With all the frameworks and abstractions out there nowadays, it’s not surprising that developers don’t write web applications in PHP or raw Javscript as often as they used to. It’s awesome to consider the rapid development of ideas possible nowadays.

As responsibilities continue to grow, I’m finding myself needing to embrace more streamlined approaches to my work flow to really accomplish this year’s aspirations. It’s caused me a bit of stressful transition, but ultimately pushed me to leverage automation, quick reference, and the other standard trappings of an overloaded programmer.

I always found it a bit curious to see newer web developers completely shy away from PHP when starting out, and jumping on the Ruby or Django bandwagons, but after working more and more with frameworks… I’m beginning to see why. Things that yesteryear might’ve taken dozens of lines of code are doable without breaking a sweat. Gotta love progress.

Not really a point to this point besides one of those rhetorical -face/palms- we all do once in a while when we really step back and evaluate how productivity can be improved. Anyways, lots of big projects coming up that will really benefit from this, and I’m looking forward to some of the product announcements that will be coming up as a result.

Behind almost every successful web application, there is an easy-to-use & feature-rich API as they simply help the main application to spread into others & reached by more users.

Also, an API-enabled application can be easily developed further using the API itself.

In order to create an API for your web application, here are 10 tutorials to get you started. But before that, you may want to checkout the video: How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters by Google.

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/how-to-create-an-api-10-tutorials/

Found this great little guy for when I need a streaming video player for projects. You could write your own, but why spend the time and have less features? this little player is awesome!

http://flowplayer.org/

Simple Viewer is always great for those minimalistic but uber-professional image galleries. Always loved for its visual impact.

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/