Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by gfodor » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:09 AM UTC

Clojure & CoffeeScript are the one-two punch this year.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by mkramlich » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:10 AM UTC

#1: SSD

#2: MongoDB

#3: iPad

though I have not used them significantly, I have sort of drooled from afar over: Twilio, Redis, Node.js, Clojure and Kindle

(ok some of the above are not super new-new, but new enough to me)

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by rviswanadha » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:10 AM UTC

1. Node.JS 2. ExpressJS 3. Mongoose 4. MongoDB

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by mjuhl24 » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:13 AM UTC

This is not a new technology, but new for me this year was working with MVC frameworks for web development. My workflow has vastly improved because of it. Specifically, the Play Framework (java/scala) and Rails 3.0 (ruby) have been great new additions to the many available.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by peteforde » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:16 AM UTC

I was shocked by how powerful SproutCore was, once I actually started hacking on it. I suspect that it will be a very big deal in 2011.

I am also really excited by socket protocol tech advancements in the browser. I was able to pull off seriously cool stuff using http://pusherapp.com/ and also http://faye.jcoglan.com/ which is a nifty JS implementation of the Bayeux protocol.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by calicoder » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:21 AM UTC

Rendy wrote: post #38

The Google Map API v3 is pretty nice.

+1

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by tarikjn » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:27 AM UTC

PHP and Visual Basic

...kidding :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by mrkurt » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:28 AM UTC

Firesheep, actually. It took a scary-to-people-who-know problem and made it scary to people who don't know. I didn't ever expect to explain session hijacking to my dad.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by kefeizhou » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:29 AM UTC

1. MongoDB - I see several people also listed mongodb but I particularly want to mention the simplicity of setting up the database and using the API.

2. AndroidOS - It came out few years back but it really took off in 2010. I can’t wait to see the new features for 2011 and how it’ll fare against iOS.

3. Python - even though I’ve been using python for several years I’m still constantly surprised by it’s core features (recently coroutines) and it's plethora of awesome third-party libraries.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

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Post by morganpyne » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 2:29 AM UTC

Most of these are not new to 2010 and some are quite old, but here goes:

- All the Amazon offerings. They are innovating like crazy and improving and expanding all their offerings all the time.

- Compass/SASS/SCSS - All the pain gone from CSS

- Capistrano - All the pain gone from software deployment

- Apple laptops & OS X. A bit on the clichéd side now but it really makes my life easier.

- SSDs. Damnit I really need to buy one of these things. After having tried them out it's hard to go back to spinning platters.

Also things I wish I'd worked with but haven't had the chance yet:

- anything in the CNC milling, laser cutting, desktop fabrication and 3d printing fields. This is a huge area to watch.