We talk a lot about project management tools, but mostly on how to setup your own personal project management systems. As project teams are becoming more and more distributed and our work becomes more and more digital, it's important that we have good team-based project management tools to augment our personal productivity systems. Here are 5 project management tools that will ensure your team stays on track.

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Taking on a large project can be both exciting and intimidating, particularly if you're a solo developer. Big builds can be a lot of fun and serve as great learning experiences.

What are websockets and why would you use websockets?

(Thanks to Chris Lee for the link) - Introduction JavaScript's rising popularity has brought with it a lot of changes, and the face of web development today is dramatically different. The things that we can do on the web nowadays with JavaScript running on the server, as well as in the browser, were hard to imagine just several years ago, or were encapsulated within sandboxed environments like Flash or Java Applets.

This list of well-known port numbers specifies the port used by the server process as its contact port. In TCP/IP and UDP networks, a port is an endpoint to a logical connection and the way a client program specifies a specific server program on a computer in a network.

Summary: Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions. Knowing when to use each method can be understood by mapping them in 3 key dimensions and across typical product development phases.

Make the user sign in through Ajax to improve user experience.

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) architecture behind WWW and key principles: Identifiable resources, links and hypermedia, standard methods, multiple representations and stateless communication.

Thanks to Andrew Wallace for the link

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Keep your API keys secret from your public Github repository

Discussed by PJ Hughes in class on Fri 05/16