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Brackets – Adobe's Open Source IDE for HTML/CSS/JavaScript in the works!

Adobe's Brackets is an open source code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Abobe assures that Brackets would provide a better experience for developers and designers than other IDE’s with the following key parameters…

Tools shouldn't get in your way. Instead of cluttering up your coding environment with lots of panels and icons, the Quick Edit UI in Brackets puts context-specific code and tools inline.
Brackets is in sync with your browser. With Live Development, Brackets works directly with your browser to push code edits instantly, set breakpoints, and jump back and forth between your real source code and the browser view.
Do it yourself. Because Brackets is open source, and built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you can help build the best code editor for the web.

As the IDE is in the very early stages of its development, it's not yet ready for general use. It might be missing many basic editor features, and probably has bugs. Adobe invites the open source community to contribute and built the best code editor of the web.

Although Brackets is built in HTML/CSS/JS, it currently runs as a desktop application in a thin native shell, so that it can access your local files. (If you just try to open the index.html file in a browser, it won’t work yet.) The native shell for Brackets lives in a separate repo, adobe/brackets-app, which includes this repo as a submodule.

HTTPie – A Handy cURL for Humans

HTTPie is an open source CLI HTTP utility created by Jakub Roztocil, to get rid of the dissatisfaction he had with the existing tools. This tools primary purpose is to make CLI interaction with HTTP-based services as human-friendly as possible.

HTTPie does so by providing an http command that permits issuing arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax and displaying colorized responses:

Under the hood, HTTPie uses the excellent Requests and Pygments Python libraries. HTTPie 0.1.6 is a free package available under a BSD License. Read More…

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Anki – spaced repetition flashcard system to learn & retain technical knowledge

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example: