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Exciting Projects I Watched In February

Posted: March 6th, 2010 | Author: Jerod | Filed under: GitHub Watch | Comments

Another month, another handful of great open-source projects I found on GitHub. Let’s get straight to it, shall we?

RLOfflineDataStore – A simple Cappuccino wrapper for html5 offline data storage.

SlickGrid – A lightening fast JavaScript grid/spreadsheet. Finding a quality client-side grid tool is tough. This might just be one.

Textmate-Minimap – A minimap plugin for TextMate. So great for those overly sized source documents we all hate to admit we have.
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Exciting Projects I Watched In January

Posted: February 2nd, 2010 | Author: Jerod | Filed under: GitHub Watch | Comments

One 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:
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