In this post, we have gathered latest development resources/tools that are useful for web developers to speed up their development. From the multitude of tools, apps and jQuery plugins that are present here, we hope you will find those that can be of help to you, depending on what projects you are working on and what specialization you have.
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Touch Gesture Animations For Product Demos – Precomposed Touch-device Gestures
A set of basic, precomposed touch-device gestures in a neatly organized zip file for you to use in product demos or presentations. These gestures are available as raw Quicktime animations. They’ll work in your video editor, and Photoshop.
jQuery Plugin for Friendly Way of Displaying Time Updates – tidyTime.js
A jQuery plugin, that provides a more friendly way of displaying time updates to users.
tidyTime.js takes any regular time and changes it into more human friendly dialogue such as it’s just gone noon, it’s just gone 25 to 6? and more. By adding additional text before and after the time you are able to create powerful friendly interaction with users.
Source Tree
SourceTree is a client app for Github and Mercurial version control system. It allows you to manage your repositories in a very simple and intuitive User Interface. It is the perfect app for people who are not comfortable of doing Version Control through Command line.
Desktop Compiler For Less, Sass, Compass And CoffeeScript – Koala
Koala is a GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers to use them more efficient.Koala can run in windows, linux and mac.
Topcoat
Recently Adobe introduced a CSS Framework that aims for performance, called Topcoat. It is equipped with a some additional components like UI, a set of icons, and a PSD to craft your design before getting into the codes.
Flipclock JS
Flipclock is a jQuery plugin to build a clock with the flipping effect. You can use this library as a normal clock showing the current time, a timer that shows how much time has been passed, or a countdown timer, like those displayed in a “Coming Soon” page. The output is customizable through CSS and extendable with the provided APIs.
Picksum Ipsum
Bored with Lorem ipsum? Try out Picksum Ipsum, a dummy text generator tool that generates the lines from legendary Hollywood actors, Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman (and Jim Carrey). If you are a designer as well as a movie fan, Picksum Ipsum can help you mix things up a bit.
Dev Tools Secret
All modern browsers come with its own Dev Tool that helps developers develop and debug the website. But there are so many more buried features that we do not know of. The Dev Tools Secret, as the name implies, lists the hidden features of the browser’s Dev Tool.
Swiper
Swiper is a free content/image slider that is optimized for mobile. It is responsive, and has support for touch interaction. It is a lightweight library which is only 6.5 Kb, and runs fast as it does not require a third-party library like jQuery to work.
Ruby Library for Programmatically Reading and Writing Photoshop Format (PSD) – PSD.rb
The Photoshop file format is over 23 years old, yet it remains one of the most opaque file formats out there. PSDs are very widely used, yet Adobe has never produced an easy way for developers to work with the format. Indeed, some developers have gone mad trying to parse PSDs.
PSD.rb is an open source Ruby library for reading and writing PSDs. You’ll find a robust, modern, and fast way to programmatically access Photoshop documents. It’s a real pleasure to work with. This represents the most mature and up-to-date way to access Photoshop documents, outside of using Photoshop itself.
Wirekit
If you develop for iPhone frequently, Wirekit may come in handy. It is a collection of free iPhone UI in a form of Photoshop layers and shapes. The collection consists of 60 most commonly used UI components, and available in two styles. With Wirekit, wireframing an iPhone app becomes faster and easier.
WP Fill
When building a WordPress theme, we have to ensure that the elements within our posts and pages are displayed correctly. For this reason, we need some dummy text to fill in the post. If you prefer, you can write it on your own. Or you can use WP Fill to generate the whole content or only the particular elements that you only need.
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