Code Sharing Tools

I added some code sharing tools recently and wanted to give you the scoop. I use two: One is Github’s tools for sharing code and it’s called Gist. The other is a pretty widely used markdown display tool that has a bunch of nice features (like coloring text and showing line numbers) which is Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter. Hopefully one or both works for you too!

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Google Javascript Style Guide

Have you ever been curious as to the common practices of others? I certainly have been. A friend of mine spotted a Google Javascript Style Guide the other day which gives a heads up for a lot of pre-defined practices that are being used. You’ll likely be familiar with a few of these, but you might just pick up a thing or two (I did).

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Great Mac Text Editor

At work I’m constantly dealing with HTML, CSS, and JS files so a good text editor goes a long way. I’ve been using TextMate for some time, but recently a colleague discovered a text editor called Sublime Text 2. It does a lot of the same things TextMate does and even uses alot of the same TextMate bundles.

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SOF Champs

I was looking around Stack Overflow tonight and decided I’d look at the people with the most “reputation” (reputation let’s others know how much a person has participated in SOF’s online community). I’ve seen this guy before- he seems to have a knack for good answers and intriguing questions. Check out Jon Skeet on Stack Overflow.

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