via @mrflip. This breakdown matches my experiences, both good and bad, perfectly. Anyone running a startup or thinking about it should read this fully. Those in a larger company could learn a lot as well – these principles work for small teams within a larger organization, which are often a business within a business.
development
Showoff
This is slick, and falls into the “I can’t believe it didn’t already exist” category. “Showoff is a service that allows a locally run server on any port to be accesible on the public Internet. It creates a public URL for a server on localhost that you can share with anyone. All requests to that url are tunneled to your workstation.”
Solarized
A ” sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications…[designed] with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions.”
Google Feed API
“How do I start?
Sign up for a API key
Read the developer documentation
Play with the API in the Code Playground
With the Feed API, you can download any public Atom, RSS, or Media RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.”
Android Interaction Design Patterns
ProgrammableWeb
A “database of over 2000 open web APIs and thousands of applications people have built with them “