Welcome
Dev tips, resources and tools that I came across one day and wanted to share. Updated multiple times a week. Feel free to make some suggestions !
As this page grows, I will probably change the sections or create separate, dedicated pages by themes.
See also the separate pages like Mac or VSCode.
Table of Contents
- Welcome
- Resources/Assets (OpenData, Pictures, Audio, 3D Models…)
- Languages, Frameworks, Tools
- IDEs, text editors
- Prototyping/Designing tools
- Other
- Better quality code tools
Resources/Assets (OpenData, Pictures, Audio, 3D Models…)
Unless specified, these are free resources.
OpenData
OpenData.swiss\ CERN Open Data Portal
3D Models
Free3D : free models Archive3D : free models Turbosquid : paid and free models
Audio
Freesound.org\ OpenMusicArchive.org
Textures
Textures.com My-textures.com : Free textures for personal and commercial use Myfreetextures.com Texturegen.com Texturelib.com Plaintextures.com
Languages, Frameworks, Tools
.NET
Naming Guidelines\ Naming conventions of the .NET framework : Capitalization conventions, general naming conventions, names of classes, interfaces, type members etc.
Android
Getting started
Android Jetpack: A set of libraries, tools and architectural guidance to help make it quick and easy to build Android apps.
Useful apps
AZ Screen Recorder\ Records the screen and the audio played on device.
CSS
CSS Diner : interactive learning of CSS selectors (how to select elements by their class, id, last element…). Flexible Box (Flexbox) MDN documentation
Docker
| Understand the concept of Image and Layer | About images, containers, and storage drivers |
Remove all containers, images, volumes
Stop all running containers : docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)\
docker system prune -a --volumes (documentation)
Java
Properties file
Simple tutorial to write and read properties file
Javascript
Best practices
JavaScript - The Right Way : Best practices for JS. Coding style, tools, frameworks…\ Idiomatic.js : A guide to write consistent, idiomatic JavaScript.
Interesting readings
JavaScript: The Good Parts [Douglas Crockford]
Misc
Javascript Bind
Really nice explanation about ‘Bind’ on SO\ bind() function documentation on MDN
LaTeX
todonotes : a simple way to add todo notes to a document. They appear on the right margin by default.
Markdown
CommonMark\ A strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown. Now also used by GitHub in place of GFM. Markdowntutorial.com: interactive tutorial for learning Markdown.
Inserting multiple empty lines
This can be done by using the non-breaking space character : \
(Alternatively, you can use <br>)
Node.js
List all packages that are installed as well as thier dependencies : npm list [-g] [--depth=0]
See outdated packages : npm [-g] outdate
PowerShell
posh-git: a PowerShell module that integrates Git and PowerShell by providing Git status summary information that can be displayed in the PowerShell prompt.\ posh-git also provides tab completion support for common git commands, branch names, paths and more.
Python
Enforce arguments to a specific list of values\ Generating list of lists
Regex
Regex Crossword : puzzle challenges from beginner to expert to learn and train Regex.
Regex101 : online regex editor and debugger. Allows to create, debug, test and have expressions explained for PHP, PCRE, Python, Golang and JavaScript.\ RegExr : Learn, build & test Regular Expressions.
Scala
Learning and Training
Scala Exercices\ Alvin Alexander’s Scala tutorials\ Twitter’s Scala School\ S-99 : Ninety-nine Scala Problems
Various Q&A
Q: What is the difference between == and .equals in Scala ?\ A: You normally use ==, it routes to equals, except that it treats nulls properly. Reference equality (rarely used) is eq. (source, other answers are also interesting)
Q: List concatenation, ::: vs ++ ?\ A: Answer (three first answers)
IDEs, text editors
IntelliJ
Plugins
.ignore\ Plugin for .*ignore files (e.g.: .gitignore). Files syntax highlight, coloring ignored files in the Project View, suggestion of default .gitignore file for new project, and other useful functionalities.
Unity3D (Game Engine)
Unity3D on Linux : Where to get the latest builds, release notes and known issues.
Special folder names in Assets folder\ Explain for example the special “Resources” folder.\ StreamingAssets folder : Any files placed in a folder called StreamingAssets (case-sensitive) in a Unity project will be copied verbatim to a particular folder on the target machine.[…]
VIM
VIM Adventures: a game to learn VIM
Visual Studio Code
=> See the dedicated VS Code section.
Prototyping/Designing tools
Balsamiq wireframing\ Ziteboard online collaborative whiteboard
Other
Stuffs that needs to be ordered one time…
Pandoc.org : a universal document converter. Converts files from various markup format into another.
Git
How to write a git commit message: A must-read article on good practices about writing useful, nice git commit messages. (Thanks @jcavat for sharing !)
Aliases
Must have Git Aliases : nice samples of git aliases. Basic shortcuts are also listed at the end.
.gitignore templates
GitHub’s templates collection\ The .gitignore templates as offered in the GitHub.com interface when creating new repositories and files.
gitignore.io\ Just type the name of the IDE or programming language and get the corresponding .gitignore file.
Configure pull to use rebase
git config pull.rebase true # for current repository, add `--global` for all
Reduce the size of .git folder
git gc
This command remove unnecessary files and optimize the local repository. See git-gc manual page
Clone only one branch
git clone -b branch_name --single-branch https://domain.com/repo.git
Filenames capitalization
Changing capitalization of filenames in Git
GitHub
DownGit: tired of cloning a whole repository when you just need some specific files/folders ? Just past the link to the resource you need and DownGit will make a .zip file of it, ready to download.\
Removing sensitive data from a repository
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages examples Dr. Jekyll’s Themes: jekyll themes directory
Licenses
Choose a license : simple explanations to help choosing the appropriate license for a project.
Miscellaneous
How to know if a string is a MD5 or a SHA1 checksum
It depends of the length : 128-bit sequence (32 hexadecimal digits) => possible MD5 hash, 160-bit (40 hex digits) sequence => possible SHA1 hash.
Interesting Open Source Repos
Microsoft Open Source : all the open-source repos from Microsoft. Personal selection :
Slack
Nice tools
Better quality code tools
Code coverage, CI…
Coveralls: Shows which part of code aren’t covered by the test suite. Free for open source repos.