drx: Recent Additions

FireScope

2009-01-29T07:22:02Z

An excellent compliment to the relaunch of SitePoint Reference, this FireBug extension adds quick access to HTML and CSS documentation. The search as you type feature is handy, and the results include code examples. JavaScript is MIA as of this writing.

SitePoint Reference

2009-01-29T05:38:12Z

The relaunch of SitePoint Reference is welcome back indeed. HTML, CSS, and a brand new JavaScript section by "Brothercake," are all covered in-depth, the interface is clean and easy to navigate, and the content is thorough and well written. Nice work SP.

jQuery UI

2009-01-16T05:41:38Z

Provides abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets. Built on top of the jQuery JavaScript library, you can use it to build highly interactive Web applications. Hosted by Google Code Ajax API.

Selenium

2009-01-13T22:11:14Z

Selenium is a suite of tools to automate Web application testing across many platforms. Primarily, it is a Firefox extension that records an interactive user session with your application. You can then play back this session to observe the user's actions.

Trac Wiki Engine

2009-01-07T08:54:02Z

The wiki engine behind the Trac SCM Project. Also written in Python, is based largely on MoinMoin and other popular wikis. Built on top of the Genshi templating engine, it is extensible through macros and other plugins, as is the rest of the Trac system.

MoinMoin Wiki Engine

2009-01-07T08:25:23Z

An advanced, yet simple to install and easy to use, wiki engine written in Python. There are a number of ready to install extensions, or you can roll your own if you know some Python. The markup language is also easy to use, an all-around great package.

IPython

2009-01-07T03:08:01Z

An enhanced, open-source interactive Python shell and an architecture for exploratory parallel computing. Includes features for object introspection, system access, and its own special command system for adding functionality when working interactively.

Pygments

2009-01-07T02:09:20Z

An excellent source code syntax highlighting package written in Python and thus designed for Python applications, although the latter is not a requirement. It supports a wide range of languages and markup formats, and new languages are easily added.

Seahorse

2008-12-30T21:36:08Z

A Gnome frontend to GnuPG. It integrates with Nautilus, Gedit and other places for encryption operations. You can create and manage PGP and SSH keys, publish and retrive keys from key servers, cache your passphrase, backup your keys and keyring, and more.

FireGPG

2008-12-30T21:14:50Z

A Firefox extension that adds an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any Web page using GnuPG. FireGPG supports Gmail and detects PGP blocks in any page (for example a publickey), and lets you easily manage these blocks.

GnuPG

2008-12-30T20:58:06Z

Gnu Privacy Guard is a free command-line implementation of the OpenPGP standard. GnuPG allows you to encrypt and sign your email and data files, it features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kinds of publickey directories.

OpenPGP

2008-12-30T20:45:15Z

OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard in the world. It is defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the IETF Proposed Standard RFC 4880. It was originally derived from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), first created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991.

HTML Entity Character Lookup

2008-12-25T04:56:00Z

There are countless character entity sites out there, and I sometimes forget which one(s) I prefer. This Firefox extension eliminates that issue. Simply open it from the Tools menu and start typing the name or code point and you get a list of matches.

Stack Overflow

2008-12-23T04:02:39Z

Have a programming question or just want to show off your own expertise? Stack Overflow is a free question and answer site where developers collaborate and help solve each other's problems. Part wiki, part forum, part blog, it's an interesting concept.

Genshi

2008-12-22T03:00:55Z

First developed for the Trac issue tracking system, Genshi is a Python templating system. Featuring automatic escaping, multiple markup output formats, and if you don't need all the power of the full-blown engine, a simple text-based template language.

Wikitext

2008-12-20T07:00:50Z

Wikitext is the markup language used by the MediaWiki system, which was originally developed for Wikipedia and is now distributed as a sophisticated open-source wiki platform. The language should look familiar, however MediaWiki is a complex wiki package.

LaTeX

2008-12-20T04:24:12Z

A document markup language and preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Used mostly in academia, it's widely known for marking up sophisticated mathematical expressions. TeX was developed by Donald Knuth, if you don't know who that is go away.

reStructuredText

2008-12-20T03:33:43Z

An easy-to-read, plain text markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple Web pages, and for standalone documents. reStructuredText is the engine behind Docutils.

Textile

2008-12-20T01:48:35Z

The markup language used by the Texpattern CMS/Blogware package. I'm beginning to wonder when someone is going to try and unify and standardize these languages. Many of them are very similar, it seems silly to have to remember slightly different syntax.

FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension

2008-12-19T23:08:55Z

FireBug has become an application within an application, and just like its big daddy Firefox, FireBug supports extensions. The latest addition, from the creator of jQuery, does just what you think it would: brings unit testing to JavaScript development.