Exciting Projects I Watched In January
Posted: February 2nd, 2010 | Author: Jerod | Filed under: GitHub Watch | CommentsOne of my favorite GitHub features is the ability to find and track the progress of projects that interest me. I’ve decided to post the new projects I find each month on this blog since there is a high likelihood that you and I have common interests (Hey, I’m curating something on the internet!).
So I wrote a little script using the GitHub API to track which new projects I watch during each month. I watched 17 new projects in January. They are linked below along with their authors’ descriptions and some commentary of my own:
BirdWatch – “Twitter search client written in MacRuby.” I’m dying to give MacRuby a go, especially now that it has hit 0.5.
CPVideoKit – “Cappuccino & Objective-J wrapper for the YouTube JavaScript API.” I love all the stuff coming out of the Cappuccino community lately.
Cappuccino-Test-Extensions – “A group of extensions, classes, and more that aid developers in testing Cappuccino applications.”
EKImageReflection – “With EKImageReflection you can extend a regular CPImageView for displaying a reflection on it’s bottom.”
PNGSquash – “A PNG compressor app for OS X.” Great tool for pre-processing images for web use.
coffee-script – “Unfancy JavaScript.” This is easily the most active project I follow. Dude codes all day and night.
delayed_paperclip – “Process your Paperclip attachments in the background with delayed_job.” A nice implementation joining two of my favorite Rails-related gems.
has_scope – “Maps controller filters to your resource scopes.” Super-useful for filtering on index actions.
jQuery-Lint – “jQuery Lint is a simple script you can download and use with jQuery. It works over the top of jQuery and diligently reports errors and any incorrect usage of jQuery.” – I want this to support Web Inspector.
jubilator – “Browse public GitHub repos in style!” Great for when you don’t want to clone a repo just to grok its source.
makers-mark – “Syntax highlight your markdown.” Could be useful for statically generated blogging.
nested_form – “Rails plugin to conveniently handle multiple models in a single form.” ‘Nuff said.
node-mongodb-native – “Mongo DB Native NodeJS Driver.” Two technologies I’m looking for an excuse to play with.
rack-rewrite – “A web server agnostic rack middleware for defining and applying rewrite rules. In many cases you can get away with Rack::Rewrite instead of writing Apache mod_rewrite rules.”
showoff – “the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love.” Bold claim. We’ll see.
twitter-node – “node.js lib that creates a streaming connection with twitter and pushes any incoming statuses to a tweet event.” Could be a good learning tool.
webme – “Convert your README into a Website.” Uhm, yes please!
That wraps it up for January. I hope you find one or more of these open-source projects interesting. Stay tuned for next month’s list and follow me on GitHub to follow along!