Programming

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Which platforms do you currently develop applications for? Which platforms do you find are the best in terms of community, documentation, and ease of use?

Placecast MatchAPI is a Rosetta Stone for location data, translating addresses from different location data sources and resolving them to the one correct place. The Placecast MatchAPI resolves the two most challenging problems of working with large location-based data sets. First, it disambiguates addresses by identifying all of the different ways to express the address of a location and verifying that those differing expressions refer to the same place. Second, it maps all the relevant IDs from your different content providers to that same place so that it is always referred to correctly by any other system.

Take a walk through the woods and learn about all things HTML5. Starting with the JS APIS (selector API, storage, appcache, web workers, web sockets, notifications, drag and drop, and geolocation). Then delve into the new HTML semantic tags, link relations, micro data, ARIA, forms, audio and video, Canvas, and WebGL. Finally, the holy trinity finishes with CSS and selectors, fonts, text, columns, stroking, opacity, HSL, rounded corners, gradients, shadows, backgrounds, transitions, transforms, and animations.

Matt Nowack has taken the awesome HTML5 presentation app in HTML5, which is open source, and has created a presentation discussing jQuery 1.4. It is good stuff, using the fact that you can embed the features that you want to show. Just as long as you can hit the right arrow to get through the "look at all the people who use jQuery" part (we get it! lots of people use jQuery!)

PNG HTML5 DOM CSS3 CSS2 SVG Canvas http://caniuse.com/#agents=All&eras=All&cats=PNG,HTML5,DOM,CSS3,Other,CSS2,SVG,Summary&statuses=rec,pr,cr,wd,ietf

search API returns links and facts. Another way Factery is different is that you decide the sources to use. You can search Twitter, Digg, or a standard search engine. All you need are pages containing a list of links and Factery does the rest.

FlexibleRules aims at supporting the design and editing of computer board games by introducing a simplified programming model and set of software tools. Seems well documented with examples, tutorials

Source code documentation generator tool. Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.

"BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python."

"Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata of images in various formats. Exiv2 is available as free software and with a commercial license, and is used in many projects."

SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins.

Auto Complete Mode is the most intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs. 

Here is a list of the major programming languages used to write games along with descriptions, advantages, and disadvantages. Hopefully this list will help you make a decision.