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QueryPosts – better WordPress code reference More comprehensive and up-to-date than Codex. More friendly and convenient than raw code and cross-references.

pathod pathod is a pathological HTTP/S daemon, useful for testing and torturing HTTP clients. (…) The simplest way to use pathod is to fire up the daemon, and specify the response behaviour you want using this language in the request URL.

Beercamp 2012 Really cool demo with CSS 3D transforms.

PaintCode – Stop writing your drawing code The missing bridge between programmers and graphic designers. Designing a gorgeous, resolution-independent user interface is hard, especially if you have to program your drawing code. PaintCode is a simple vector drawing app that instantly generates resolution-independent Objective-C drawing code for both Mac OS X and iOS. You no longer have to tweak and recompile your drawing code over and over again to achieve the desired result. With PaintCode, a graphic designer with no programming experience can draw beautiful controls, icons and other user interface elements, and the app automatically generates a code that is equally beautiful. ...

Pears are common patterns of markup & style Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. Pears is an open source WordPress theme, enabling people like you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly.

TodoMVC – A common learning application for popular JavaScript MV* frameworks (…) a project which offers the same Todo application implemented using MV* concepts in most of the popular JavaScript MV* frameworks of today. Solutions look and feel the same, have a common simple feature-set and make it easy for you to compare the syntax and structure of different frameworks so you can select the one you feel the most comfortable with. ...

browserling – interactive cross-browser testing We run the browsers on our servers. Fully interactive sessions, not static screenshots. No flash, no applets, nothing to install. Powered entirely by and javascript.

Requests: HTTP for Humans — Requests 0.10.2 documentation Requests takes all of the work out of Python HTTP — making your integration with web services seamless. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic (…)

Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew Command Line Tools for Xcode: This package enables UNIX-style development via Terminal by installing command line developer tools, as well as Mac OS X SDK frameworks and headers.

xScope Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.

Web API Versioning Smackdown | mnot’s blog The key insight here, I think, is that URIs are used for so many things — persistent identifiers, cache keys, bases for relative resolution, bookmarks — that overloading them with versioning and extensibility information as well makes them worse for all of their various purposes. By pushing these concerns into link relations and media types using HATEOS, you end up with a flexible, future-proof system that can evolve in a controllable way, without giving up the benefits of using HTTP (never mind REST). ...

Network Link Conditioner in Lion » Matt Legend Gemmell Extremely handy for simulating less than optimal network conditions while testing an app.

The software is wrong, not the people. Matt Mullenweg (vai Joe Flood )

Three20 Three20 is a open source Objective-C library used by dozens of well-known brands in the App Store, including Facebook, Posterous, Pulse, Meetup.com, and SCVNGR. Three20 provides powerful view controllers such as the Launcher, the popular Photo Browser, and internet-aware tables.

Navicat – Premium Overview – A cross-database admin and data migration GUI admin tools. It supports MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, SQL Azure, Oracle & PostgreSQL for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux – Download Now! Navicat Premium is a multi-connections Database Administration tool allowing you to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases simultaneously within a single application, making database administration to multiple kinds of database so easy. ...

iPhone Game Development Tutorials | 71² Video screencasts of iPhone Game Development tutorials.

The Paradox of Portuguese Entrepreneurship I guess that the small company, the on-the-side project, both usually complemented by a “real” job or a consulting gig providing “safety” (and most of all social approval), are the nowadays version of the hairdresser salon.