So inspired by the ASIS&T Cool Tool Day, I thought it’d be neat to do one of these since there weren’t many volunteers to do lightning talks/presentations at the code4lib Toronto meetup this time around. Our attendance was a little… paltry, but we had some great presentations! Here are my notes from the session.
Presented by @waharnum
- working with REST based web services
- testing automation tool for web services
- best for building with other API
- autogenerate stubs using WSDL
- interface between internal systems
- good for documenting web services, code style with examples
- normally, mostly used for unit testing
- virtual card based whiteboard
- flexible for planning based
- collaborative
- great usability/UI
- even has mobile apps
- maintaining HTML email templates
- also works as a crazy text editor for nerds
XSL Transforms plugin in Firefox
- local reporting
- anything XSLT with just a few security restrictions
- e.g. SVN reporting
Presented by @adr
- cross platform presentation
- push from laptop to another computer
Sidenote: Other Presentation Tools
- deck.js
- Impress.js (like Prezi)
Presented by @ruebot
VIM Plugins
- pathogen – linking for VIM plugins to automatically load VIM plugins
- nerdtree – pull files quickly by displaying directory/tree
Presented by Pomax
Thimble HTML/CSS Live Web editor
- teach anyone (kids, adults) HTML and CSS
- use existing projects to make it fun!
- easy inline flickr search of CC images
- attribution in alt text
Presented by me
- monitor hue changer, supposedly to help people sleep better by telling your body what time of day it is
That’s it! Hope to do another one of these or lightning talks next time.