If I had to pick *one* library for a topic, what would I pick today?

libraries.md

Libraries

If I had to pick one library for a topic, what would I pick today?

Python

• XML / HTML Parser: lxml lxml html5lib
• Tabular data: Pandas tabular
• HTTP: requests or httplib2
• YAML: PyYAML
• Web app: tornado
• Templates: tornado jinja2
• Authorisation: tornado gaema
• Date parser: python-dateutil
• Linguistics: nltk
• Machine learning: scikit-learn
• CSS: cssutils
• Scraping: scrapy
• Feed parser: feedparser
• Feed generator: django
• Node graphs: NodeBox
• Video: PyMedia 2.5
• SOAP: suds for client and soaplib for server
• EXE creation: py2exe
• Amazon: boto
• Documentation: pycco sphinx
• Tasks: torque
• GUI: wxPython
• Excel: xlrd/xlwt
• RS-232: pySerial
• USB: PyUSB pysb
• Date prettyprint: py-pretty

Also see useful modules

Windows binaries can be found at:

• Unofficial Windows binaries
• UCI
• PythonXY

HTML / CSS

• Template: HTML5 Boilerplate
• CSS extension: less
• CSS framework: Bootstrap YUI Grids
• CSS themes: bootswatch | {wrap}bootstrap
• Testing: webdevchecklist
• PHP RSS: SimplePie

Javascript

• DOM: jQuery
• Feature detection: Modernizr
• Loading scripts: RequireJS head.js
• Templates: underscore mustache
• Graphs: D3 Raphael Protovis Google Visualisation API
• Touchgraph: D3 Arbor.js
• Sortable tables: DataTables or Stupid Table
• Layouts: Isotope
• 3D: Morpheus
• Markdown: marked
• Syntax highlighter: SyntaxHighlighter
• Code prettify: Google Code Prettify
• Rich text editor: RTE
• Scrolling: jQuery.scrollTo
• CSS3: eCSStender
• Hyphenation: Hyphenator
• TTYRec players: jsttyplay, ttyplayer
• Copy to clipboard: Zero clipboard
• HTML5 forms: webforms2 and html5widgets

R libraries

• Graphs: ggplot2
• Data reshaping: plyr, reshape
• Decision trees: rpart, party
• SVM: e1071
• Zipf Mandelbrot: zipfR
• Random Forest: randomForest
• Date manipulation: https://github.com/hadley/lubridate

Media

• Background music: Incompetech
• Background music: http://soundcloud.com/
• Background music: http://myspoonful.com/
• Background music: http://ccmixter.org/
• Background music: http://www.archive.org/details/audio
• Background music: http://freemusicarchive.org/
• Colour blindness: CSV Image File Converter
• Textures: Subtle patterns http://bgpatterns.com/
• Favicon: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
• Icons: Icomoon IconFinder See http://uxmovement.com/resources/8-best-resources-for-interface-icons/
• Photos: stock.xchng
• Clipart: http://www.openclipart.org
• Zoomable photos: Zoom.it

Wordpress themes

• Theme Shaper
• ThemeLab
• Theme Hybrid
• Arras Theme
• Smashing Magazine
• Dynamic WP

tools.md

Tools

Right now, this is just a dump of some of the software I have installed. Will update.

• 7-Zip SFX Maker
• 7zip
• appengine
• Audacity
• CamStudio
• casper
• Desktops.exe
• dokan-sshfs-0.6.0
• ec2
• Firefox
• Foxit
• GIMP
• IcoFX-favicons
• Inkscape
• jpegoptim.exe
• less.js-windows
• mediacoder
• mongoose.exe
• neo4j
• nginx
• node.js
• PDFTKBuilder
• phantomjs
• putty
• redis
• refine
• ResEdit
• Scratch
• ShapeViewer.exe
• Skype
• sqlite3.exe
• SublimeText
• Teamviewer
• Thunderbird
• TightVNC
• Truecrypt
• utils
• utorrent
• virtualdub
• VLC
• windiff.exe
• WinDirStat
• xampp
• xpdf
• youtube-dl
• ZoomIt.exe

Active Python 2.7

pip install

• ipython: REPL
• tornado: visualisation via templates
• tabular: CSV data processing
• pycco: documentation
• PyYAML: YAML parsing
• python-dateutil: Date processing (pip install python-dateutil==1.5)
• httplib2: download with caching

Download and install

• numpy
• scipy: all scientific compution
• lxml: scraping
• eyeD3: for Apps/utils/mp3.py (use cygwin, ./configure, make)
• PIL: image manipulation
• wxPython: GUI
• nltk: Text processing
  • corpora/wordnet
  • corpora/stopwords
• pygame: GUI

Cygwin

make, curl, lynx, wget, tidy, mercurial, git, zip, openssh, rsync,
optipng, pdftk, imagemagick

optional: sqlite3, sgrep, subversion
node.js compilation requires: gcc4-g++, pkg-config, zlib-devel, openssl, openssl-devel
sox: for music analysis via http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/

Not rxvt: doesn't work with ipython, copy-paste
Not mintty: doesn't work with ipython

Portable Apps

• 7-Zip
• Audacity
• CamStudio Portable
• Firefox Portable
• Foxit Reader Portable
• GIMP
• Google Appengine
• Google Refine
• GraphViz
• IcoFX
• Inkscape
• join.me
• nginx
• ntlmaps
• PicPick
• phantomjs
• qhull
• Skype Portable
• Sublime Text
  • SublimeLint
• TeamViewer
• TrueCrypt
• VirtualDub
• VLC
• wkhtml2pdf
• XAMPP
• xpdf

Installed

• AutoHotKey
• ClipX
• Dropbox
• Fiddler2
• K-Lite Codec Pack Full
• Gephi
• Google Talk
• JDK
• Kindle
• Linkchecker
• Microsoft Reader
• NitroPDF Reader
• Paint.NET
• RStudio (not R). install.packages: reshape, ggplot2
• redis
• VirtualPC
• Windows Live Writer

Pending software

CouchDB
FWTools2.4.7
Google Calendar Sync
IETester
Junction Link Magic
K-Lite Codec Pack
MediaCoder
TeraCopy

Other configuration notes

• Security options: secpol.msc: Local Policies\Security Options
• X-mouse
• cacert.pem