The absolute worst testers you can possibly have a…

The absolute worst testers you can possibly have are developers. They’re better than nothing. But barely. Even a mediocre tester will make your application better, and by proxy, encourage you to become a better developer. The very best testers will drag you, kicking and screaming if necessary, across the bug-bar threshold. Professional testers force you to become a better developer. Sometimes it’s painful. But in a good way, like a heavy workout.

Jeff Atwood

ADWiki

ADWiki

Online documentation system for JavaScript projects that adhere to JSDoc API documentation format.  Includes:

  • Tools for parsing JSDoc blocks in the JavaScript files
  • Clean documentation website based on Twitter Bootstrap
  • Simple blog engine integrated with the site, where developers can commend and extend project documentation.

Requires Node.js and MySQL.

PHPDoc to GitHub wiki

About a month ago I came across an interesting question over at StackOverflow.  Emanuele Minotto was asking if anybody knows of any easy way to integrate PHPDocumentor with GitHub’s wiki.  It seemed like a really good idea, so I dug around, but didn’t find anything ready made.  PHPDoc’s manual however suggests that things are possible.  Unfortunately, I’m too busy currently to get involved in it myself, but I am really glad to see that Emanuele didn’t abandon the idea and started the project at GitHub.  If that’s something that you are interested in, I strongly suggest lending a helping hand.  I’m sure there are plenty of people who’d welcome this integration.