JavaScript Tools
jQuery Plugins
- http://www.awkwardgroup.com/sandbox/awkward-showcase-a-jquery-plugin/
- Very cool show case, slides can be interactive.
- http://jamielottering.github.com/DropKick/
- Cleaner drop-downs
- http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/
- Knob style controls
- http://www.designchemical.com/lab/jquery-drill-down-menu-plugin/examples/
- Drill down. Lets the user move up and down through a tree
- http://duopixel.com/extremes/
- Simple, just places links in a circle
- http://zikes.github.com/circle-menu/examples/
- Circular menus - I really like the nested in a corner example, that could be really cool.
- http://prinzhorn.github.com/skrollr/
- This is just cool - I'm not sure how easy it would be to work with, but it could be really good.
- http://masonry.desandro.com/
- http://yconst.com/web/freetile/
- This could help with some of my CSS frustration
- http://gridster.net/
- Draggable grid
- http://www.jqplot.com/
- Every type of graph EVAR
- http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored
- Slides in javascript
Development Tools
Frameworks
In working on my Tasks program, I began to realize how badly I needed a framework. I initially tried to handle the organization myself with a Core and a UI connected by listeners, but I couldn't get anything I was really happy with and even the decent attempts would not have scaled well.
Backbone
Library of utilities not a framework. Meh, looks very MVCish, not the dynamic environment I want.
Knockout
MVVM, sounds pretty good. Microsoft pushing it so hard makes me wary.
Spine
Lightweight.
Sammy
Also light, basic structure