Tools

Tools, Demos and Projects that are worth keeping a close eye on, learning, and making use of in development projects :

Easy plugins for data visualisation.

Brilliant ! Just brilliant !  See the galley of examples, and then work work backwards from there to get into the code.

Shows what becomes possible when Javascript performance is a reality. Real time FFT and beat detection ... in the browser.

A portable UI description language, that works across webkit / iOS / whatever. No more HTML / CSS or platform specific hacks.

Write immersive UIs in JSON, and have them work across all platforms. Very very cool stuff in here. Has big backing from HP.

For such a rich UI, it provides snappy performance on an Android eeePC 4G, which is quite impressive.

Open toolkit for videconferencing / audio streaming in web apps. Need this for the remote gameplay portion of the project.



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Useful Node.js Liblets :

Static HTTP server to add in to your project, offload all the grunt work of serving static pages, without polluting your routing code. Just point node-static to a directory, and give it a port .. done.

Documentation generator .. produce markdown docs directly from code. Nice. (who really has time to produce documentation anyway ? .. haha)

Use the fullscreen background to render a slideshow (jQuery based) ... works very well. I want to use something like this for walking around strategic level maps, leaving the control widgets in the foreground.




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