz - pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.4 or higher.

Guides

Libraries

960 Grid System - An effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
Compass - Open source CSS Authoring Framework.
Bootstrap - Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for Bootstrap.
Zurb Foundation - Framework for writing responsive web sites.
SASS - CSS extension language which allows variables, mixins and rules nesting.
Skeleton - Boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development.

Guides

One of the many reasons I love working with Ruby is it has a rich vocabulary that allows you to accomplish your goals with a minimal amount of code. If there isn't a method that does exactly what you want, it's usually possible to build an elegant solution yourself.

Let's take the example of simulating the rolling of a die.

We can represent a die as an array of its faces.

die = [*?⚀..?⚅]
# => ["⚀", "⚁", "⚂", "⚃", "⚄", "⚅"]

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	## disconnect

	# ./disconnect.rb -u yourusername [-o /your/path] [-p yourhttpproxyserver]
	#
	# This is a command-line utility for the bulk-downloading of run data from
	# the connect.garmin.com web application, which has lackluster export
	# capabilities.
	#


	How to setup Heroku Hostname SSL with GoDaddy SSL Certificate and Zerigo DNS
	Heroku recently added an exciting new 'Hostname SSL' option. This option offers the broad compatibility of IP-based SSL, but at 1/5 the price ($20 / month at the time of this writing).

	The following tutorial explains how to use Heroku's new 'Hostname SSL' option on your Heroku project. Before we begin, let's list what we're using here:

	* Heroku Hostname SSL
	* GoDaddy Standard SSL Certificate
	* Zerigo DNS

	def get_character(hexnum)
	char = ''
	char << hexnum.to_i(16)
	end


	# 1.install gource using HomeBrew
	$ brew install gource

	# 2.install avconv
	git clone git://git.libav.org/libav.git
	cd libav
	# it will take 3-5 minutes to complie, be patient.
	./configure --disable-yasm
	make && make install

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console