1.c. Utilities: Developing for the web

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Front-end:

HTML5 boilerplate - http://html5boilerplate.com/ JqueryUI - http://jqueryui.com/ AngularJS - http://angularjs.org/ Backbonejs - http://backbonejs.org/ EmberJS - http://emberjs.com/ CanJS - http://canjs.com/ YUI library - http://yuilibrary.com/ Twitter Bootstrap - http://twitter.github.com/bootst... Gumby framework - http://gumbyframework.com/ xchema xtyle - http://xtyle.xchema.com NinjaUI - http://ninjaui.com/ CoffeeScript - http://coffeescript.org/ Stylus css - http://learnboost.github.com/sty... Less css - http://lesscss.org/ SaSS css - http://sass-lang.com/ Cappuccino - http://cappuccino.org/ Jasmine - http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/ Mocha - http://visionmedia.github.com/mo... QUnit -http://qunitjs.com/ CodeKit - http://incident57.com/codekit/ Grunt - https://github.com/cowboy/grunt Yeoman - http://yeoman.io/ ComponentJS - http://component.io/ TodoMVC - http://todomvc.com/

Back-end:

Servers and networking: Vagrant (virtualization) - http://vagrantup.com/ Puppet (automation) - http://puppetlabs.com/ ZeroMQ (sockets) - http://www.zeromq.org/ RabbitMQ (messages) - http://www.rabbitmq.com/

PHP:

Laravel Framework - http://laravel.com/ CodIgniter Framework - http://codeigniter.com/ Wordpress Framework - http://wordpress.org/ Joomla Framework - http://www.joomla.org/

JavaScript:

nodeJS - http://nodejs.org/ Express Framework - http://expressjs.com/ Socket.io - http://socket.io/ Meteor - http://www.meteor.com/ Derby - http://derbyjs.com/ TowerJS - http://towerjs.org/ Geddy - http://geddyjs.org/ Mojito - http://developer.yahoo.com/cockt...

Python:

Flask - http://flask.pocoo.org/ Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/

Ruby:

Rails - http://rubyonrails.org/ Sinatra - http://www.sinatrarb.com/

Java:

Hibernate (ORM)- http://www.hibernate.org/ Play framework - http://www.playframework.org/