Redis, that super quick key value pair data store which integrated support for hashes has made my life easier for message queuing and session management.
Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
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#132Juce:
http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce.php
It makes cross-platform native app development easy, and is a huge leg up for audio work.
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#133video + canvas + v8 js engine
2011 we will see in-browser video editing
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#134Probably redundant to mention it here but hands down and by a country mile: news.ycombinator.com aka Hacker News.
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#135Flourish Unframework for PHP (http://flourishlib.com) I've looked at it in the past, but this was the first time I was able to work in it professional thanks to a change in career.
It's a really great core library for building web applications, takes the 1389408103 functions in PHP and produces a nice modular library that gives you everything you need and nothing you don't.
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#1361) MongoDB - I started off using it in place of a few tables that had some varied column requirements, and I'm now in the middle of converting my entire DB to it. So awesome. 2) Kohana - I love working with this framework. I never really worry about the ugly warts in PHP, because honestly? I'm not programming in PHP any more. I'm programming in Kohana, and I only occasionally fall back to PHP for "low-level" stuff.
I was trying to get into Kohana but I just couldn't find any good guides to get started and to show me all the various features.
Sorry I'm a little late to get back to you on this, HOWEVER, Kohana just released version 3.0.9, which includes a revamped user guide with full examples and details and tutorials:
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#137haXe + FlashDevelop. http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Feature... Lightning fast compilation and IDE plus a language that can target multiple platforms = major time savings for a bootstrapped startup.
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#138Definitely Rails 3 for me. I've started taking it more seriously and developing with it professionally.
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#139The iPad has changed everything. It's an entirely new type of computer that turned out to be substantially better than anyone imagined. Watch a 5-year-old use an iPad for the first time and you will immediately see and understand why this is a major paradigm shift. It's the first "socially acceptable" computer -- at Christmas I can pull out my iPad, plop it down at the dinner table and share pictures with the family,…
The iPad is an entirely new type of computer? You mean, like a pad computer as suggested by Wieser in the 90s? > turned out to be substantially better than anyone imagined By anyone you mean analysts, right?
You mean, like a pad computer as suggested by Wieser in the 90s?
I mean like a kids computer, and a socially acceptable computer, as I said so. The physical form factor isn't what's new, the implementation, software, use cases, and the whole experience is what's new.
By anyone you mean analysts, right?
By anyone, I mean everyone who I've shown an iPad to. Most people don't get it, initially, but after a few minutes of playing with it, seeing their kids play with it, watching funny youtube videos together etc, everyone basically admits they didn't think it would be as good as it is.
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#140#1 - MongoDB: see comments above. :)
#2 - Redis: also see comments above. ;)
#3 - new to me: Twisted as a server framework; more specific Cyclone which is a Twisted-based clone of the Tornado server framework.
http://github.com/fiorix/cyclone/
Comes with built-in MongoDB (TxMongo) and Redis (TxRedisAPI) support too! :)