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Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know - Micah Elliott

Why 3-Act Will Kill Your Writing - Micah Elliott

Testrocket is a super simple (as simple as it gets really) testing library for Ruby. - Micah Elliott

Wijmo is a complete kit of over 30 UI widgets with everything from interactive menus to rich charts. If you know jQuery, you know Wijmo. Complete with documentation and professional support, every widget is hand-crafted and includes premium themes. - Micah Elliott

Kendo UI combines everything needed for modern JavaScript development, including a powerful DataSource, universal Drag-and-Drop, Templates, Themes, and UI Widgets. - Micah Elliott

Kanso can be described as the NPM for CouchApps, with tools for installing and publishing shared packages while managing dependencies. The Kanso community provides reusable build-tools, modules, templates and more via the online repository. Kanso's built around a powerful packaging system, meaning almost all the functionality can be customized by you. - Micah Elliott

Recording a macro is a great way to perform a one-time task, or to get things done quickly when you don't want to mess with Vim script or mappings, or if you do not yet know how to do it more elegantly. - Micah Elliott

Tagsistant: semantic filesystem for Linux Tagsistant is a semantic filesystem. So, the question becomes: what is a semantic file system? It's a new way to organize files on disk, using tags in place of directories. Let's see the difference. - Micah Elliott

What is Tracker? Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices. Tracker uses W3C standards for RDF ontologies using Nepomuk with SPARQL to query and update the data. Tracker is a central repository of user information, that provides two big benefits for the user; shared data between applications and information which is relational to other information (for example: mixing contacts with files, locations, activities and etc.). - Micah Elliott

Flickr’s interestingness heuristics generate some lovely images. People visit every day and just click “Refresh” to see page after page of these. BUT… it’s much better just have these delivered right to your desktop as a wallpaper. Well, maybe you should just have pics of your cats going there, but these can be a little more inspirational. The cats shouldn’t get too jealous; they’ll love all the bugs! There’s a danger in coming to flickr every day to peruse interesting pics. And anyway, they’re too small there. So this little script recipe just puts one at random on your desktop every so often. It also puts a desktop notification describing the photo and location. - Micah Elliott

hyphenator is a pure Python module to hyphenate text using existing hyphenation dictionaries, like those used by OpenOffice.org. - Micah Elliott

Spaced repetition is a learning technique that incorporates increasing intervals of time between subsequent review of previously learned material; this exploits the psychological spacing effect. Alternative names include spaced rehearsal, expanding rehearsal, graduated intervals, repetition spacing, repetition scheduling, spaced retrieval and expanded retrieval.[1] - Micah Elliott

Nice formulae for computing the various indexes. - Micah Elliott

Wow, a lot of attention and some useful comments. - Micah Elliott

The following is a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books. A writer or publisher has many options when it comes to choosing a format for publication. While the average end-user might arguably simply want to read books, every format has its proponents. The myriad e-book formats are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Tower of eBabel".[1] - Micah Elliott

Build awesome realtime web and mobile apps Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality via WebSockets to web and mobile apps. - Micah Elliott

Share Presentations without the Mess Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online. Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience. View them on SpeakerDeck.com, or share them on any website with an embed code. - Micah Elliott

A CSS 3D slideshow tool for quickly creating good looking HTML presentations. Doesn't rely on any external libraries but highlight.js is included by default for code highlighting. - Micah Elliott

Find and level books with Book Wizard. Plus, get booktalks, lesson plans, author studies, videos, and discussion guides. - Micah Elliott

ThesisBuilders are tools to help students: Find a topic (see example topic questions?) Create a good thesis statement (see an example?) And generate an outline (see an example?) - Micah Elliott

Membean helps you build a persuasive vocabulary using content that engages your brain, and our Adaptive Reinforcement Engine ensures that you don't forget the words you learn. - Micah Elliott

Want immediate evaluation of a writing sample? Based on over 40 years of research, the celebrated PEG scoring software used in Utah Write provides instant scoring that shows the skill level of each writing sample. - Micah Elliott

epub2pdf is a command-line tool that quickly generates PDF files from EPUB ebooks. It allows the user to specify page size, fonts, margins, and default paragraph alignment. - Micah Elliott

A lightweight approach to building HTML5 applications with emphasis on elegance and simplicity. Instead of reinventing the wheel, brunch assembles awesome wheels: CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Stitch, Eco, Stylus & jQuery - Micah Elliott

A set of exercises for learning Clojure - Micah Elliott

Example app connecting spine to couchdb in a pure couchapp via kanso - Micah Elliott

A couchdb connector for backbone with support for real time changes. This is a Backbone.js connector that overrides Backbone's default sync-behavior and connects your app to your CouchDB so that you can RELAX and don't need to worry about (real-time) server-side code. - Micah Elliott

Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS - Micah Elliott

Natural Language Processing in Clojure (opennlp) - Micah Elliott

The Clojure Toolbox A categorised directory of libraries and tools for Clojure - Micah Elliott